Originally built in 1962, Schuyler Residence is a 3,000 Sqft mid-century hillside home whose renovation begins with an act of restraint: preserving the quiet confidence of the original architecture while recalibrating it for contemporary life.

The exterior is kept deliberately calm and monochromatic, allowing the house to sit quietly against the hillside while the interiors reveal a warmer, more tactile world within. The presentation frames this contrast directly: a serene exterior, a natural interior, and a renewed connection to nature through framed views, greenery, and light.

Inside, the house becomes more expressive. The renovation resists the easy path of making a mid-century home uniformly pale and anonymous; instead, it brings back the period’s confidence with color, contrast, and atmosphere. The oxblood foyer acts almost like a cinematic threshold — compressed, shadowed, and saturated — before the house opens into brighter rooms connected to view and landscape. Colorful stone, warm wood, and deeper tonal shifts appear throughout as deliberate architectural moments rather than decorative gestures, allowing the home to feel contemporary while still alluding to the optimism and specificity of its 1962 origins.

The result is a renovation that feels neither nostalgic nor aggressively new. It alludes to the optimism of mid-century California living — openness, informality, light, landscape — while giving the home the precision and atmosphere expected of a contemporary residence.

3,000 sqft
Status: On the boards