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sushipup2

Magical home in Berkeley

2 years ago

This house has history, too. It's charming! I'd take it in a heartbeat.


https://www.54tamalpais.com/

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  • 2 years ago
    last modified: 2 years ago

    So interesting! Thanks for sharing this listing. I grew up in the Berkeley Hills perhaps a mile from here, so am quite familiar with this truly lovely area. Locally, Tamalpais Road is considered to be a particularly “magical” street, with many beautiful older homes and is a very coveted and desirable area; each home on this winding road is full of Berkeley history. I have often fantisized about living there myself! That said, although I like the more traditional brown shingle cottage very much (beautiful), I don’t find the main house very appealing-I’m not a fan of the exterior design, the bright green and blue accents, the curves, all the interior stairs. The exterior design of the main house is quite unusual for a 1917 Berkeley home-like a house on top of a house on top of a house! The setting is just wonderful. Not surprisingly, many homes in the Berkeley Hills have lots of stairs to enter, and that becomes problematic as the owners age. My own parents had a beautiful 1920s three story Italianate home not far from this one, and had to sell when they were in their early 70s (the age I am now :). installing an exterior stairlift was not an option- just too many stairs for that. From the street to their bedroom was it was probably the equivelent of a five stories! My husband and I considered buying the house from them, but realized it would only be a matter of time before we’d be facing the same situation. As an aside, my daughter is now an elementary school teacher at the school where Ann Turner, who designed this house, was a teacher.

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