This efficient split plan layout provides 2 en-suite bedrooms and a third full bath for the additional bedroom. There is even a powder room for guests. That's 3 bedrooms and 3 and one-half baths for what many might call “entry level pricing” in this West of Trail “museum area” neighborhood. This is truly an open plan which creates a feeling of spaciousness. The kitchen overlooks the great room which is wonderfully arranged as a Living, Dining and Family room with recessed lighting, crown moulding and long sight lines out into the fenced back yard with a largw paver patio. Adjacent to the dining room you'll find a unique dry bar with a wine refrigerator. There is even an interior laundry closet! Just about everything has been updated in the last 8 years so you'll find fashionable plank style tile flooring throughout, and stainless-steel appliance package and crisp cabinetry in the kitchen with a convenient, marble breakfast bar. The baths also have marble counters and updated fixtures. Insurance companies may favor the hip roof with an 8-year-old shingle. Sapphire Heights is an aptly named neighborhood because it is well above the flood zone but close enough to Sun Circle Bayfront Park that you may enjoy evening sunsets over Sarasota Bay. Just two miles north of downtown Sarasota and nestled among some of Sarasota's most significant cultural and educational institutions. Live here and your neighbors will be the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Asolo Theater of Performing Arts which is home to the Sarasota Ballet and Florida Studio Theater, the University of South Florida and the Ringling College of Art and Design. You will also be conveniently close to the University Parkway corridor anchored on the west by the Sarasota Bradenton Airport and the University Town Center shopping district on the east.