Charm and functionality! This 1949 character home in Old Strathcona has been lovingly restored with many improvements. (More pictures available by email.) Recently refinished hardwood floors throughout main floor (oak) and basement (fir). All doors and trim - baseboards and shoe base, door and window casings, crown mouldings - have been sanded to bare wood, stained, and refinished. Two bedrooms on main floor, plus large living room / dining room area. Knotty pine kitchen includes gas range, dishwasher. Fully finished basement has recently been used as a home office, and as a rental suite (@ over $800 per month). Includes gas fireplace, 4-pc bath, full kitchen with dishwasher, and third bedroom. Basement suite has antique feature door on front entrance. Stairs for back entrance in new hardwood. Relatively new laundry facilities in basement mechanical room. R20 pink insulation between floors improves heat distribution and mutes sound.Original period light fixtures in most rooms on both floors. Detached double garage with two brand new doors and separate garage openers (one of them brand new), has its own electrical sub-panel (can be wired for 220V). Asphalt roof, mid-efficiency furnace, water heater, and 100 amp electrical panel new in 1999. Nice yard on quiet, beautiful elm-tree-lined street. Back yard with garden faces south, is fully enclosed with 6' high cedar fence, 3 gates. BBQ connected direct to natural gas. Near Mill Creek Ravine, river valley, with quick and easy access to down town, university - and minutes walk from farmers' market, schools, shops!