T.J. Oshie sells McLean home

There’s a lot of movement in Langley Farms.

The estate of Washington Capitals’ star T.J. Oshie — the home he and his wife acquired in 2017 from Boston Properties’ executive Ray Ritchey — sold in mid-September for $6.4 million, six months after the Oshies paid $7.4 million for a larger property in the same exclusive McLean community. Sherif Abdalla of Compass was the listing agent for the 8,200-square-foot Oshie home.

The buyers of Oshie’s five-bedroom former home are Kirk Galiani, founder and co-chairman of US Fitness, and his wife, Maria, of Galiani Design Group. They, too, are current Langley Farms homeowners, and they're downsizing in a big way — their 16,000-square-foot mansion at 1113 Langley Lane, which also serves as the headquarters of Galiani Design Group, just hit the market for an asking price of $13.5 million, listed by Will Thomas and Mark Lowham of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. It is among the most expensive properties currently available in Greater Washington.

"We’re going to miss this house. We love it. It’s a great family home," Maria Galiani said.

The youngest of the couple's three children recently graduated from high school. They're now empty-nesters, and when the Oshie home became available, they jumped at it. It's a neighborhood property Maria Galiani has always loved, she said.

"The Oshies modernized it," she said. "I’ll just design it to make it my own, our own home for the needs that we have. It’s a great home with great bones."

As for 1113 Langley, the Galianis bought that property in 2005, tore down the home there and spent roughly five years building the new one, inspired "by the sublime country houses of the English Cotswolds and French countryside," per the listing. The seven-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-bath home, constructed by Galileo Group, sits on 1.26 acres. The exteriors, per the listing "were hand-crafted from 300 tons of foundational field stone primarily sourced from century old structures along the Oregon Trail."

It features antique elements and vintage hardware that Maria Galiani scoured the globe for, from the fireplace shipped from a castle in France and the antique iron wall grills to the Dalle du Bourgogne limestone, barn wood beams and reclaimed Provencal terra cotta.

"I like pieces that nobody else can have," she said.

Among its amenities: primary suite with private office and two walk-in closets, double-height dining room, two-story library with spiral staircase, indoor sports court with antique oak suspended spring floors (which doubles as an entertainment pavilion), second-floor media and game room, professional gym and wine cellar. There is a safe room, geothermal heating, four-car garage and manicured grounds designed by landscape architect Charles Owens.

Source: Washington Business Journal