78th Ave Jewell Lake Hotspot

$422,500
3330 W 78th Ave
Withdrawn from marketing

It's a distinct pleasure to find a solid home in Jewell Lake that doesn't show its age because it was so well-built initially and carefully maintained and updated since then.

Have you noticed that real wood siding isn't affordable in newer homes? Here's the real thing: pure cedar siding that holds up for years, can be kept in its natural wood shine, or painted as you wish. What's great about cedar is how it wears eternally: even if you never did anything to it, cedar just weathers naturally.

Even the shed has real cedar siding.

No cheating, either: so often you go around the side of these homes and it's just plywood.

Here's something else you wouldn't notice unless someone calls it to your attention: three-foot eaves around the entire home. It gives the home a stately appearance, and keeps water and snow away from the home and the foundation.

We write about a "hotspot" in Jewell Lake. You know about it if you are a gardener. This pocket around Jewell Lake and Raspberry is a Seattle microclimate. It's simply warmer here. You can grow things that won't survive in most of the Anchorage bowl. The owner would tell you about some exceptional apples they have harvested from a tree in the front yard. Notice the greenhouse that is on the sunny south side of the home, off the kitchen.

Newer homes don't have much yard space. Check the photos of the large deck and back yard where there's no limit to the possibilities.

The layout of the home includes generous living footage. It is a two-story home with two of the four bedrooms upstairs. The upstairs also has the full potential of separate living quarters with a private entrance from a stairway at the front of the home. The street-level floor is the main living area with the living, kitchen and dining rooms, plus another master suite. Downstairs in a full finished basement there's family and living areas, an office and mechanical and lots of storage areas. There are five baths total, two powder rooms, two master baths, and two secondary baths.

Cosmetically there is a lot to like here. Interior doors are all solid wood: none of the hollow-core panels for whoever built this home. The kitchen is tastefully modern and well-appointed with oak cabinetry and solid-surface countertops. The living areas have gleaming laminate flooring. There are decorator accent touches that provide artistic relief and pleasant surprises here and there, such as frosted images in the door panels leading into the living room. The lighting has been upgraded: in addition to lots of natural light that pours in through many windows, the natural light is more than adequate everywhere. Carpet is new in most areas of the home, too.

A home this solidly built should be very energy-efficient. To make it more so, there's an furnace that is oversized for the footage. A built-in humidifier completes the installation.

Lots of other pleasant surprises too, such as 220 power in the garage. It has a laundry sink and generous work areas and cabinetry. There's a sauna.

Finally, you will want to notice how the configuration of the street creates a large RV parking area in front of the home.

This is a classic home for someone to really love.

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