A Storybook Home That Keeps Unfolding

From the street, 760 Edgewood Road has all the charm of a storybook San Mateo Park cottage. Lush, established gardens surround the home, a brick path leads to the entry, and mature plantings create a sense of privacy from the moment you arrive.

What you can't see is just how much unfolds beyond the front door.

Inside, the home reveals unexpected scale, beautifully crafted details, and spaces that have been thoughtfully shaped over decades. Rich wood floors run underfoot. Exceptional custom millwork and built-ins appear throughout. Ceilings rise dramatically where you least expect them, while windows, French doors, and garden views keep the outdoors continually present.

At 2,120± square feet (2,665± square feet including the bonus space), the three-bedroom home feels intimate without feeling small. This San Mateo Park residence gives its space to beautiful rooms, a serious kitchen, flexible bedroom arrangements, and an extraordinary connection to its gardens.

Beautifully Crafted Rooms

The formal living room introduces the craftsmanship found throughout the house. A fireplace anchors a wall of built-in bookcases, topped by a row of windows offering glimpses into the side yard. Along one wall, a window alcove creates an inviting place to sit with the plantation shutters open or closed, while rich wood floors, crown molding, and carefully executed trim give the room a sense of permanence.

Built-in shelving frames the wide cased opening into the formal dining room, where wainscoting, a chandelier, and windows on two sides create a setting equally suited to dinner with friends or a quiet evening at home.

A swinging door with a round porthole window adds one more charming detail before opening into the kitchen.

A Dramatic Kitchen Opens to Everyday Garden Living

Stepping into the kitchen, the ceiling suddenly rises through two stories, with windows high above bringing natural light down into the room. Below, limestone countertops and custom cabinetry surround a kitchen made for people who genuinely enjoy cooking. Sub-Zero refrigeration, a set of Gaggenau ovens, six-burner gas cooktop, farmhouse sink, and separate prep sink provide serious capability without sacrificing the warmth and character of the home around them.

At the far end, the kitchen flows into the garden room, an intimate living space walled in vintage knotty pine and designed specifically to connect the house with the backyard. Once a bedroom, the room was reimagined as part of the home's evolution, creating an everyday gathering space with built-ins, garden views, and a direct connection to the veranda outside.

Gardens That Intertwines With Life

The gardens at 760 Edgewood are not simply landscaping around the house; they are an integral part of it.

In front, what was once primarily lawn has evolved into a lush composition of established trees, flowers, and layered plantings that gives the home its storybook arrival.

Behind the house, a brick veranda extends from the garden room into a backyard designed to be enjoyed slowly. Lawn and mature plantings create an intimate garden setting, while a pergola draped in wisteria forms a destination of its own. A small garden shed sits beside the detached garage, adding another touch of cottage character.

French doors from both main-level bedrooms provide additional connections outside, making the garden something experienced throughout the home rather than only from the backyard.

A Flexible Bedroom Layout

The home's bedroom arrangement offers remarkable flexibility, including the option for primary living on either level.

Two bedrooms are located on the main floor. The larger, garden-facing primary pairs windows on two walls with built-ins and French doors opening directly outside. Nearby, the beautifully remodeled full bath supports comfortable main-level living with a spacious zero-threshold glass shower, wall-mounted toilet, heated towel rack, and green stone-topped vanity.

The second main-level bedroom is generously sized and equally flexible. Built-in cabinetry and French doors make it a lovely bedroom, while the same features lend themselves naturally to a home office, library, or richly appointed private study.

Upstairs, a spacious suite occupies the entire upper level. Vaulted ceilings, exposed beams, a chandelier, built-ins, and plantation shutters give the bedroom an architectural presence all its own. An adjoining bonus room serves well as a space to work, read, or retreat, while still offering extensive storage. The ensuite bath completes the level with a continuous-floor walk-in shower, rainfall showerhead, and fold-down seat.

Whether the main-level primary is preferred for everyday ease or the upper floor is claimed as a private retreat, the layout allows the home to adapt around how its next owners want to live.

Decades of Stewardship Are Written Into the Home

The character of 760 Edgewood isn't accidental.

Owned by the same family since 1987, the home reflects decades of thoughtful stewardship and a deeply considered evolution over time. Much of the bespoke woodwork defining the interiors was created over several years by a woodworker and two craftsmen, giving the home a level of detail and individuality rarely replicated today. In the garden room, vintage knotty pine reclaimed from the family's childhood home was given new life, adding another layer of history and warmth to the space.

That same level of attention extends well beyond what can be seen.

Major improvements over the years have included extensive seismic reinforcement, copper plumbing, underground electrical and communications lines with commercial-grade conduit, radiant floor heating, insulation throughout exterior and interior walls, specialized sound-reduction construction, beautifully remodeled bathrooms, and a finished and insulated garage.

The result pairs the warmth, individuality, and craftsmanship of a 1920s San Mateo Park home with an extraordinary level of improvement undertaken across nearly four decades of ownership. Distinctive, beautifully crafted, and wonderfully unexpected, 760 Edgewood reveals more of its character with every room, garden view, and thoughtful detail.