A drive-by berm at curbside and greenery at the entry off a circular driveway double screen a 1965 Briargrove home from its San Felipe location across from Briargrove Elementary School, west of Fountainview Dr. Once past the privacy plantings, however, window walls let in the light and the sights. A recently updated kitchen freshened the property, which emerged from hiding a week ago and has a $799,ooo asking price.

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The landscaping continues to a set of Frenchish-trimmed glass-paneled entry doors at the end of a walkway that passes front rooms flanking that leafy approach (above).

Living and dining areas share a common room of Travertine flooring installed on the diagonal and large-scale windows:

The kitchen features new appliances and a granite island with a lip for counter-height seating:

An informal dining area . . .

is open to the adjacent family room, which appears to have a skylight:

The 3,414-sq.-ft. floor plan has 3 bedrooms and this study . . .

which warms up the space with a gas-connect fireplace:

Walls of windows and of mirrors make most of the master suite a view finder:

At the back of the 10,140-sq.-ft. lot, the patio accommodates seating and lazing space:

Somewhere in all the shrubbery softening the parking area that paves the front “yard,” there’s an automated gate with driveway to a 2-car garage:

Traffic flows westward on the (slightly) divided section of San Felipe St. this property fronts.

• 6138 San Felipe St. [HAR]