Come stay in a beautiful room in a 100-year Queen Anne Victorian Mansion, this area is truly a hidden jewel waiting to be explored. There is really something special about being here. The Victorian architecture was designed to look like castles and villas from many different places and eras, in single housing development, creating a uniform architectural look. There are mini-mansions and on streets like Trestle Glen, and  there is a mix of smaller houses and large houses. Follow the winding brick path, to the arched front door, of this story book mansion, magical curb appeal with wood shake roof and English country garden. The entry room opens to an enchanting living room with high beam ceilings and wood-burning fireplace. Hardwood floors continue into the dining room and new high-end kitchen. Victorian craftsmanship is marvelous, extravagant, and beautiful.

Normandy Gardens is one Oakland’s prettiest neighborhoods with tree lined streets and charming houses. Many Oakland neighborhoods have a strong sense of community. The Storybook homes, of Normandy Gardens, are beautifully designed and magical. They were constructed by W.W. Dixon and built by R.C.Hillen in the 1920s. W.W.Dixon was the architect of Hillen’s Modest Mansions, on Picardy Drive, in Oakland, California. These houses were designed to replicate, in a whimsical way, the architecture of Normandy. The houses are spacious and extremely well laid out. The neighborhood is cohesive and even has its own newsletter. Every Christmas there is a Christmas Tree placed on the grassy median on the street. Holiday Lights is a web page that shows Picardy Drive with all its Christmas Tree lights lit up.

Victorian craftsmanship is marvelous, extravagant, and beautiful. If Victorian homes, in Sacramento, CA, are in short supply, but high demand, and expensive, they are the homes of the elite because basically buyers will sell to–not only one with the best offer, but someone they feel will care for the home and it its authenticity. So just because you have the best offer, does not mean that your bid will be accepted. A lot of hard work and love goes into those homes, and they are no longer in production, nor can they really be reproduced. But at the same time, buyers do not want a Victorian home that has lost its charm. Buys want Victorian homes the ornate features, like the lath and plaster walls, silver chandeliers, parquet floors, mahogany walls, tiffany stained glass and lead glass windows, hand crafted Italian marble fire places. 

Historians love the witches cap, towers, fish scale shingles, cartouche, insert balcony, cupola, finial, ridge cresting and gable. Buyers also cherish the historical wall paper, and all the clever details on the stairs, door hinges, and if you have any original furniture—that is even better.  A true historian also adores the formal layout of a real Victorian homes—the less modern features, the more attractive the home is. The more original the Victorian home is, the more desirable it will be to buyers because owning a Victorian home, is like owing a piece of history.

People still feel the charm. If Victorian homes, in Sacramento, CA, are in short supply, but high demand, and expensive, they are the homes of the elite because basically buyers will sell to–not only one with the best offer, but someone they feel will care for the home and it its authenticity. So just because you have the best offer, does not mean that your bid will be accepted. A lot of hard work and love goes into those homes, and they are no longer in production, nor can they really be reproduced. But at the same time, buyers do not want a Victorian home that has lost its charm.

Buyers want Victorian homes the ornate features, like the lath and plaster walls, silver chandeliers, parquet floors, mahogany walls, Tiffany-stained glass and lead glass windows, hand crafted Italian marble fireplaces. Historians love the witches cap, towers, fish scale shingles, cartouche, insert balcony, cupola, finial, ridge cresting and gable. Buyers also cherish the historical wallpaper, and all the clever details on the stairs, door hinges, and if you have any original furniture—that is even better.  A true historian also adores the formal layout of a real Victorian homes—the less modern features, the more attractive the home is. The more original the Victorian home is, the more desirable it will be to buyers because owning a Victorian home, is like owing a piece of history.