Features
This stunning light-filled custom Contemporary home offers commanding views of Marin hills and valleys, all the way to the Bay and beyond to Mount Diablo. Located at the top of the ridge above Fairfax, a community known for its hip, small-town atmosphere, excellent schools, and vibrant downtown amenities. The home is situated on large lot that backs up to natural terrain then miles of protected open space, and is steps away from extensive hiking and biking trails.
The living room features 9-foot ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace, with a pair of oversized French doors opening onto a view deck. French doors in the open floor plan kitchen and dining rooms lead to an oversized composite deck with a water feature and a bridge spanning a seasonal creek. Remodeled in 2013, the cook’s kitchen features Calacatta d’Oro honed marble counters, handmade subway tiles, a Libeherr refrigerator, a Thermador range and dishwasher, Crown Pointe custom all-maple cabinetry finished with Farrow & Ball floor paint, and a pull-out pantry. A family room flows from the dining area. A generously sized bedroom, currently used as an office, opens from French doors onto a mini retreat deck next to a fern garden. A shower bathroom with batten board wainscoting completes this level.
The upper level centers around a spacious landing that can be used as a second family room. The landing and the large master bedroom have French doors opening to a protected view deck with an irrigated planter garden. Views of Ross Valley, the Bay, and Mount Diablo make spectacular sunrises a special feature of the luxurious master suite, which includes an expansive closet/dressing room with a built-in dressing table, a marble and limestone bathroom with a two-person shower, jetted tub, a custom vanity with double sinks, and separate enclosed lavatory. There are two additional good-sized bedrooms on this level, with a spacious tiled bath with two sinks and an oversized tub. A full laundry room with abundant cabinets and counter space leads to a redwood deck and level, grassy back yard sheltered by native live oak, madrone and bay trees.
The property is very private and includes drought-and deer-resistant landscaping, a kids’ tree house with a view, and a wired hot tub pad with view, Features include hardwood floors throughout, all-LED overhead lighting, central air conditioning, sprinkled, an attic fan, and a multi-station irrigation system.
- 4 Bedroom 3 full baths
- Living room with wood burning fireplace.
- Open floor plan kitchen, dining, and family room
- Built in 1999
- 2,665 sq. ft. per tax records
- 32,000 square feet per the builder
- 3 decks and a grassy area
- 2 car parking
Neighborhood
Fairfax
When you purchase a home in Fairfax, you're also purchasing history. There's still a whiff of 1960s counterculture in Fairfax, where the Jefferson Airplane once played softball with the Grateful Dead. This town of 7,500 residents just north of Mount Tamalpais is 30 minutes from San Francisco, less than 20 miles from Point Reyes, and is known as one of Marin County’s more affordable communities.
The heart of Fairfax is Broadway Boulevard, which parallels Sir Frances Drake Boulevard, the main traffic corridor heading west. Broadway is a perfect walking street where locals shop at Fairfax Coffee Roastery, purchase fresh local produce at the farmers market, and duck into Fairfax Variety for toys, tchotchkes, and candy. If Fairfax feels like it is living in a time warp, that's just fine with its residents, who have passed ordinances prohibiting chain stores, plastic bags, and Styrofoam takeout-food packaging. The art-deco movie theater and 19 Broadway Bar & Night Club are at the center of the action when it comes to nightlife in Fairfax.