San Diego has seen quite a few Palmer & Krisel homes
come on the market lately, including this Palmer & Krisel-designed home
built by the Drogin Construction Company in Tierra Del Cerro. Slightly expanded
to 1,850 square feet, this home includes four bedrooms and two bathrooms and a
two-car garage on a large 1/4 –acre lot with an in-ground pool and an carries
an asking price of $559,000.
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| Front of home |
Situated on Airoso Drive, the home sits above Interstate 8,
separated by a small tree row, but still subject to some front yard noise. The
front yard is low water use, with gravel mulch and a few small shrub plantings.
The exterior of the home features a side entry garage with a flat roof,
juxtaposed against the gable end of the home, while the original clerestory
windows have all been covered over, and mullioned white vinyl windows have
replace original aluminum framed openings.
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| Living room and entry |
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| Living room |
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| Living room with kitchen beyond |
Inside the home, the living room sits at the front of the
home, separated from the entry with by an original three-quarter-height
demising wall. Plush dusty rose carpeting fills the home, a color not seen too
often these days, and the original open beamed ceilings are still intact but
painted white. The original modernist fireplace against the west wall of the
living room has been replaced with a traditional flat-fronted marble-surrounded
firebox.
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| Dining room in fourth bedroom |
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| Family room |
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| Family room |
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| Kitchen |
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| Kitchen |
A family room sits at the rear of the home adjacent to the
kitchen, with a small bump-out adding on square footage to the home, while the
dining room sits in the fourth bedroom at the front of the home. The kitchen
sits at the rear of the home adjacent to the family room, and has been updated
with traditional raised-panel cabinetry, laminate and tile counters and a
mixture of appliance colors. A large sliding glass door leads into the
backyard, and a pass through to the family room has been added.
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| Master bedroom |
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| Master bathroom |
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| Secondary bedroom |
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| Secondary bedroom |
The master bedroom sits at the rear of the home, and
features more dusty rose carpeting along with some pretty heavy-duty drapes.
The master bathroom still maintains its original marble vanity and American Standard
Pullmans above floating cabinetry, but nearly everything else was last updated
in the early 1980s. The secondary bedrooms resemble the master bedroom in terms
of décor, and sit along the east side of the home and overlook the side yard.
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| Pool and backyard |
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| Backyard and back of home |
The home backs to a hillside lot, with the backyard
containing a pretty decent uphill slope. An in-ground pool sits at the center
of the north-facing backyard, surrounded by a reddish concrete patio space. A
raised patio sits behind the pool, taking creative advantage of the hillside
topography, and a natural planting area bisected by a privacy hedge sits beyond
the pool.
Despite the freeway frontage, this home would make a great
restoration project, with great bones and a large yard offering a world of
possibilities.
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