1518 Santa Clara Ave.

The 2-story home’s elegant exterior offers distinctive Mediterranean architectural features including a terra cotta roof, wrought-iron railings and stucco walls with decorative arches. The front door, situated on a pretty second-story porch, opens to a formal foyer that leads to the formal living room and the adjacent dining room, both filled rooms with lovely period features. Arched doorways, oak floors and tray ceilings characterize these rooms, with oversized dual-pane windows providing abundant natural light as well as energy efficiency. The living room’s original fireplace has been refaced with elongated marble hex tiles and a quartz hearth for a contemporary and elegant aesthetic, and the dining room features a sophisticated new pendant light fixture. The kitchen, located behind the dining room, was remodeled in 2018 and features bright white Shaker-style cabinets and Calacatta quartz counters with a backsplash of translucent glass subway tiles. A sun-filled breakfast room is open to the kitchen, and has a stylish pendant light and views of the lush backyard.

Like most vintage home’s of this era, the bedrooms are situated on a dedicated hallway to the right of the dining room and kitchen. The primary bedroom has views of the backyard, and both bedrooms have handsome oak floors, ceiling fans, and dual-pane windows. The bathroom was remodeled in 2019, and has a black/white hex-tile floor, and a soaking tub/shower combination with white subway tiles on the surround.

One of the many appealing features of this home is a lower level that provides substantial bonus space (814 square feet) for an office, playroom, home gym and much more. Level-in from the attached garage, a backyard door and from stairs in the kitchen, this expansive street-level space provides many potential flexible uses and includes a laundry room and half bathroom. The attached 1-car garage offers off-street parking or a large storage space.

1518 Santa Clara Ave is ideally located in central Alameda within minutes of everything! Less than 1/2 mile to Franklin Elementary School and park, and just minutes to Nob Hill Foods, the Farmers’ Market, downtown Park and Webster St businesses, this move-in-ready home is close to Crown Beach/Washington Park and ACTransit buses to BART, the SF Ferry and San Francisco’s Salesforce terminal. This is Alameda at its best!