This sophisticated, lovely and exceptionally thoughtfully designed home with views to the bay feels worlds away but it is close to everything - including Rockridge shopping and public transit to San Francisco. Every living space invites in the sun and bucolic hillside setting, bathing the entire home is a sense of lightness and tranquility. Updated kitchen with pantry, great room with built ins. Four new decks take advantage of surrounding privacy and extend the living space. Fireplaces in three rooms, A/C in the master, main floor laundry and walls of windows in the dining room that open to the landscape - contribute to this home’s ease and comfort. Low maintenance garden, generous, connected two car garage with built-in storage. Entry-level bedroom/guest room/exercise room. 7245 has a Berkeley address but is within Oakland city limits, roughly between the Claremont Hotel and Caldecott Tunnel. Sewer lateral compliant, sect. 1 pest clear. “E” express bus to SF just steps away.