Are you looking for a single level house that has some designer flair to it, without being over the top? Want the garage to be set up and ready for tinkering? Check this out!
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1314-Clear-Crest-Cir-Vista-CA-92084/16630968_zpid/
Nice tour. The owner looks like he’d be a story. While design is subjective, I love seeing someone with the vision and chops to really make a place “his.” I like your Wright reference: so much of the modernism on display today feels merely bought: “Dwell Magazine memorial park.” This guy’s work is inventive and craft-heavy.
I don’t know the ‘hood, but if you can get to the beach within 20 minutes, that price seems to stack up really well.
Great kick-down reset house for empty nesters. With a design-ey pool/water sculpture in that bare yard and a little live bamboo screening, you’d be inclined to just hang out.
Agree with all points – and one of the few houses that could fit the Prop 60 for downsizers. The big complaint about Vista is the school quality but seniors don’t care and appreciate the lower cost instead.
Neat house. It would be even more appealing if items reminding buyers of the frailty of age were removed— e.g. the grab bars and adaptive toilet seat. While admiring the creativity, I felt a little sad thinking about the owner and my own elderly relatives that are struggling to age in place. I guess this is a delicate topic between agent and seller.
Jim, I’d be very interested to see you do a piece about stylish solutions to universal design for aging in place— good looking grab bars, roll-in showers, aftermarket elevators. Just a suggestion.
Unfortunately, the owner is no longer with us. I tried removing one of the
towel rackselder assists but he had them so well installed that it was going to be a major undertaking to get rid of all of them.I saw a new-construction home a few months ago in an upscale subdivision. It was a builder’s house plan that had changes. The owners were in their 60’s and in good health. Yet they chose to make changes “in case anything happened” health-wise in years to come.
Although it wouldn’t be handicapped-accessible bureaucratic-wise in every aspect it was amazing. All the door ways were wider for wheelchairs. Door handles were wide and long for easier access. They even had a smooth transition from the garage into the home with no step-up.
The only sad part, I realized, was that the house was 90% complete and one of notoriously-bad builders here had just gobbled up a huge farmer’s field which bordered the home. This was a very upscale home and now their backyard view was going to be taken up with cheap and infamous housing here for first-time homeowners.The only gap between their backyard and the new development was a short irrigation ditch.
PS – Get good help!