The brief
Every Blue Sky Studio project begins with listening.
“Our house is stuck in the ’90s, and that patio out back is desolate. Can it ever become a home we actually love?”
About the project
A tired 1990s tract home re-cast as a warm, contemporary Southern California family home — inside and out — with a patio finally worth living on.
Padres Drive arrived as a sealed, decorator-era stucco box with good bones and tired surfaces. The owners — a family who loved to cook, gather, and spend long evenings outside — were desperate to pull their house forward by twenty-five years without losing the neighborhood character that drew them there.
The design reached first for the plan: interior walls were removed to create a single flowing living, family, and kitchen zone, pivoted around a re-drawn fireplace. New windows and doors widened the rear elevation so that the house now breathes toward its patio, not away from it.
Outside, what had been an afterthought of a concrete slab was rebuilt as a deep, shaded loggia and outdoor dining room — the kind of place where dinner with friends naturally drifts until midnight. The renovated exterior and landscape quietly tied the new home back to its street.
Project features
- Open-plan living, family, and kitchen
- Rebuilt fireplace and statement millwork
- Covered outdoor loggia and dining room
- Fresh exterior with layered SoCal landscape
Gallery
Inside the Padres Drive residence.
