Mike and Leslie McCabe usually focus their energy on remodeling homes in Cherry Hills Village.

But the Scandinavian-design home at 950 S. Steele St. in Denver’s Belcaro neighborhood caught their attention.

The large home on a nearly half-acre lot felt cold and run down, but the McCabes believed they could make better use of its clean, straight lines and large windows.

“It needed the love it deserved,” Mike McCabe said.

In February, the couple bought it for $4.4 million and got to work, transforming the 9,500-square-foot mansion into what they’ve dubbed the Golden Hour Haus.

Now, they’re selling it. Mike McCabe, who works for The Agency-Denver, listed it for $8.8 million.

The McCabes, through their company, McCabe Ln. Homes, fully remodeled the mansion constructed in 2007.

“We wanted

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