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1554 Alameda Padre Serra
$2,750,000
Incredible panoramic views of the mountains, ocean, islands, city and harbor and beyond from this 2-story French inspired residence located on the Santa Barbara Riviera. This grand home has an impressive entryway into the grand foyer. Travertine stairs lead you up the black-iron circular staircase, with a doomed ceiling featuring a striking chandelier above, and into an expansive second floor hallway. The upstairs offers an exquisite Master suite with lofty peaked ceilings that give an open and light feeling to the room that has spectacular views to the ocean, harbor and the downtown area. The Master Suite includes an office/art studio, master bath and walk-in closet. Across the hallway from the Master Suite are two more large bedrooms, both with beautiful views, one to the back terraced gardens and mountains and the other bedroom with views out to the back gardens and out to the ocean. The two large bedrooms are connected by a Jack-and-Jill full bathroom.
Returning back down the elegant staircase to the first floor of the home leads to the Family/Living room offering a tremendous fireplace as well as commanding ocean, city and harbor views from the vast picture windows. The formal Dining Room accommodates an intimate dinner or a large party who can look out to see the across the city to the ocean views. The Dining Room connects to the spacious gourmet kitchen complete with all the current amenities, including a 6-burner Viking stove. The kitchen looks out to the terraced garden at the back of the home that offers mountain views, colorful rose bushes and plantings.
Off to the right of the kitchen, a petite hallway leads to a powder room, a laundry area and a doorway out to an Italian-style stone paver and grass patio featuring a lovely splashing fountain on the 2nd level terrace. The patio and leads to the upper and lower gardens as well as to the extensive alfresco dining deck.
Stepping out of the kitchen to the left to the grand hallway leads you past an additional large guest bedroom with an attached full bath with views to the mountains and back garden. The hallway continues on to meet back in the grand foyer and to the circular staircase.
This superb home is situated on a tri-level and terraced grounds that offer beautiful lawns, gardens, extensive alfresco dining, entertaining decks, and stove-pavers patios. There is a third-terraced, wide lawn that stretches across the entire length of the back of the property. This third-level terrace is planted with white roses and white and green ground coverings and also offers fruit trees. A wide garden arch, covered in rose vines, frames the view to downtown Santa Barbara, the harbor and ocean views.
There are two, 2-car garages featured on this property. One garage is on the street level and has an Italian-gravel over look-out deck on the top. The second 2-car garage is on the entry level of the home and has a flat lawn over the garage and views out to the ocean.
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