1015 Warfield Avenue

Renovation With Reverence

There is a version of renovation that strips a house of everything that made it matter. And then there is 1015 Warfield — a 1907 Craftsman in Oakland's Grand Lake neighborhood, renovated with skill and love, as the listing described it, with original character not just preserved but amplified by every update made. The formal foyer with original woodwork, the dining room with built-ins and stained glass, the living room with custom fireplace and French doors — these are rooms that earned their age and wear it well.

At 3,230 square feet on a generous 0.29-acre lot, this is a home of genuine scale for Grand Lake — a neighborhood where houses of this quality, this vintage, and this yardage seldom appear. Patrick MacCartee represented the buyers who secured it at $2,900,000 in May 2025.

The Chef's Kitchen as Statement of Intent

The kitchen at 1015 Warfield announces the renovation's ambitions plainly. Heath Ceramics tile — made across the bay in Sausalito, designed for permanence — lines the surfaces alongside a BlueStar range, a brand that serious home cooks specify for its professional-grade BTU output and open burner design. A spacious island anchors the room, and the layout is designed for the indoor-outdoor flow that connects the kitchen to the extraordinary backyard beyond.

This is not a kitchen renovated to satisfy a listing checklist. It is a kitchen built by people who cook, for people who cook, with materials that improve with use.

Four Bedrooms Up, One Level of Living Below

The upper floor consolidates four bedrooms and two baths on a single level — an arrangement that serves families well, with the primary en-suite offering generous storage and the additional bedrooms drawing ample natural light. One room was staged as a family room or office, with wrap-around windows overlooking the garden below — the kind of flexible space that becomes whatever the household needs it to be over time.

A full ADU on the lower level — with its own kitchen, bathroom, and laundry — adds a dimension of utility that few properties at this price point can match. It functions as a guest suite, a long-term rental, multigenerational housing, or a private workspace with complete separation from the main house. In a neighborhood as walkable and desirable as Grand Lake, the ADU alone materially changes the property's value proposition.

The Backyard: Urban Orchard, Proper

The word "backyard" understates what 1015 Warfield offers behind the house. On a lot measuring nearly a third of an acre, the outdoor space has been cultivated into something closer to a working kitchen garden and outdoor living compound: more than twenty fruit trees, vegetable gardens, a wood-fired pizza oven, a hot tub, a potter's shed, and multiple distinct areas for relaxation and entertaining.

Urban orchards of this scale and intentionality are rare even in the East Bay's most garden-conscious neighborhoods. This one reads as a genuine extension of the home's renovation philosophy — the same care applied indoors carried through every corner of the property.

Property Features

• 1907 Craftsman — original woodwork throughout
• Formal foyer with period details
• Living room with custom fireplace + French doors
• Dining room with built-ins and stained glass
• Heath tile kitchen
• BlueStar range / professional grade
• Spacious kitchen island
• Indoor-outdoor kitchen flow
• 4 bedrooms on upper level
• Primary en-suite with generous storage
• Wrap-around windows / garden room
• Full ADU — kitchen, bath, laundry
• 20+ fruit trees — urban orchard
• Vegetable gardens
• Wood-fired pizza oven
• Hot tub
• Potter's shed
• 0.29-acre lot