835 Walnut Avenue

  • 5

    Beds

  • 3

    Baths

  • 3,149 sq ft

    Home Size

  • 6,192 sq ft

    Lot Size

Sold

$3,070,000

Overview

Enjoy modern comforts plus the enduring charms of a classic California Craftsman bungalow at this exquisite property in highly desirable Burlingame Park. Overflowing with the love of one family for the past 37 years and with roots dating back to 1923, this beautifully updated home stands ready for yet another generation.

Over the years, extensive remodeling, retrofitting, plus an expansion resulted in a spacious two-story home that is perfectly appointed with complete respect for the home’s original heritage. Details like hardwood floor parquetry, Craftsman-style millwork and glass door knobs are timeless. Extensive custom built-in cabinetry can be found in almost every room providing added space that is as functional as it is handsome.

Beyond the welcoming living room and formal dining room, the kitchen and family room combination is certain to be the home’s central gathering place. Remodeled just over one year ago, the kitchen is a designer showpiece and spacious enough to handle any sized gathering. The family room, clearly designed for indoor/outdoor living, has sliding glass doors opening to the outdoor dining patio and expansive, fully gated rear yard. There are 5 bedrooms ideally arranged with two on the main level and an upstairs master suite and two additional bedrooms. Adding to the accommodations are flexible-use quarters above the detached garage with excellent space for an office, media center, and/or recreation room.

All of this, plus a sought-after Burlingame Park location minutes to SFO, Caltrain and commuter routes to San Francisco and Silicon Valley, and midway between Broadway and Burlingame Avenue for the best of shopping and dining in downtown.

  • Built in

    1923

  • Listed

    5 years ago

  • Neighborhood

  • Schools

    McKinley Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, Burlingame High School (buyer to verify)


Amenities

  • Extensively remodeled, retrofitted, and expanded from the original circa 1923 bungalow, and all done with complete respect for the home’s vintage heritage

  • Lovingly owned by the same family for the past 37 years

  • Two levels with 5 bedrooms and 3 baths

  • Detached 2-car garage with outstanding office/recreation quarters upstairs with outside entrance

  • Approximately 3,149 square feet of living space

  • Picture-perfect curb appeal still showcases the classic bungalow covered porch entrance, now preceded with a paver stone driveway and iron gate that opens to the detached garage and closes off the rear yard for an extended play area

  • Manicured lawn and gardens frame the front of the home

  • A full-height leaded glass panel is inset into the front door giving an updated nod to the home’s early heritage

  • Interior design elements include refinished hardwood floors, new carpet in most rooms, new paint, Craftsman-style millwork designed to match the original home, and custom built-in cabinetry in most rooms

  • Welcoming foyer is defined by wainscot paneling and an inlaid “carpet” of chevron-patterned hardwood outlined with a feature strip

  • The carpeted living room has a recessed ceiling, tall front and side windows above wainscot, and a focal-point fireplace outlined in brick beside a bank of glass-front cabinetry

  • Wainscot paneling continues into formal dining room, which has a striking colorful glass pendant light; wall-to-wall cabinetry, some with glass fronts, is positioned beneath windows

  • Beautifully remodeled kitchen, completed in 2017, has custom-hued factory-finished cabinetry topped in quartz with full-height backsplash in the cooking area and tile with colorful mosaic backsplash on the perimeter, which continues into a spacious casual dining area; tile finishes the floor and extends into the sky-lit family room

  • Stainless steel appliances include an LG gas range with two ovens, Bosch dishwasher, and KitchenAid refrigerator

  • Remodeled main-floor bath finished entirely in granite has a single-sink vanity and frameless glass shower for two with radiant heating in floor and shower

  • Bedroom 1, also suitable for a media room, has surround sound speakers, wall-mounted wiring for a media screen, built-in desk center, and walk-in closet

  • A large bedroom opens to the rear yard through sliding glass doors and includes extensive built-in cabinetry on two walls, including a workstation for two ideal for use as an office

  • Sky-lit upstairs landing has hardwood floors with an inset parquet feature strip and large linen closet

  • Master bedroom with cathedral ceiling, extensive custom built-in cabinetry, plus a walk-in closet; the en suite bath with marble finishes includes a dual-sink vanity, oversized whirlpool tub, frameless glass shower for two, operable skylight, and privacy area for the commode

  • Bedrooms 3 and 4 each with carpet, closet with mirror-paneled doors and built-in dresser and cubbies, ceiling fan, and built-in desk center

  • A tiled bath with operable skylight has a single-sink vanity and glass-enclosed tub with overhead shower

  • Detached 2-car garage with outside staircase to a large flexible-use room ideal for an office or recreation area; features include 4 operable skylights, built-in desk counter spanning the wall, tile, hardwood, and carpeted floor, surround sound speakers, and a walk-in closet

  • Extensive tiled patio accessed from the family room perfect for outdoor dining

  • Other features include: security alarm; speakers in some rooms; concealed laundry area with Miele washer and dryer beneath the stairs; seismic retrofitting; original windows replaced with dual-pane Pella windows with divided light detail mimicking the original

  • Landscaped rear yard with expansive lawn and perimeter foliage

  • Excellent local schools: McKinley Elementary, Burlingame Intermediate, and Burlingame High (buyer to confirm enrollment)

  • Lot size of approximately 6,192 square feet

  • Outstanding location just one-half mile to Broadway and less than one mile to Burlingame Avenue for shopping and dining


Burlingame

Burlingame Park

Despite some predictably negative numbers (average and median home values down 6% and 7%, respectively), Burlingame Park outperformed many of its neighbors in 2022. Average price per square foot increased 16%, to $1,580, and total sales fell only by one, to 17, after increasing by 42% in 2020 to 2021. What may be more notable for this market’s future is how its range of sold properties changed from 2021 to 2022. Over half of Burlingame Park sales closed escrow for more than $4 million in 2021, whereas this year only five of 17 sales reached that level. Of those five, though, four were for $5 million-plus, led by a $6.5 million sale that closed escrow in late September, several months into 2022’s changed market.

To view a detailed google map of the Burlingame Park neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 460.

Favorable

  • The closest walkable neighborhood to downtown

  • Large, historic homes

  • Tree-lined streets

  • One of the two neighborhoods (along with Easton Addition) where you're likely to find new home


Adverse

  • Homes rarely come on the market here...typically around 1 a month


Explore Burlingame Park

Burlingame is one of the few areas that has maintained its gracious charm and timeless elegance over the decades. A favorite among families, Burlingame’s two main shopping areas, Burlingame Avenue and Broadway, attract a wide variety of shoppers discovering its boutiques, restaurants, dessert places, and clothing stores. Home to fresh farmer’s markets every Sunday morning in the summer and fall, jazz concerts in Washington Park, and a yearly Art in the Park fair, Burlingame is a wonderful place to start a family or retire later in life, and is well equipped for both!

Its tree lined streets offer an abundance of architecture and style of homes, from quaint two bedroom bungalows to thoughtfully designed four and five bedrooms.

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Timeless elegance
Renowned small town, community feel
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Top schools
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Burlingame is well known for it’s beautiful trees: each of its 15,000 trees is visited at least once every five years for care, and Burlingame has been a Tree City USA for over 30 consecutive years.
Explore Burlingame

If you’re looking to buy a home in Burlingame in a particular public elementary school district, this unique google map will help you identify the geographic boundaries for enrollment of each school. This map was assembled from data from the school district website (handy for quickly identifying what school a particular address is assigned to), and is reliable but not guaranteed.

If you have more specific questions about schools in Burlingame, please contact Raziel. To verify enrollment in the event it is impacted, contact the Burlingame School District.

All addresses in Burlingame go to Burlingame High School (In 2003, the district lines were redrawn to incorporate this change). Burlingame High is within the San Mateo Union High School District (not the Burlingame School District, which includes all five public elementary schools and BIS). To verify enrollment information, please contact the High School District.

Burlingame shares a common history with neighbors San Mateo, Millbrae and Hillsborough, but only up to a point. Like the surrounding communities, Burlingame was once the site of native Costanoan villages and then part of a Mexican land grant (Rancho Buri Buri to the north and Rancho San Mateo to the south). Burlingame’s history diverges from that of nearby Peninsula cities in the late 1800s, when Francis Newlands, son-in-law of landowner and Nevada Senator William Sharon, came up with a plan to turn this stretch of real estate into a playground for San Francisco’s wealthiest residents.

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