Sunnyvale, California - a house designed by Jones & Emmons and built by Eichler Homes

9/09/2025 10:23:00 AM

Here is a house of only 1,613 square feet which gives you four bedrooms, two baths, a 33'-long living-dining room and a family room-kitchen as large as 21' x 17'-all exceptionally well related to each other.

Instead of wasting land on a front lawn to dazzle the neighbors, the architects placed carport and garage close to the street, leaving space behind them for a courtyard. Since it has a high fence and a gate controlled by push button from the kitchen, small children can play there safely without running into the street. The court makes a handsome outdoor living area and it has another inestimable virtue: it separates the living and sleeping wings of the house, giving seclusion to each. The key location of the kitchen is a prize asset. A young mother is really in control of the whole house there, indoors and out. Rear terrace, front door, entrance court, family room and dining room are only a step or two from the kitchen. The house is also simple to maintain. All ceilings are stained, tongue-and-groove redwood boarding. Inside walls are stained Philippine mahogany and outside walls are stained fir plywood. So repainting every few years is unnecessary. Flooring in all rooms is resilient vinyl asbestos, comfortable underfoot and readily mopped. In the concrete slab beneath it, radiant heating coils give clean, even warmth automatically. Altogether this is a house that can stand up to children's hard use. But nowhere, inside or out, has attractive appearance been sacrificed.