$3.5 Million Homes in California

San Luis Obispo | $3.5 million

A hilltop house built in 1994, on 160 acres

This property includes a three-bedroom, two-bathroom main house and a two-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse in the See Canyon section of San Luis Obispo, a 10-minute drive from Pirates Cove Beach, on the San Luis Obispo Bay. The property has a well and a water purification system, plus private hiking trails, a garden and chicken coop, and an orchard with lemon, avocado, and stone fruit trees.

The center of town, including the campus of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, is 15 minutes away by car. Driving to Santa Barbara takes around 90 minutes, and both Monterey and Bakersfield are two-and-a-half hours away.

Size: 3,665 square feet

Price per square foot: $955

Indoors: A long driveway leads from the street to a brick driveway, with a path leading from here to the front door.

Inside is a foyer with wide-plank hardwood floors, with a sitting area to one side and the kitchen on the other. Beyond the sitting area is a built-in banquette, and at the far end of this side of the house is a living room with a gas fireplace and sliding-glass doors that open to a stone patio.

In the kitchen, the countertops are a mix of marble and butcher block, and the stainless steel appliances include a Viking range and a Sub-Zero refrigerator. The white farmhouse sink sits beneath a wide window that looks out over the distant hills.

All three bedrooms in the main house are off a hallway extending from the foyer. The primary suite has high ceilings and a wood-burning stove. It’s bathroom has travertine tile, a walk-in shower and a soaking tub. A den off the primary bedroom has three walls of windows and direct access to an outdoor patio.