Unique West Oakland Eco-Compound available for the first time! This stunning Colonial Revival home is now a reimagined duplex, lovingly restored using both new and reclaimed materials with custom and hand-selected vintage finishes. There is gorgeous old growth wood featured throughout the decor, most of it original to the property. Every system has been updated — foundation, electric, plumbing, seismic retrofitting, roof, radiant heat in every unit, double-pane windows, and owned solar! Artistic vintage styling, not your typical cookie cutter. The 2-bedroom unit upstairs features original Douglas Fir hardwood floors, 10-foot high ceilings, full bath with clawfoot tub and Heath tile walk-in shower, a rockstar dressing room, and porch with custom metalwork rail. The kitchen boasts a commercial Viking range, large farmhouse sink, and warm Marmoleum flooring. The 1-bedroom unit downstairs features an open floor plan with polished concrete floors and a full bath with clawfoot tub. There’s a separate 2-room office/flex space with a full bath with clawfoot tub. An additional separate art studio/loft flex space has an efficiency kitchen, a full bath with clawfoot tub, and a playful wall of doors original to the home. There’s also a large 2-car garage with a workshop and laundry/mechanical room. So many possible configurations! (Compound, offices, practice spaces, art studios, in-laws.) Beautifully sculpted private yard with room to relax, gardens, well-maintained fruit trees (lemon, lime, apple, plum, pluot), a chicken coop, and rain catchment. Totally vacant! House is located a block away from beautiful Mandela Parkway, and is nearby Mandela Foods Co-op, Orbit coffee, Kilovolt coffee, The Crucible, 7 West, Horn BBQ. Close to Jack London, Old Oakland, Uptown. Two Blocks from West Oakland Bart, super close to SF! Easy access to all freeways to lead you anywhere in the Bay Area you want to enjoy.

Fruits: Santa Rosa Plum, Flavor King Pluot, Fuji Apple, Eureka Lemon, Bears Lime.

Herbs /Medicinals: Italian Parsley, Culinary Sage, Culinary Oregano, White Sage, Pineapple Sage, Lemon Verbena, Rue, Lemon Balm, Catnip, Mullein, Lavender, Echinacea

Also: Roses, Plectranthus, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Brugmansia, the most beautiful Wisteria, Australian Tree Fern, Abutilon, Milkweed (for the Monarchs), Iochroma, Clivia, Podacarpus, a variety of succulents, Naked Ladies, Fuchsia Boliviana, Eastern Redbud, Gingko, Bottle Brush and Black Bamboo.

LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS AND UPGRADES

2004 

• New sewer lateral to sewer main in street. New perimeter fence with redwood framing

2006-2010

• All new cast iron waste and sewer lines throughout the house
• All new copper water pipes throughout the house 
• New water service main 
• New gas piping throughout
• New gas main
• All new electrical service main and wiring throughout 
• Hardwired/wireless BAY ALARM system installed in both units
• House taken down to the studs for extensive earthquake retrofit ( shear walls throughout, hold downs top to bottom)
• New foundation
• New slab with hydronic radiant heat and underslab drainage 
• New engineered truss system
• New roof sheathing with hurricane clips
• New composition shingle roof 
• New subfloors upstairs
• Hydronic radiant heat in all floors
• New high efficiency boiler and stainless steel water storage tanks
• New double pane Marvin windows throughout
• Reclaimed(original to the house) doug fir flooring upstairs
• Cherry wide plank flooring in bedroom and dressing room
• Marmoleum flooring in the kitchen
• Ultratouch recycled denim insulation throughout
• ⅝” drywall throughout. Double ⅝”drywall on downstairs ceiling with ‘green glue’ sound dampening between sheets
• Living room walls and ceiling hand textured, painted and glazed
• Reclaimed old growth T&G beadboard(original to the house) 
• All new interior trim
• New Hardie board siding on 75%. Original Redwood for the rest
• All new exterior trim. Hand brushed exterior paint. New exterior stairs

2012

• Retrofit/renovation of garage and back studio which included- new foundation, new slab(studio) with hydronic radiant heat
• New electrical 200 amp panel and wiring
• Ultratouch recycled denim insulation
• Marvin double pane windows(studio)
• Velux skylights 
• ⅝” Sheetrock throughout 
• Reclaimed old growth T&G beadboard (original to the house), and reclaimed old growth original to 17th & Telegraph Pharmacy from early 1900’s 
• Sleeping loft with Jefferson stairs
• Full bathroom and efficiency kitchen with macerator pump plumbing

2019

• Solar system NorCal (owned)

2020

• New macerator pump in back studio
• New PG&E service wire from pole to house

Background

Cheri Russell, owner of Sassafras Landscaping and mixologist at Bar Dogwood, purchased this West Oakland duplex in the early 2000's and rehabbed it from foundation to roof into an extraordinary vintage stylish eco-compound. Completely reimagined with 2 units and an art studio with full bath, an office with full bath, and a garage with workshop and laundry room. There are tons of fruit trees, medicinal and edible herbs, a chicken coop, solar, and rain catchment, all in a secret garden behind a majestic gate. Truly one of a kind! Over a decade was spent sourcing fixtures and finishes all the while using reclaimed and recycled materials.