Furnished Garden Room.
available Oct 10th- private entrance-walk to UC Berkeley 172 sq ft
North Shattuck, foot of Berkeley Hills on Milvia ‘Bicycle Boulevard’ 12 minute walk to Downtown Berkeley BART Train, City College, Bus stop to LBNL on Hearst Street, by the University of California campus.
Convenient for exchange students, grad students and visiting scholars or commuters to San Francisco.
Private entrance 12 x 12 ft.
main room, closet with desk and small hobbit-like bathroom.
On garden level of 4 bedroom house for a single person, outdoor pet cat allowed.
House is 100 years old.
Main room has Mexican tile floor, furnished with a single bed (optional bedding) rugs, blinds, curtains, chairs, a table, desk lamps, bookcase, dresser and bedside small chest of drawers, and a microwave oven.
Three windows look north and west.
Just outside the entrance is a terra cotta tiled patio, under a deck.
The adjacent deep garden has cape weed, vegetable beds, flowering fruit trees, roses, a redwood tree with squirrels, many birds and visiting cats--occasionaly, opossum families.
Neighborhood features: quiet residential with many homeowners.
Two short blocks west of Shattuck Avenue between Vine and Cedar Streets.
Shops include: Cheeseboard; CVS Drugs; The Walk Shop, many clothing boutiques; a pet store with herbal remedies, Bing Wong Laundromat, BMO Bank; French Hotel Cafe, Peet’s Coffee, Safeway and Andronico’s supermarkets, may restaurants -most famous Chez Panisse, take-away gourmet food courts, and cake shops, US Post Office; United Parcel Service; 2 copy stores etc.
, near Live Oak Park.
North Shattuck is sometimes called 'the Gourmet Ghetto'.
House lifestyle: respectfully quiet after 10 PM for study or sleep.
No smoking, vaping or recreational drugs.
Kitchen privileges for breakfast: 7 - 9 AM Dinner 5 - 9 PM and all day weekends and holidays.
This room is below the kitchen, Limiting kitchen hours allows the person in the Garden Room quiet hours to work from home.
Housemates are experienced engineers.
Issac, a doctoral student and Curtis, a researcher at LBNL; both had worked in Hong Kong before applying to UCB graduate studies three years ago.
Owner is a writer, lives here and at her granddaughter's house in an agricultural area.
Should the Pandemic resurge, this household can comfortably work online from home as we did in the past 3 years.
Housemates share a fast Sonic fibre optic internet service.
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