Updated on Jul 20, 2026
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Type
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Private vacation home
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Bedrooms
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3
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Bathrooms
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2
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House Rules
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Pets allowed: less than 50 lbs per pet (limit 2 pets total)
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Children allowed: ages 3-17
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Smoking is not permitted
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No events allowed
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Max Occupancy
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6
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Host Language
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English
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Property Id
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2340307
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Our “Enlightenment Home” is a huge, spacious, artistic, modern and inspiring home in the Oakland Hills. Perfect work and play retreat. Large exercise studio, large office space. Happy, color-filled home with plants. We feel inspired to create here, we hope you do too. Super fast internet. A quiet street - more walkers than cars. Plenty of parking. 3 bedrooms m, master with attached bathroom, other two bedrooms with a large “jack and Jill” bathroom between them. Indoor jacuzzi tub. Front balcony has views of the hills. Back balcony wooded. Relax, create, BE in the Enlightenment House.
The space
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It's a tall two-story home that sits on a hill. An architect built the home for himself, it's private and expansive. We have a view of a private golf course. If you listen closely outside at night, you can hear the wolves howling at the Oakland Zoo. We love sitting on our "Cleopatra" lounge chair sipping our morning tea as we watch the sunrise over the hills. We live here part time, so it's a very cozy personal atmosphere in a spacious home (4,300 square feet). A gourmet kitchen with lots of appliances, gadgets, knives, and condiments. Just bring your food and you'll be able to cook whatever you want.
Great for two couples and/or a creative work time.
One bedroom has a king bed, the other two bedrooms with high-end queen mattresses. All mattresses are high end memory foam mattresses (T&N and Essentia). There’s a half bath upstairs near the great room/kitchen area.
We have stairs from the driveway to the front door, and a flight of stairs inside to get to the living room and kitchen. If you have trouble with stairs, sadly, our house is not for you.
Guest access
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We recommend parking in our driveway. Plenty of street parking too. You will need a car, or take lots of Ubers.
Other things to note:
This is a residential community and quiet street. Visitors other than the guests listed on the reservation are not permitted. If you’d like us to consider a request for visitors, please send an inquiry with details.
We mainly live here. When we go out of town, we make the home available for short-term rental. This means the house is very cozy, not a sterile hotel setting. We have our bookcases, our art, our kitchen utensils, etc.
Please treat our home like you are visiting a favorite relative!
We have a huge refrigerator and freezer. We leave the first two shelves of the freezer available for you.
The way the house was built which is long and open. the roof will sometimes make a sound like a squirrel is walking on roof, but usually it's just the roof creating the sound.
There is a railing that creates a loft feeling between the first and second floor. The railing is not child or pet proofed. There’s a few photos of the railing so you can determine if the house would be safe for your family.
Our backyard neighbor has chickens and a rooster that sometimes crows between 8am and sundown. We can’t hear it from the master bedroom.
Located in Sequoyah, a neighborhood in Oakland, this vacation home is in the mountains. Dunsmuir House and Gardens and Jonestown Memorial are local landmarks, and some of the area's attractions include Oakland Zoo and Chabot Space and Science Center. Looking to enjoy an event or a game? See what's going on at Oakland Arena or Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Practice your golf swing on a nearby course, or enjoy other activities in the great outdoors, such as cycling, hiking, and mountain biking in the area.
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