This home near the Oasis restaurant has the feel of an Italian castle, with five bedrooms and amenities galore.

The stone-and-stucco-encased Italian castle at 7113 Cielo Azul Pass overlooks the heavily treed hills and valleys of a nature preserve close to the Oasis restaurant.

Set in the new Villa Monta?a gated neighborhood, the house is also gated. Stone walls create an intimate front courtyard.

The house is owned by former Covert Buick General Manager Scott Utterback and his wife, Brittany, who have left Austin for the Houston area. The Utterbacks moved into the home built by Curtis Woodyard of Ashdon Homes in October 2008.

The 5,771-square-foot home offers five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms. The Utterbacks put it on the market at the beginning of December for $1,895,000. Kathryn Scarborough Bechtol of Turnquist Partners Realtors has the listing.

Entering the arched Old World wooden gate, guests head down a stone path. At one side, steps lead up to a casita with a guest bedroom, walk-in closet and full bathroom and its own private balcony. At the other side, steps lead down to the house and its custom Durango doors of wrought iron and glass.

Carved limestone columns and marble floors mark the foyer. Step into the living room with its limestone fireplace and rich hand-scraped, antique oak engineered hardwood floors. Three sets of arched mahogany and glass doors lead out to the backyard patio and pool.

The octagonal dining room offers a three-sided window looking out onto the backyard. Dark brown walls set off the chandelier. The family room on the other side of the living room also has hardwood floors, doors leading out to the backyard and a limestone fireplace.

The backyard features multiple levels of patio and a negative-edge ionized pool with a hot tub. A pathway across the pool connects separate areas of the patio. Part of the patio has a grill and refrigerator for outdoor entertaining.

At one side of the backyard, a separate patio area flows off the master bedroom suite. The bedroom offers an enormous window overlooking the pool and the nature preserve. In the bathroom, two separate marble vanities in the bathroom sit in front of large rounded mirrors. An alcove offers a seated makeup counter. Steps lead up to the large bathtub. The shower room features a bench, river rock floor and dual shower heads.

The large walk-in closet boasts built-in drawers, a marble-topped center island with additional drawers and a wall of shoe racks. The room has a chandelier and three-angled full-length mirror.

The closet leads to the office with built-in shelves and drawers and doors to the front patio of the house.

On the other side of the house, the family room, breakfast nook and kitchen double as one great room. In the kitchen, a large granite island with a mahogany base doubles as an eat-up bar. The island also provides a vegetable sink. The kitchen's main sink looks out onto the breakfast nook and its window view of the pool and the Hill Country.

Near the kitchen, steps lead up to the wine room with its own door to the outside, built-in wine racks, stone columns along the walls and a wrought-iron chandelier. Scott Utterback uses this room as a poker room.

The house offers a three-car garage and a porte-coch?re. Extra storage is found in the garage, a storage room and under the stairs.

A circular staircase leads to the second story and its media room. On one side of the room sits a built-in shelving unit with a minibar.

Two bedrooms on this side of the upstairs share a bathroom, each with its own toilet area. A third bedroom on the other side of the second story offers its own full bathroom with a marble vanity and a balcony.

"It's a gorgeous home, flawless," says Matthew Everett, a real estate agent who works with Bechtol. "There's nothing awkward about this house."

photography by Trey Hunter