Have you nearly lost hope that there is a wonderfully-updated detached home w/ a yard in a fun/vibrant/popular neighborhood sub-$500k to call your own? This wonderfully-updated home is clean & cute and also an amazing combination of form & function.  It has a soul and curb appeal that will likely excite you & impress your friends.  While not huge, it's pretty spacious because the layout and design is so wise.  It can have two bedrooms + a home workspace + dining area + an outdoor living space that will probably greatly exceed your expectations [and make you a super-hero to your pup compared to being in a condo].  The back yard will be a wonderful place to entertain or to just decompress with your bare feet in the grass.  Few people need an introduction to NW Denver's Berkeley neighborhood – so you probably already know of the 40+ great restaurants and hang-outs within 1.5 miles.  Yes, this house is just a few blocks from the northern edge of the neighborhood nearby Regis University (still very much a part of Berkeley), but its skipping or crawling distance from a few of the neighborhoods absolute favorite spots including Rocky Top, Brooklyn's Finest Pizza and Gold Spot Brewing Company (and their delicious food trucks). It's very-much within walking distance of everything hot on Tennyson.  Rocky Mountain Lake Park is one block away and Berkeley Lake Park, with a library, tennis and the City's best dog park is nine blocks away.  This side of I-70 is often on the up-wind side reducing the traffic noise which is not heard inside the house at-all and almost unnoticeable outside.  Access to the freeway from here makes commuting by car a cinch to anyplace in the City – and bikeability from here is pretty amazing too.