524 12th Avenue E, Unit 301Seattle, WA 98102Price: $1,150,000

Some homes reveal everything at the door. This one has a secret. First you feel a bright, airy, open layout with windows on 3 sides. The great room flows from the kitchen and out to a covered terrace, and nothing looks back at you but the views. They arrive at a gracious distance, the charming traditional rooflines of North Capitol Hill, and threaded between them the downtown skyline, the Space Needle and the Olympic Mountains. By every rule it should feel exposed. Instead it feels private, the rare luxury of space, light, views, and privacy at one residence. And what a home: residential North Capitol Hill, flanked on two sides by Cap Hill's best food and drink. Far enough from the Pike-Pine chaos to breathe yet close enough to still feel cool. Close enough to Volunteer Park to call it yours, yet never more than a couple blocks from a destination dinner. So back to the secret. Is it the kitchen with Calacatta quartz vein-matched from counter to cabinet and a deep basin with matching filtered water tap? The tall ceilings in every room? The primary suite with dual walk-ins and a spa-clean bath of floating vanity and clean stone. The community garden in back? What about the two truck-sized spaces easy to electrify and next to your storage of rare proportion, already electrified. Oh no, the secret is above the home: in the laundry room the size of some Cap Hill bedrooms, lies a private passage climbing to your own rooftop patio and those 10/10 living-room views suddenly become 11