2849 Rocky Ridge Ave SE Salem, OR 97306

Some houses are just houses. This one has been lived in, loved, and transformed by people who know exactly what they are doing.Walk through the door and it is immediately clear this is not a standard 2004 spec home anymore. Four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and every room reflecting years of careful, skilled work. Curved archways flow between living spaces, the kitchen shines with upgraded cabinetry and a gorgeous glass tile backsplash, and glass-paned doors open from the dining room onto a back terrace shaded by mature trees. Inside and outside feel like one continuous living space.Step into the yard and the story gets even better. When these sellers arrived in 2021, this quarter-acre lot was bare dirt. Today it is a showpiece: lush lawn, blooming roses, Japanese maples, colorful perennial borders, raised planting beds, stepping stone paths, and a pergola arbor overhead. Every plant, every bed, every path was put there by their own hands over five years of passionate work.Out back the property shifts into another gear entirely. A 17x36 detached shop with concrete floor, soaring 13-plus-foot ceilings, full shop lighting, built-in shelving lining both walls, 220-power, and a tall drive-through door. Sub-panel on site. A 9x16 secondary workshop sits attached with its own floor, full-wall workbench, and upper shelving for serious project work. Around the corner a finished bonus room with painted walls, exposed beam ceiling, built-in shelving, and a private entrance awaits. She shed, studio, home office, or extra storage: whatever you need it to be. Gated gravel side area handles RV storage, a boat, or extra vehicles. The oversized 20x21 garage with a 7x7 bonus space rounds it all out.Cedar shake and stacked stone exterior. Pergola-framed entry. Private dead-end street. No HOA. SE Salem, minutes to South Salem High School, parks, and I-5. $559,900.