Built in 1964 by Paradise Homes in Henderson, Nevada is
Black Mountain Estates, a collection of approximately four-dozen Palmer &
Krisel homes surrounding the Black Mountain Golf Course. Interspersed with
custom homes from later decades, the buildout of Black Mountain Estates exclusively
with Palmer & Krisel-designed homes was never realized due to a local
housing recession that ran between 1964 and 1968. The end result is that the
Palmer & Krisel homes have become the ‘old’ homes in the development, and
oftentimes homeowners will take drastic steps to modernize them.
This particular floorplan is one that Krisel duplicated
across the west – most recently we featured the same plan in nearby Paradise
Palms, Tucson
and Westminster.
The current homeowners have added their own interpretation and modifications to the home,
and have converted it to a two bedroom, two bathroom 1,225 square-foot home.
With an in-ground pool and above-ground spa on a 10,000 square-foot golf course
lot the asking price on this home is $219,900.
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| 'Before' of home - signature Krisel board and batten siding was still in place |
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| Original kitchen was still instact in 2011 |
The exterior of the home has recently been covered in choppy
lace stucco, which replaced the original signature Krisel vertical board and batten siding.
Original clerestory windows were covered, and the front windows in the former
master bedroom were shortened to no longer extend to the ground. The yard
itself consists of rock and palms, and is a perfect blank slate for a modernist
makeover.
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| Entry |
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| Living room |
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| Kitchen opened to living room |
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| Kitchen |
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| Former master bedroom is now a small dining room |
Inside the home, the current owners have reconfigured the
floor plan significantly, reorienting the living areas and creating a visually
smaller home. Typically, the home would
have been built as a three bedroom, two bathroom with the master at the front of
the home, and the secondary bedrooms split by the entryway. The kitchen would
have sat the center of the home, and would have been flanked with the living
room at the front, and family/dining room at the back.
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| Secondary bedroom |
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| Master bedroom which was once the family room |
On this home, the master bedroom has been converted into a
small dining room, the kitchen has been completely opened and exposed to the
living room, and the family/dining room and rear corner bedroom have been
converted to a large master suite. This creates one less public area by
removing the separate family room, and the kitchen now opened to the living
room allows all the public areas to visually be absorbed at once, giving the
home a small apartment-like feel.
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| Backyard |
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| Backyard |
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| Pool and above ground spa |
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| Covered patio |
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| Pool |
The swimming pool lies at the east side of the home has been
restored, once filled in as a planter, it now holds water. The pool area is
walled in from the rest of the backyard, and is completely private and unseen
from the adjacent golf course fairway. The remainder of the backyard consists
of patchy lawn, and is disconnected from the swimming pool area.
There were some great original elements in this home up
until 2011, and currently the home doesn’t read as midcentury modern, rather it’s
a mix of dissimilar styles. The reconfiguration of the floor plan and removal
of clerestory windows results in no net gains, and creates a visually smaller
space. At the current price it’s not a great restoration candidate, but if
anyone is looking for a long-term project in a quiet community with a beautiful
lot, this home is definitely worth considering.
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