172 Lakeshore Drive
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3
Beds
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2.5
Baths
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1,620 sq ft
Home Size
per county records
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8,000 sq ft
Lot Size
per county records
Overview
Designer colors inside and out, beautiful hardwood floors, modern lighting, and fabulous outdoor living venues – it’s all here at this freshly updated and remodeled home in sought-after Baywood Park. A perfectly selected palette outside is complemented by the modern style of the gardens where a wide walkway to the front door is bordered by native grasses and ferns. Inside, the one-level floor plan features an open and flowing arrangement of rooms for formal and everyday living and dining plus an updated kitchen with quartz counters and quality stainless steel appliances. Freshly painted interiors include contrasting colors that feature the two fireplaces and exposed ceiling beams, all coordinating with the fine hardwood floors that unify the public rooms and continue into two of the bedrooms. Sliding glass doors invite indoor/outdoor living to the wrap-around gardens that begin with a pergola-covered deck and custom playground. All around, landscape lighting enhances the ambiance.
There are 3 bedrooms in a private wing, including a luxurious master suite plus one bedroom with direct access to the hallway bath. The home’s 2.5 baths are all beautifully remodeled and include such features as wood-look plank tile floors, porcelain tile finishes, penny and hex tile features, and contemporary-style vanities. Two of the bedrooms open to a wrap-around deck with built-in seating, perfect for morning coffee in a very private setting. Adding the finishing touch are amenities like new lighting throughout, an energy-efficient Nest thermostat, separate laundry room, and attached 2-car garage. The location is also ideal, just minutes to Highways 92 and 280 for commuting to either Silicon Valley or San Francisco, plus close to College of San Mateo, Crystal Springs Shopping Village, and miles of hiking and biking on Sawyer Camp Trail.
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Built in
1959
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Listed
5 years ago
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Neighborhood
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Schools
Highlands Elementary, Borel Middle School, Aragon High School (buyer to verify)
Amenities
- Extensively updated home with just-completed fresh finishes
- 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, including master suite
- Approximately 1,620 square feet of living space
- Newly painted exterior in a designer palette complemented by contemporary landscaping with a wide walkway to the front door lined with grasses and ferns
- Front door, inset with true divided light glass, opens to a foyer area with ceiling light and convenient coat closet; newly painted interiors are introduced along with oak floors that continue throughout most of the home
- A half-wall in the foyer serves as a divider to the formal living room with front picture window, recessed lighting on two sides, and focal-point fireplace outlined to-the-ceiling in contrasting painted brick
- Spacious family/dining room fully open to the kitchen; a wrap-around elevated fireplace is surrounded to-the-ceiling in painted brick matching the exposed ceiling beams; recessed lights dot the ceiling, and wide sliding glass doors open to the rear deck
- Kitchen, with designer updates completed in 2012, includes refinished cabinet fronts, some with new glass inlays, new quartz countertops, plus subway-set tile backsplashes; a peninsula counter offers breakfast/wine bar seating facing an expansive window with garden views
- Stainless steel GE appliances, new in 2012, include a gas range with griddle, dishwasher, and refrigerator
- Fully remodeled half-bath, just off the kitchen, has a furniture-style vanity and wood-look plank tile flooring
- Two bedrooms, each with hardwood floor, drum light, and cedar-lined closet; one bedroom also has sliding glass doors to the deck shared with the master bedroom plus direct access to the hallway bath
- Remodeled hallway bath has wood-look plank tile floors, a dual-sink vanity topped in marble, plus tub with overhead shower surrounded in subway-set white tile with a penny tile feature strip
- Bright and light master bedroom suite has new carpet with extra-plush padding, a cedar-lined closet with bi-fold doors, lighted fan, individual air conditioning unit, and sliding glass doors to a large wrap-around deck; the remodeled en suite bath has a suspended contemporary vanity, hex tile floor, and porcelain tile shower with frameless glass enclosure
- Separate laundry room, just off the kitchen, with full-size Maytag washer/dryer plus ample cabinetry
- Attached 2-car garage
- Enchanting updated low-maintenance landscaping with native grasses, terraced gardens, plus exterior lighting and irrigation; a large pergola-covered deck extends off the family/dining/kitchen area and adjoins a separate patio and space with custom playground; a second deck wraps around one side of the home and features built-in seating benches
- Delightful rear yard with synthetic lawn, perimeter gardens, separate patio with fire pit, tucked-away raised vegetable garden, and separately fenced side yard
- Lot size of approximately 8000 square feet
- Desirable Baywood Park neighborhood minutes to College of San Mateo, Highways 92 and 280, Crystal Springs Shopping Village, and Sawyer Camp Trail for miles of hiking and biking
- San Mateo schools: Highlands Elementary; Borel Middle; Aragon High (buyer to verify
San Mateo
Baywood Park/Enchanted Hills
Baywood Park’s surprisingly diverse housing inventory includes a handful of townhouses and single-family homes ranging anywhere from 1,500 to 3,000 square feet in size. Some homes, particularly those along streets adjacent to Hillsborough, mimic the latter town’s post-war California rancher style, long, low-slung buildings on large lots (though not large by Hillsborough standards; usually between 7,000 and 9,000 square feet), often with four or five bedrooms.
There are plenty of reasons to find Baywood Park attractive. It is quiet, yet convenient to Highways 92 and 280. It is suburban but only three miles from downtown San Mateo and offers shopping and dining options at nearby shopping centers. Its children attend three of San Mateo’s most highly-regarded public schools – Highlands Elementary, Borel Middle School and Aragon High School – and offers large, comfortable, modern homes.
All of this does not come cheaply or easily, however. Baywood Park home prices can cost up to $3 million, with recent sales showing a median of $2.75 million and a price range from around $2.28 to $3.23 million, and activity is not brisk. Only a handful of Baywood Park homes are on the market at any one time.
To view a detailed google map of the Baywood Park/Enchanted Hills neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 432.
San Mateo has it all: a diversity of neighborhoods, great parks, easy access, a plethora of shopping, and home to many businesses and an anchor for employment on the peninsula. With a rich heritage, dating back to the turn of the century with its most famous resident being A.P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of Italy and later Bank of America, San Mateo offers a delightful spread of activity for all. The downtown area is studded with delicious restaurants and a variety of retail stores, and also boasts a 12 screen movie theatre and one of the largest wine cellars in the country, at Draeger’s Grocery Store. Shopping abounds at Hillsdale and Bridgepointe as well as the many neighborhood shopping centers.
Perhaps the most well known natural area is Coyote Point, a rock outcropped peninsula that juts into San Francisco Bay and home to a natural history museum, the Peninsula Humane Society, windsurfing, a private marina, and large picnic areas with uplifting vistas. Within walking distance of downtown, Central Park has something for everyone: ride the toy train, pick up a game of tennis, take a serene walk through the Japanese Garden, have a picnic while listening to Thursday evening’s Jazz in the Park, or enjoy the playgrounds.
San Mateo attracts a variety of homeowners, from those seeking their first home in the upcoming neighborhoods of the Village, Parkside, or Shoreview, to those looking for more a little more space in Hillsdale or the Meadows, to larger families seeking the spaciousness offered by San Mateo Park, Baywood, and Aragon.
- Small town feel
- Big-city downtown amenities with a small town residential neighborhood feel
- Diverse housing
- Very diverse housing opportunities ranging from downtown condos to suburban ranches and secluded San Mateo Park mansions
- Top schools
- Baywood schools ranked among the state’s best
Early San Mateo was a place of large estates and boldface names familiar to anyone who’s driven the town’s streets. Parrott, Hayward, Borel—these were the wealthy pioneers who sowed the seeds that eventually grew into today’s modern city of 100,000 residents. San Mateo was borne from their needs and later from their subdivided land, all around a stagecoach stop established in 1849 by Nicolas de Peyster on former Ohlone tribal land.
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