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$890 / 1br - Room Available in Friendly North Berkeley Co-op (berkeley north / hills)
colusa, Berkeley, CA 94707
colusa near sonoma
1BR / 2Ba
available feb 1, 2027
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If you are interested in living with us, please fill out this short form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2hpLoRBYi8OExct-YjHtQUwtEFL-NXIRohFJNMjLKcKNsBQ/viewform by Sunday, November 22 to ensure we’ll look at your application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Keep an eye on your email for a reply from us.
See photos of the our Common Spaces (kitchen, dining room, living room, yard) here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mUVPgU_k-zyjgufsf4iZCicUdKVzrdr8?usp=sharing
About the Attic Room
The room is a cozy attic room on the third floor. It is accessed via a set of stairs through a short door. There is room to stand in the center if you’re under ~5’10, but the room has slanted ceilings meeting in the middle. It has a large skylight window that lets in a lot of natural light. There is ample storage space in the slanted areas on either side of the room. The attic room also comes with a walk-in closet that is accessed by walking from the attic room down into the upstairs common space ( aka, “the Penthouse”, described below).
This room opens onto a quiet common space area (“the Penthouse”) with a skylight and a window overlooking Berkeley, Oakland, SF, and the Bay. The sunsets are beautiful from this view and at night. This room has mostly been used communally, but there is potential for a couple (or friends!) to rent this as their own space to turn into a “penthouse suite.”
The Penthouse also has a little guest room lovingly called the Nook in the eaves of the house.
Due to the configuration of the house, there are two options we are offering to our potential housemate(s). We have a preference for offering just the attic room and the closet while keeping the penthouse as a common space for all. However, we can discuss the second option further based on your situation and needs. The two options are each priced as follows:
Option 1 (preferred): Attic Room + walk-in closet:
Total rent for one person renting out the Attic room, with the closet in the Penthouse, is $890.
Total rent for two people would be $1196 per month, or $598 per person.
Option 2: Penthouse Suite (Attic room + Penthouse room + Nook + walk-in closet)
Rent for one person in the Suite: $1,592
Rent for two people in the Suite: Total rent would be $1,796 per month for two people, or $888 per person.
See photos of the Attic Room here:
Attic Room
Please note that we will be adding curtains to the side storage areas in the attic before you move in!
Other costs:
Additional costs per month per person total around $375 per person. This includes:
~$250 for vegetarian food share, mostly locally sourced. We eat very well here and have pretty comprehensive bulk bins, spices, fresh vegetables and dairy, etc. There is almost always dinner leftovers and homemade treats.
~$100 for electricity and utilities.
~$25 for additional shared costs for house supplies such as laundry detergent, soap, etc.
New residents also need to pay their last month’s rent plus a security deposit. The security deposit is $333 for an individual person or $572 ($286 each for 2 people), and it will be returned upon move-out.
Some things to note:
There are currently two cats living in the house. If you have mild to severe allergies, this may not be a good fit.
We are not able to accept other cats or dogs at this time, but if you have a pet in a tank/terrarium/cage, that should be fine (as long as they are able to co-exist with cats)
The house is low-scent but not scent-free.
Unfortunately, the house is not wheelchair accessible.
Shared food and dinners are vegetarian by default, although some of us use the kitchen to cook meat on occasion.
We are looking for a new coop member who is a good fit and looking to live with us for at least 1-2 years. Ideally, we’ll find someone who resonates with the following qualities. (We understand one person may not meet all of these criteria.)
Community-Minded: You want to actively participate in creating and maintaining a social home environment where everyone feels cared for and are excited about living communally. This includes spending time at home in common spaces and taking the initiative in organizing and participating in group activities. Community care is important to you, and you are willing to step up when you have capacity and ask for help when your capacity is low.
Systems-Oriented and Organized: You appreciate maintaining and designing house systems that work for everyone, keeping the Nookery a well-oiled machine! You are relatively tidy and organized; managing key processes and scheduling tasks such as house meeting scheduling, housemate search process, etc. feels like a relatively low lift, and you’d be happy to take on those items.
Proactive: You are excited to actively contribute to maintaining and enhancing the space by pitching in to clean and spearhead house and garden projects.
Silly and Playful: A sense of humor, playfulness, and creativity is important to you. You like laughing together and contributing to a lively, fun, and nurturing home environment.
Grounded: You are grounded and emotionally attuned to others.
Cook and Dinner Host: You enjoy cooking and are excited to cook for large groups of people.
Handy and Tech-Savy: You are relatively handy around the house, and are down to fix broken things (or at least give it a shot!). Ideally, you are tech-savvy too and are down to help troubleshoot tech issues in the house (think wifi, spreadsheets, etc.)
Kind Communicator: You are loving, kind, and considerate in your communication, fostering a positive and supportive atmosphere through nonviolent communication and bringing a sense of warmth and understanding to interactions.
Social Network: You have your own community here, and/or are excited to bring others into the social fabric of the Nookery.
About the house:
🌱 Indoor space: We live in a big, old, eccentrically renovated house with a variety of charmingly crafted nooks and rooms. There is a large dining room and living room, a well-organized kitchen, a sunny breakfast nook, a penthouse/hang space, a locked bike/tool shed, a secret guest room, and a guest sleeping nook. There are six bedrooms and three bathrooms. The house has a dishwasher and clothes washer and dryer.
☀️Outdoor space: The property has a fenced backyard and deck, a front garden, as well as the Redwood Cafe (couch and coffee table under a beautiful redwood tree) in our side yard.
🍽️ Meals: We have (very delicious) vegetarian dinners together five nights per week, Sun-Thurs. Attendance is encouraged but not required, and we love to have lots of friends over for big meals around the table.
🧽 Shared Chores: We are mindfully clean, and have a rotating shared chore system. We deep clean the kitchen weekly (each person does a deep clean of the kitchen once every ~5 weeks). House responsibilities add up to an average of 4 hours/week per person (cooking, cleaning, chores, etc.). We have monthly house meetings (mandatory).
👋 Neighborhood: Our neighborhood is quiet and the immediate neighbors are laid-back and nice. We are a 10 minute walk to Monterey Market, a 20 minute walk/10 minute bike ride to North Berkeley BART, a 20 minute walk/10 minute bike ride to downtown Berkeley, a 10 minute walk to Indian Rock, and a 10 minute drive to Tilden Regional Park. There are a few different bus routes that stop within a few blocks of us. There is also ample parking around the house if you own a car.
About us:
We are friendly, caring, and committed to our shared space and the others in the house. Some of us work fully at home, some on a hybrid schedule or in the service industry, meaning there are many days during Monday-Friday that we often are at home together, either working in our own rooms or co-working in our many common spaces. We often end up joining up for lunch or cooking together in the middle of the day. We like to hang together as a house, having long dinner chats, watching movies, dancing in the kitchen, being goofy, or going off to do things in the neighborhood. We enjoy low-key dinner parties with friends, with a rowdier party or two during the year.
Below are the values we hold as a house:
Home Initiative – We make an active effort to step up to create and maintain an organized, functional space that works for everyone. We practice direct and respectful communication about differences in needs in the home space.
Loving and Playful – We treat each other with kindness, practice open and direct communication, and choose interdependence with one another– both providing and asking for help when needed. We enjoy laughing together, being silly, and welcoming to each other’s weirdness.
Sharing and Growing Connections – The Nookery is a place of connection, with impromptu gatherings of housemates and friends. We put effort towards our community and strive to create a space that not only generates connections among housemates, but nourishes our extended friend network and community.
Diversity of Experience – We value diversity of life experience, and co-creating a space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities feel they belong.
Current Residents:
A (Greek/ Jewish/ cis-female/ 30 yrs) A works in climate and cooks, bakes, and throws pottery to treat her burnout. You’ll often find her humming whatever tune is stuck in her head, thinking about how we build a better future, and talking in a terrible British accent.
B (white/ Jewish/ cis-female/ 30 yrs) B works in the climate change space and believes community is a central point in finding meaning throughout the climate crisis. She’s an extrovert who enjoys making and laughing at dumb jokes, going to the YMCA with other roommates, queer line dancing, thrifting, picking up a new artistic hobby, and generally being among friends. She also has an adorable cat, Lil’ Chickpea, who lives in the Nookery.
T (white+latina/cis-female/37 yrs) T enjoys poetry, sci-fi, flowers, opera, gay stuff, tending to the indoor plant jungle in the house, and creating interesting events for friends. She works from home during weekdays. She identifies as a queer femme introvert. She is cat parent to Artemis the kitten.
M (Female/ 36 yrs) M works in the service industry and enjoys traveling and pursuing creative projects such as sculpture and printmaking. Always up for a good conversation (about anything and everything) and goofing off, she is a lover of dinner gatherings and casual adventures.
M (white/cis-female/ 33 yrs) M is a family therapist who loves to connect deeply and be silly and playful. She is a queer, energized ambivert who enjoys following whatever her neurodivergent hyperfocus fixations land on. You can find her solo traveling, enjoying long meals with others, and thinking of (but not always executing) fun gathering ideas.
Lil’ Chickpea (cat/ 3 yrs) LC loves lounging in sunny spots and curling up on your lap for some cozy cuddles. She is playful, affectionate, and will greet you with love and warmth after a long day. She is still navigating boundaries with Artemis.
Artemis (kitten/ 6 months) Missy is the newest, tiniest addition to our household. She’s a little shy at first, but she loves playing, climbing, snuggling, and annoying her older sister Chickpea.
Notes on COVID:
Everyone living in the house has gotten the COVID vaccine.
We have an explicit, collectively generated house policy to guide how we will respond when a housemate is exposed or infected with COVID. We have minimized conflict by being careful and communicative as we try to balance individual comfort-zones, safety, and social needs.
Thank you for reading this post! If you are interested in living with us, please fill out this short form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2hpLoRBYi8OExct-YjHtQUwtEFL-NXIRohFJNMjLKcKNsBQ/viewform by November 22 and keep an eye on your email for a reply from us!