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Richardson Bay, morning to night.
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$2,495,000
188 Almonte Boulevard, Mill Valley
Property Details
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Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
3.5
Square Footage
2,676 sq ft
Private office, 2 car garage, full guest/flex level
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About the Property
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There is a moment in the early morning when Richardson Bay catches the first light, and another at the end of the day when the water begins to glow again. From 188 Almonte, both are part of the view.
Set on a street-to-street lot in Almonte, the house brings together a combination that is surprisingly hard to find in Mill Valley: water views, exceptional natural light, beautifully finished interiors, genuinely useful spaces for working and hosting, outdoor living, a side-by-side two-car garage, and a renovation comprehensive enough that the next owner can simply move in and enjoy it.
The house was extensively rebuilt from the inside out, with new electrical, plumbing, windows, doors and floors, along with solar and two Tesla Powerwalls for energy storage and backup power. This wasn't a renovation focused only on what you can see. The infrastructure was addressed along with the interiors, creating a home that feels considered all the way through.
The result doesn't feel newly renovated so much as resolved. Clean, warm and comfortable, without the inevitable list of projects waiting for the next owner.
The View Level
The main living level is where the house and its setting really come together.
Natural light moves through the open living, dining and kitchen spaces, with Richardson Bay providing the backdrop. Large openings draw you toward an expansive view deck that effectively becomes another room when the weather cooperates, which in this part of Mill Valley is often.
This is where the rhythm of the house changes throughout the day. Coffee outside as the bay catches the morning light. Doors open in the afternoon. Dinner as the light begins to soften across the water.
The kitchen sits naturally at the center of the living spaces rather than feeling separated from them, creating a main level that works equally well for a quiet morning or a house full of people. A powder room completes the floor.
A Private Bedroom Level
One level below, three bedrooms create a quieter, more private part of the house.
The primary suite and two additional bedrooms are joined by two full bathrooms, while another deck creates a second connection to the outdoors and Richardson Bay beyond.
Separating the bedrooms from the main entertaining level gives the house an easy sense of order: social spaces above, private spaces below, and views connecting the two.
An Entire Floor to Use Your Way
Then there is the lower level.
Rather than forcing it into a conventional fourth-bedroom description, this is an entire floor that can evolve with the people who live here.
With a full bathroom and direct garden access, it works beautifully as a private guest suite. It could just as easily become a media room, gym, creative space, second office, or a combination of uses.
For those who regularly host parents, friends or longer-term guests, the separation is particularly valuable. It offers privacy without disconnecting from the rest of the house.
An Office That Is Actually Separate
The dedicated office solves another problem increasingly important in a Mill Valley home: how to work seriously from home without having work take over the house.
With its own private entrance and separation from the primary living spaces, it feels like a true office rather than a bedroom with a desk in it. Come and go without moving through the house, take meetings without competing with everything happening inside, and close the door at the end of the day.
Combined with the flexible lower level, the house can comfortably accommodate two distinct work-from-home spaces when needed.
Outside, Designed to Be Used
The outdoor spaces have been finished with the same intention as the interiors.
Mature landscaping creates privacy around the garden, while a custom built-in concrete fire pit gives the backyard a natural gathering place. An in-ground hot tub is tucked into the landscape for evenings when going anywhere else feels unnecessary.
Multiple decks connect the house to its views, while the garden gives the lower level its own relationship to the outdoors.
And because the property runs street to street, there is an ease to the site that homes don't always have. Access is available from both Almonte Boulevard and Lilac Lane, with a proper side-by-side two-car garage above.
The Part of Mill Valley Locals Know
Almonte is one of those Mill Valley neighborhoods people tend to discover after they already know Mill Valley.
It sits at an unusually good intersection of town, water and mountain. Tam High is right there. At the base of the neighborhood, the Mill Valley-Sausalito bike path follows Richardson Bay and becomes an easy part of everyday life, whether you're heading out for a morning run, riding into town or continuing along the waterfront toward Sausalito.
Tam Junction puts some of the area's best everyday stops close by: groceries at Good Earth, coffee at Equator, lunch or dinner at Hook Fish, plus the shops and essentials that make it possible to leave the car at home more often than you might expect.
And then Mill Valley opens up in the other direction.
Mt. Tam is above you. Muir Woods and Muir Beach are up the road. Trails, beaches and open space can be part of an ordinary weekday rather than something reserved for the weekend.
San Francisco is close enough for work, dinner or a meeting, but coming home feels distinctly different. The traffic falls away. Bikes move along the path below. Fog shifts across the ridge. Richardson Bay changes with the light.
That contrast is one of the reasons people come to Mill Valley in the first place.
188 Almonte makes particularly good use of it.
Three bedrooms. A dedicated private office. An entire guest/flex level. Three-and-a-half baths. Multiple view decks. Landscaped garden. In-ground hot tub. Built-in fire pit. Street-to-street lot. Side-by-side two-car garage. Richardson Bay views. Solar. Two Tesla Powerwalls. And an extensive renovation that addressed the house from the inside out.
The rare Mill Valley house where the setting is special and the work is already behind you.
Set on a street-to-street lot in Almonte, the house brings together a combination that is surprisingly hard to find in Mill Valley: water views, exceptional natural light, beautifully finished interiors, genuinely useful spaces for working and hosting, outdoor living, a side-by-side two-car garage, and a renovation comprehensive enough that the next owner can simply move in and enjoy it.
The house was extensively rebuilt from the inside out, with new electrical, plumbing, windows, doors and floors, along with solar and two Tesla Powerwalls for energy storage and backup power. This wasn't a renovation focused only on what you can see. The infrastructure was addressed along with the interiors, creating a home that feels considered all the way through.
The result doesn't feel newly renovated so much as resolved. Clean, warm and comfortable, without the inevitable list of projects waiting for the next owner.
The View Level
The main living level is where the house and its setting really come together.
Natural light moves through the open living, dining and kitchen spaces, with Richardson Bay providing the backdrop. Large openings draw you toward an expansive view deck that effectively becomes another room when the weather cooperates, which in this part of Mill Valley is often.
This is where the rhythm of the house changes throughout the day. Coffee outside as the bay catches the morning light. Doors open in the afternoon. Dinner as the light begins to soften across the water.
The kitchen sits naturally at the center of the living spaces rather than feeling separated from them, creating a main level that works equally well for a quiet morning or a house full of people. A powder room completes the floor.
A Private Bedroom Level
One level below, three bedrooms create a quieter, more private part of the house.
The primary suite and two additional bedrooms are joined by two full bathrooms, while another deck creates a second connection to the outdoors and Richardson Bay beyond.
Separating the bedrooms from the main entertaining level gives the house an easy sense of order: social spaces above, private spaces below, and views connecting the two.
An Entire Floor to Use Your Way
Then there is the lower level.
Rather than forcing it into a conventional fourth-bedroom description, this is an entire floor that can evolve with the people who live here.
With a full bathroom and direct garden access, it works beautifully as a private guest suite. It could just as easily become a media room, gym, creative space, second office, or a combination of uses.
For those who regularly host parents, friends or longer-term guests, the separation is particularly valuable. It offers privacy without disconnecting from the rest of the house.
An Office That Is Actually Separate
The dedicated office solves another problem increasingly important in a Mill Valley home: how to work seriously from home without having work take over the house.
With its own private entrance and separation from the primary living spaces, it feels like a true office rather than a bedroom with a desk in it. Come and go without moving through the house, take meetings without competing with everything happening inside, and close the door at the end of the day.
Combined with the flexible lower level, the house can comfortably accommodate two distinct work-from-home spaces when needed.
Outside, Designed to Be Used
The outdoor spaces have been finished with the same intention as the interiors.
Mature landscaping creates privacy around the garden, while a custom built-in concrete fire pit gives the backyard a natural gathering place. An in-ground hot tub is tucked into the landscape for evenings when going anywhere else feels unnecessary.
Multiple decks connect the house to its views, while the garden gives the lower level its own relationship to the outdoors.
And because the property runs street to street, there is an ease to the site that homes don't always have. Access is available from both Almonte Boulevard and Lilac Lane, with a proper side-by-side two-car garage above.
The Part of Mill Valley Locals Know
Almonte is one of those Mill Valley neighborhoods people tend to discover after they already know Mill Valley.
It sits at an unusually good intersection of town, water and mountain. Tam High is right there. At the base of the neighborhood, the Mill Valley-Sausalito bike path follows Richardson Bay and becomes an easy part of everyday life, whether you're heading out for a morning run, riding into town or continuing along the waterfront toward Sausalito.
Tam Junction puts some of the area's best everyday stops close by: groceries at Good Earth, coffee at Equator, lunch or dinner at Hook Fish, plus the shops and essentials that make it possible to leave the car at home more often than you might expect.
And then Mill Valley opens up in the other direction.
Mt. Tam is above you. Muir Woods and Muir Beach are up the road. Trails, beaches and open space can be part of an ordinary weekday rather than something reserved for the weekend.
San Francisco is close enough for work, dinner or a meeting, but coming home feels distinctly different. The traffic falls away. Bikes move along the path below. Fog shifts across the ridge. Richardson Bay changes with the light.
That contrast is one of the reasons people come to Mill Valley in the first place.
188 Almonte makes particularly good use of it.
Three bedrooms. A dedicated private office. An entire guest/flex level. Three-and-a-half baths. Multiple view decks. Landscaped garden. In-ground hot tub. Built-in fire pit. Street-to-street lot. Side-by-side two-car garage. Richardson Bay views. Solar. Two Tesla Powerwalls. And an extensive renovation that addressed the house from the inside out.
The rare Mill Valley house where the setting is special and the work is already behind you.
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Explore the Neighborhood
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Almonte is one of those Mill Valley neighborhoods people discover after they already know Mill Valley. It sits quietly in the flats between Tam Junction and Richardson Bay, at an unusually good meeting point of town, water and mountain. Tam High is right there. So is the Mill Valley–Sausalito bike path, which runs along the base of the neighborhood — less recreation than infrastructure here, whether it's a morning run, a ride into town, or the route to Sausalito along the water.
Tam Junction is the neighborhood's front door, and over the last decade it has become one of the best everyday corners in southern Marin. Good Earth Natural Foods anchors it. Equator Coffees sits inside Proof Lab, the Bay Area's largest surf and skate shop, and serves as the de facto meeting place. Hook Fish Co. handles the casual end from the beer garden, Shoreline Coffee Shop holds down breakfast in a 1962 diner tucked behind Good Earth, and The Junction Beer Garden brings rotating taps, fire pits and weekend live music. Add the everyday essentials and leaving the car at home stops being aspirational.
In the other direction, Mill Valley opens up. Mt. Tam is above you, Muir Woods and Muir Beach up the road, and San Francisco close enough for work or dinner. But coming home to Almonte feels distinctly different. The traffic falls away. Bikes move along the path below. Fog shifts across the ridge.
Tam Junction is the neighborhood's front door, and over the last decade it has become one of the best everyday corners in southern Marin. Good Earth Natural Foods anchors it. Equator Coffees sits inside Proof Lab, the Bay Area's largest surf and skate shop, and serves as the de facto meeting place. Hook Fish Co. handles the casual end from the beer garden, Shoreline Coffee Shop holds down breakfast in a 1962 diner tucked behind Good Earth, and The Junction Beer Garden brings rotating taps, fire pits and weekend live music. Add the everyday essentials and leaving the car at home stops being aspirational.
In the other direction, Mill Valley opens up. Mt. Tam is above you, Muir Woods and Muir Beach up the road, and San Francisco close enough for work or dinner. But coming home to Almonte feels distinctly different. The traffic falls away. Bikes move along the path below. Fog shifts across the ridge.
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