2812 Cardenas Drive NE

Minutes from Uptown, on a quiet Quigley Park street, this started out as the sales office for the model home when the neighborhood went up. It's a Mossman, and it has what people mean by that. Hardwood floors. A vaulted tongue and groove ceiling running the length of the living room. A fireplace that opens on both sides, so one fire warms two rooms at once.That history is still sitting in the den. Paneled walls, a brick hearth, and the original built in bar with the Mossman 'M' cut into the facia, lit glass cabinet above it for the good glassware. The fireplace runs through the wall from the living room and opens here too, which is a nice thing to have in January.The living room stretches out under that wood ceiling with a wall of glass toward the street. Two steps down at the back is the sunroom, and this is where the house really works. Skylight overhead, windows on two sides, three sets of French doors along the back. It's the dining room on paper. Most of the year it's an open door to the yard.And the yard earns it. A tiled patio under a pergola, string lights already hung, then a deep walled lawn on a sprinkler timer, green without being a second job. Shade tree in the middle, cypress along the back fence, and a walk out to a stucco storage building with a real door and roof, so the bikes and the tools have somewhere to go.The kitchen was updated with restraint. Walnut butcher block counters, a stainless farmhouse sink under the window, glazed tile, stone floor, gas range. Updates have included the bathrooms and the plumbing, a slate shower with a rainhead, a tankless water heater for endless hot water, and refrigerated air. All appliances convey.