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A Quiet Day in a Mid-Century Bay Area 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 a day just observing the light and space in this house in the Bay Area. It's a classic mid-century build, with an atrium at its core right after you walk through the bright red front door. The space is mostly empty, which makes it easier to appreciate the architecture itself.

Inside, there's a living room with a heavy brick fireplace and exposed ceiling beams painted blue. The light coming through the large windows is soft and diffused. From another room, you can look straight out through walls of glass to the backyard, where a still, blue pool sits waiting for warmer weather.

The kitchen is simple, with white cabinets and tiled countertops. The whole back of the house seems to open up to the patio and the yard. It's late February, so the big deciduous trees are still bare, their branches making patterns against the overcast sky. It’s quiet here, just the house and its surroundings.

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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