Wow!  Tired of boring boxes?  Looking for some sophisticated charm on one of the best blocks?  This classic stucco detached home with its welcoming front porch may be the one.  The home features gorgeous inlaid floors, 9' ceilings and natural woodwork.  The living room ,with a wood burning fireplace, opens to a large dining room with french doors out to the screened in porch.  The open kitchen allows whomever is cooking to be part of what is going on in the rest of the first floor.  Upstairs there is an en-suite bedroom, three others and a hall bath.  The porch off the smallest bedroom has a laundry hook up if you wanted to move the laundry upstairs.  Stairs lead to the third floor, a perfect extra space that could be a bedroom, office, craft room, play room; you choose.  The lower level has a one bedroom in-law suite with rear door.  The fully fenced rear yard is surprisingly private with enough space to create parking if one wanted to.  The block is especially tight knit with a block list serve and an annual Memorial Day party where they close the street and have all kinds of festivities!  The Chevy Chase Playground  is at the end of the block  You are blocks from all that upper Connecticut Ave has to offer; Safeway, tons of restaurants, a fish market, Politics and Prose and other conveniences.  In the other direction is Red line metro  (.4 mi), shopping and restaurants of Friendship Heights.  Several bus lines are easily accessible as are several major commuting arteries.