This is the quintessential Balboa Island Cottage. Lovingly owned and cared for by the same family for 40 years! The entry of this property is inviting and serene as you walk through the French Country landscape designed by the world renown Lifescapes, Inc. giving you the feeling of a grand reset as you approach the French door entryway to your home. Opening the front door, you are greeted with the very social and quaint living room with a wood burning fireplace, the dining area and kitchen, creating a feeling of the modern great rooms of today. The Kitchen is completed with a kitchen nook/prep-station with an opening to an outside bistro area perfect for that morning cup of coffee or tea. Off the dining area is a room/den perfect for privacy and reading or for entertaining the children in their separate space. The first level of this home is complete with a powder room, shower and two car garage with substantial setback off the alley. Upstairs has three bedrooms, one being used as a master bedroom with a large deck, one as a guest room and one currently used as an office with a balcony overlooking the mature Liquid Amber tree creating lovely shade and those soft summer breezes that are so great. A perfect place to run your business from home. When you buy this home, you are buying a piece of Balboa Island history... This is a definite must have! (The stained-glass art, currently in the front entry door is excluded in this listing and will be replaced when sold) Buyer to varify that this property is not listed in the FEMA flood zone.