I also thought the island was odd.
I’m not sure how good the views are from that house. I’ll report back after I tour it with my agent. But, in general, San Diego Harbor views are worth more than the other side of the peninsula with ocean views. A full ocean view is just dark at night, although the view from my Nipoma project does have a lot of night views with Mission Bay and Sea World.
Confidential remarks for agents in the listing states “Fridge credit to buyer”. I’m assuming someone has to offer full list price to get the refrigerator credit! That’s just plain cheap, although refrigerators are very personal. Also note that it has just a cheap push in range in kitchen
Plus the kitchen has very little storage. I’d take the old kitchen over the new kitchen. Sort of. But you get my drift.
Can’t wait to see how it sells.
I think they must have gotten a quantity discount on that bathroom tile because they used it on the walls and floors in all three bathrooms.
Just noticed that the range bumps up directly against the pantry cabinet - there is no landing space at all on that side.
Isn’t being that close to the heat going to eventually discolor/destroy that cabinet?
It looks to me like they made the kitchen smaller. And I hope they sized that support column correctly because it looks like it is about half the size of the old one.
I think they were cheap with their plumbing because they didnt want to move sink. It should have been moved out to a much larger island. I bet that kitchen window looks back at retaining wall behind house and they should have moved sink to living area with views
Ladder probably goes up to steep slope area behind house.
Those folks were looking to do some inexpensive and quick redoing…not a complete remodel. Cheap and quick…and gone.
Wonder if they will get the price they want. I honestly think their outside spaces are much nicer than their inside ones.
That whole house looks cheap. I hate the bathrooms, and the kitchen is atrocious. As @notrichenough said, it is a REALLY BAD idea to have a cabinet or fridge right up against the cooking surface, especially if it is gas, although I can’t tell what that one is. It’s something you usually see only in really cheap apartment conversions. It was the second thing I noticed, right after the grossly inadequate cabinet and counter space. (Why on earth put in such a featureless, midget island??) The only good thing is the wire railing, and now that people have pointed out the possibility of little kids climbing it it would make me nervous!
I will say that the view photos are great. Especially when the house isn’t in them. 
^LOL - agree, the views sans the house are awesome!!
I finally got to study the photos on the larger screen. Meh… Cheap. Cheap materials and cheap design.
Just met with the landscape designer and he was very surprised that i hired him right on the spot. He thought I would think about it for weeks or something.I made it clear that i don’t need blueprints or fanxy drawings.
I should have some schematics by middle of next week. He nixed glass garage door and said we should do a door with horizontal lines. Sounds cool but have no idea what that is going to cost!
We discussed patio downstairs but its a real dilemma. Keep parking space or turn it into patio paradise.
I think we would all vote for patio paradise.
I thought you had to have a second parking space. If not. What would be more desirable…another off street parking place or the patio?
OMG – Patio paradise!! Who in their right mind would use that as a parking space? In my view having outdoor eating area is critically important. It wouldn’t matter to me that the outdoor eating area was not on same floor as the kitchen, but I would have to have the ability for outdoor dining for a house to be considered. And that could be a fantastic outdoor patio! The trick will be to keep it as enough of a potential parking spot that you’ll pass inspection.
If it can be a patio paradise. That would get my vote. In that other house, the outdoor patios were beautiful. Couple that with your gorgeous indoor areas and you would have a super seller.
I thought the idea was to make it theoretically available as a parking space to meet code (ie hardscaped, and at least nominally accessible from driveway), but created and styled to function as a patio. The City cant make anyone park there, any more than they can prevent any resident from using a required garage as a storage unit.
There is no way in hell that I’d voluntarily back a car up out of that driveway.
Patio, all the way.
Is there some rule that a parking space has to be flat? There is room to park several cars in that driveway. With the parking brake on. (What do people do in San Francisco?)
His ideas included fencing off driveway because it is an eyesore and he says you would need some privacy from the street (although no one actually walks down that side of the street because there isn’t any sidewalk or anything). I just kept asking him to give a recommendation for some type of flooring that a car could drive onto, if needed. He said “Why would anyone want a car down here in front of their family room glass patio door”? I can’t answer that question, I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place here. Has to be kept as a legal parking place - and City inspector is going to be around for awhile, although I don’t think he cares too much about it. He hasn’t said a word about the retaining wall up to this point.
I have too many things that are going to happen ‘after City inspector does final inspection’. The list is getting too long and I cannot afford to extend the schedule - it costs $$$ every day we are sitting on this property.
“Is there some rule that a parking space has to be flat?”
Not in my neck of the woods! I had to park in a spot like that at one startup I worked. I learned how to quickly alternate the brake and the accelerator pedals…
Is there some sort of a coating that can be applied to the cement “parking spot” to make it easier to convert to a patio later?
Appian Way? Stone Deck? These can be used to convert a concrete pad into a patio in a matter of hours. Sigh. Probably too expensive.
What about using moveable units – like those long skinny rectangular planters that are popular right now – to create a virtual short wall that would define the space but still allow for use as a parking spot when the planters are moved? Lots of people do that kind of thing.