Opportunity knocks with this midcentury 1955 Palmer &
Krisel-designed home in Pomona’s Valwood Estates. This well-worn home features
four bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,200 square feet and a detached two-car
garage on a 6,200 square-foot lot with an asking price of $325,000.
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Entry courtyard |
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Original floor plan and elevation from Valwood Estates sales brochure |
Built as the Valwood Estates Model B2, this diminutive home
holds lots of potential. The home sits
with its gable end towards the street, while the detached garage carries a shed
roofline almost creating a zig-zag patterned roofline. A thick green hedgerow separates
the front yard from the sidewalk, while the front yard itself is ready for a modernist
drought-friendly makeover.
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Dining room |
The front door sits on the side of the home located in the entry
courtyard between the home and detached garage. The entryway opens up to the
rear-facing living room, dining room and kitchen. The living room still
features its original cut stone fireplace, now painted white and hidden from
view in the listing photos by couches.
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Dining room |
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Living room |
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Kitchen |
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Kitchen with entry beyond |
The dining room sits at the rear corner of the home, with windows
overlooking the backyard. The south-facing clerestory windows have been painted
over, cutting down on the amount of natural light entering the home. Opposite
the living and dining rooms are the kitchen and laundry, the latter of which provides
access to the backyard. The kitchen appears to have been updated at some point
in the mid-1970s, with tile countertops, dark wood cabinetry and white
appliances.
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Bedroom |
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Bedroom |
The bedrooms show fairly tight, as four bedrooms in 1,200
square feet is a lot to pack in. Luckily all rooms feature their original open
beamed celotex ceilings, helping to add volume to small spaces. Like the rear
of the home, the north-facing clerestories at the front of the home have been
painted over, no longer allowing natural light to illuminate the spaces.
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Bathroom |
The bathrooms appear to have been updated in the same era as
the kitchen, and are at least functional. While there are no listing photos, the backyard is very much a blank
slate, with large trees shade along the south perimeter and a patchy lawn ready
to be converted to entertaining space or a water-conserving landscape.
While the property shows cluttered, there’s lots of
potential to breathe new modernist life into this midcentury Palmer &
Krisel home.
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