Sweet 3 Bedroom with Bonus Room

$399,000

Open Sunday 13 Oct 2002 2-4 PM

Offers Tue 15 Oct 2002 5 PM

About our wonderful home...

Page Street is a tight neighborhood full of wonderful people.
Page Street is packed with friendly people. We've had street parties, mourned losses of loved ones and pets, pitched in to help one another, and celebrated new family additions together

Shopping
4th Street: A shopper’s heaven, it‘s a 5-minute walk from the house. The best shopping area in the East Bay, with lots of interesting stores, including Restoration Hardware, CP Shades, Peet’s coffee, Cody’s Books, Builder’s Booksource, Rabat Shoes, Aveda, The Gardener, Crate & Barrel outlet store, Pasta Shop, and LOTS MORE.
REI & Walgreens: At Gilman & San Pablo.
Smith & Hawken Store and Outlet, home furnishing stores, art gallery, Folk Store: In the complex at Gilman & 10th.
Title 9 Sports: State-of-the-art women’s sports store on 10th & Camelia.
Two-Star Dog Outlet: Nice hemp/linen/rayon clothes for men & women on 10th & Camelia.
Hida Tool: San Pablo & Gilman. The best Japanese gardening and woodworking tools selection in the Bay Area.
North Face & Royal Robbins Outlets: Both on Gilman, at 5th & 6th, respectively.
Truitt & White: One of the best hardware/lumber stores in the East Bay is at the south end of 4th Street shopping area.

More Neighborhood Stuff
Wild Parrots: A family of Conures lives in the palm tree at the corner of Page & 7th Streets. Every morning and evening you can hear them talking and see them flying around the neighborhood.
Art: Across 6th Street, artists’ studios abound. Lots of ceramics artists in this neighborhood, including a “paint-your-own” ceramics studio at Page & 4th.
Golden Gate Fields: If you like to watch horses run (and maybe place a bet), the racetrack is a 5 minute walk at the end of Gilman.
Bus Stop: At the corner of Page & 6th Street, you can catch a bus downtown or to BART.
Bike Paths: You can ride southwest to the Berkeley Marina or Northwest toward Richmond for hours. It’s flat most of the way!
Berkeley Marina: Walking or biking distance (10-15 minutes) to a great park, more restaurants, the Bay, sailing, and 4th of July fireworks.

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842 Page Work We've Done

On the west side next to the driveway:
We replaced gravel and kikuyu grass with an herb garden and shrubs.
We replaced a dilapidated back porch with a stone patio and redwood steps.

Inside the house:
Most of the house interior has been painted within the past year.
We installed all new weather stripping .
We installed wooden blinds in the living room and dining room.

Structural improvements:
Recent earthquake retrofitting makes the house sit tight (the retrofitters, and all the inspectors, told us this house is very solidly built and in great shape).
We ran power into the garage.
A new sewer pipe from the toilet to the street was installed four years ago.

842 Page's Magic Garden

Our neighbor in back, Yanai, helped us remove a messy weed tree—a big acacia whose branches threatened to fall onto another neighbor‘s house.
We dug out all the roots of the acacia (months of hard work!), replacing the uneven yard of ugly kikuyu grass with a beautiful stone patio and lush, tropical plants. Lying in the hammock under the fig tree, we like to pretend we’re on vacation!Some Plants in the Garden
Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, King palm
Banksia baxteri, Bird’s Nest Banksia
Canna, Indian shot
Cestrum ‘Newellii’, Cestrum
Passifloria jamesonii, Passion flower
Ficus pumila, Creeping fig
Phyllostachys nigra, Black bamboo
Phoenix roebelini, Pygmy date palm
Fatsia japonica , Japanese aralia
Kniphofia galpinii ‘Orange Flame’ (syn K. triangularis), Red hot poker, torch flower
Hedychium coccineum, Ginger lily
Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax
Melianthus major, Honey bush
Hydrangea macrophylla and Hydrangea quercifolia (Oak leaf hydrangea)
Streletzia nicolai, Giant bird of paradise
Grevillea banksii, kahili flower, Banks grevillea
Eryngium maritimum, Sea holly
Euphorbia dulcis ‘Chameleon’, Spurge
Cotinus coggygria Smoke tree
Pennisetum setaceum, Fountain grass
Salvia coccinea, Sage
Stipa, Feather grass
Romneya coulteri, Matilija poppy
Erigeron karviskianus, Mexican daisy
Ficus, fig tree
Abutilon
Perovskia
Rudbeckia
Artemesia
Liriope, Mondo grass
Lavendula, Lavender
Clematis lingusticifolia
Tree dahlia
Herbs: Basil, lemon grass, thyme (two kinds), rosemary, parsley, lemon verbena

MLS: 02032409; Cross Streets: 6th-7th Street; Map: 02032409
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