8625 NE Juanita Drive

Kirkland, WA 98034

There was a time when the best address on the lake wasn't about the house. It was about the water, the neighbors, the summers that ran together until you couldn't tell one from the next. This 1.47-acre street-to-water home on Juanita Bay is that place. Held by one family for over fifty years, it's the kind of property people in the 70s and 80s simply called the lake house — unpretentious, special, the kind people wanted to be invited to. With 119 feet of south-facing low-bank waterfront, an expansive lawn that gives you room to actually live outside, and lush plantings that make the whole property feel like its own world, this is not a lot that was carved out and squeezed in — it's a rare, generous piece of shoreline that has been one of the quiet treasures of Lake Washington for over a century. The deck faces south across Juanita Bay to Mount Rainier, the sunrises come in rose, the sunsets go gold, and the water puts on a show in between. A boathouse, a dock, a boat lift — everything you need and nothing you don't. Five bedrooms, a refreshed kitchen and bathrooms, new carpet, refinished hardwood floors, fresh paint — the home is ready without trying too hard. Juanita Beach is blocks away. Kirkland is five minutes. The rest of it — the noise, the pace, the notifications — fades the moment you arrive. This is the kind of place where unplugging isn't a discipline. It's just what happens.

Courtesy of NWMLS
Listing courtesy of Nate Short of Coldwell Banker Bain



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