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Walking Through a Mid-Century San Francisco House

·San Francisco, California·#winter#bay area#architecture#interior#mid-century-modern
A courtyard with concrete paving, garden beds, a red open door, frosted windows, and a glass table under skylights.

Spent the afternoon inside an empty mid-century house in San Francisco, the whole plan organized around an atrium at the core. You come in through a pair of red doors under a glazed roof and you're still not indoors — planting beds, rocks, a concrete path, sliding glass on three sides before you reach an actual room. Post-and-beam construction all the way through, low-slope roof, blue-painted beams crossing the living room ceiling above a brick fireplace that runs floor to ceiling.

Someone had left a book about Eichler homes on the tile counter in the kitchen, which answered the question of who built the place. The kitchen itself is barely separated from anything — a counter, a hood, then a full glass wall sliding open onto the back patio, so the yard reads as part of the floor plan rather than something past it.

The rooms were bare, curtains still hanging, whoever lived here already gone. Out back, a pool with a diving board and a row of tall redwoods behind the fence, patio furniture set out at the edge like the last people just stepped away from it.

An empty room features a brick fireplace, beige carpet, light walls, and a white paneled ceiling with blue beams.A room with a tiled floor looking out through glass doors to a brick patio, garden, and swimming pool.A kitchen with white upper and lower cabinets, tiled backsplash and countertops, a sink, dishwasher, and refrigerator.A backyard swimming pool with a concrete patio, surrounded by a fence, tall trees, and garden furniture.A modern house with a striped awning and large glass windows overlooks a brick patio, surrounded by trees.A large bare tree stands over a lawn and buildings with a pool in the foreground under an overcast sky.A mid-century modern house with a flat roof and large windows, built around a large tree, with a green lawn.A brick building with a dark flat roof, large windows, a large tree, green grass, and a curved concrete path.

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