This Excelsior carriage house is not at all what you would expect from the outside. While only 15 feet wide, this home has been expanded into a modern 1370 square foot home w/ an open, loft like living space on the ground floor that opens with a wall of glass into the beautiful garden retreat. The polished cement floors with their built in radiant heat are always warm on your feet. The oversized glass doors out to the garden fold away to allow perfect harmony of indoor/outdoor living. At the heart of the home is a double ceiling height atrium which brings in light and also contains a white oak staircase which perfectly matches the wood of the kitchen cabinets. There is a lovely half bath on this level, a stacked washer drying tucked into a closet, as well as a one car garage with EV charging plug and a little extra storage.
The airy, modern staircase leads you upstairs into the open den, which was formally the living room. The atrium skylights and side windows let light into the den and there is a wood burning fireplace as well for cooler winter days. There are two spacious bedrooms at either end of the house facing east and west as well as a recently renovated full bath with shower over full sized tub. The white oak of the staircase is continued throughout this level.
Located in the Excelsior District, one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods, this home has great access to the shops and cafes of Mission Street, McClaren and Balboa Park, Bart, and 280.
Features
- 1915 Carriage house converted into a charming, modern Excelsior home.
- 2 full bedrooms plus den and 1.5 baths
- Contemporary open floor plan on the main level with high ceilings
- Kitchen features white oak cabinets, stainless appliances and a quartz counter
- Fold away glass doors from the living room out into the beautifully landscaped garden for seamless indoor/outdoor living
- Wonderful Excelsior location just two blocks from the rich Casbah of Upper Mission Street's shops and cafes and easy access to Balboa bart and 280
- 1 car garage with EV charging plug and extra storage
Improvements Added
- Full downstairs build out
- New kitchen
- New front door
- Dug down for high ceilings on first level
- New interior doors
- Installed New upstairs bathroom
- New and renovated hardwood floors upstairs
- Installed a new staircase with white oak to match stairs and kitchen cabinets
- Upgraded Electrical
- Added Car Charging Station in Garage
- Added laundry in closet on first floor
- Radiant Heat in cement floors downstairs and under hardwood floors upstairs
- New Eco boiler for radiant heat
- Added sump pump in garage
- Fiberglass Windows with sound reduction (thicker glass)
- Aluminum clad downstairs door that opens fully to outside
- Outdoor concrete patio plumbed for radiant heat if expansion desired
- New metal entry gate
- New garage door
- Garage storage system
- New outdoor lights
- New yard
- Chicken Coop
- New Interior Paint
- Painted exterior 2 years ago
- New roof 7 years ago
- WIFI Abode security system
- Motorized blind in living
- WIFI Nest heat and smoke alarms
- Lutron Cassetta WiFi light switches on first floor
- WiFi garage door opener for Amazon key
- Structural retrofit in back of house (shear walls, grade beams, steel hardie panels, new footings)
What the owners have loved about the house -
- Easy access garden and indoor/outdoor living
- Walk to school
- Walk to the Library
- McClaren Park
- The New Balboa Park Pool
- Walk to Bart
- Flat Street in SF
- High Walk Score - 93 (Walker's Paradise)
Mission St Cafes We Love
- Food
- Taqueria Guadalajara
- Pineapples
- Dark Horse Tavern
- Tai Pho
- Hawaiian Drive In BBQ
- Gentilly
- Hwaro
- Tao Sushi
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