About the Property
Certain homes describe themselves in square footage. 1380 Serene Drive describes itself in days — in the way mornings, work, dinners, and seasons actually move through it. The floor plan's logic becomes clear in the first five minutes. The life it enables is what earns the years.
Days begin on the covered east porch — morning light on arrival, afternoon shade when the heat builds. Inside, red oak hardwood runs the full main level. The formal living and dining rooms hold the front of the house: the rooms for dinners that deserve candles and conversations that deserve a door, positioned where they belong rather than where they happened to fit. A hallway moves deeper, and here the floor plan makes its practical promise — laundry room, half bath, garage entrance, and a main-floor bedroom with enough separation to work two ways: video calls without household traffic, or a guest who stays a week without anyone living around anyone.
Then the house opens entirely, and this is where most of life happens. The kitchen — island, double ovens, gas cooktop, pantry — runs without a wall through the breakfast nook to the family room and its fireplace, which runs without a wall onto the open rear deck — full sky overhead, sun on the boards. Weeknights gather here; weekends spill outside. The yard faces west and south — it holds a Colorado summer's evening light deep past dinner and carries a growing season long enough to garden in earnest. Snow nights belong to the fireplace; June nights belong to the deck.
Upstairs belongs to rest. The primary suite connects directly to its own sitting room, where the suite's fireplace lives — the room that becomes the morning retreat, the reading nook, the office with a door that belongs to one person. Five-piece primary bath. A walk-in closet that actually functions as one. Two additional bedrooms share a second full bath, and the loft absorbs whatever the current year calls for — gym, studio, library.
The garage holds the Colorado life: three and a half bays — a distinction from three that resolves itself the first time bikes, skis, a kayak, cold storage, and two vehicles need to live under one roof — and the trail network that starts at the end of the street is where most of it gets used. The basement holds the future: 1,528 square feet, entirely unfinished, rough-in bath plumbing in place, the concrete floor freshly painted and string lighting overhead — a theater, a gym, a workshop, a fifth bedroom suite, nothing decided yet. No prior choices to undo, no someone else's design to accommodate.
And beneath all of it, the infrastructure is already handled. A Class 4 impact-resistant roof, insurance- replaced in October 2023. A Bryant HVAC system — furnace and air conditioning, replaced in full in 2025 — carrying an enhanced parts warranty through July 2035. A brand new dishwasher and garbage disposal in the granite kitchen. The two systems that carry the greatest financial risk in any home are off the worry list — which means the weekends go to the mountains, not to maintenance.
Vista Pointe's Tax District 3207 produces annual property taxes below neighboring subdivisions — a structural cost advantage that compounds across every year of ownership. Black Rock Elementary, Erie Middle School, Erie High School. St. Vrain Valley RE-1J, ranked 85 out of 100 on standardized testing. The math works as well as the light does.