SocketSite™

Its too bad that the rear and front facades cannot be swapped here. The rear facade is great, nicely balanced, and elegant. The front facade seems to draw from early 70s tract home influences.

And what's up with that tub within a tub ? Is it specifically designed to be extra difficult to clean ? You'd need some sort of special brush to clean out that perimeter trench.

Nice house, nice location, scary price.

Not impressed. That faux stone on the rear facade is just atrocious. It's basically just glued on. Who does that? except for decorators who just "decorate". Architecturally, that stone facade stuff is very dishonest and cheap looking.

Why not just name the designer in the article?

I am puzzled by the room with the stump in it. Is that art? I guess when you can spend $5M on a house, you can afford to devote a room to your stump collection.

the stump may be the least artistic part of that fantastic room. I love the stairs, the floor, the recessed baseboard and the quality of the lighting. does anyone know who the contractor was?

That ain't no stump, the bottom cut was from at least three feet above ground.

chunk-o-trunk

As for the glued on stone, I wouldn't consider it atrocious as it is clearly not intended to hide its superficiality. I doubt anyone would think that you could cantilever a solid stone slab that long. I give it a "B" finishing material. Bay area balloon construction affords only a couple of "honest" finishes : clapboard or stucco. Anything else must be glued on (or built traditionally but very expensively to meet seismic codes.)

I prefer the Maybeck.

Tetris, Tetris, Tetris.

$4.2; I really don't think so.

Toilet roll parade in the bathroom! The foot level lights along the stairs area nice touch. It is really hard to put a price on a view like that, plus that area is swank and only getting more so. I'd love to but this place and plant big, fast growing trees everywhere just for the iconoclastic effect.

abc:

You're not puzzled, you're stumped.

Don't know who the contractor was, but the architect was Mark English (www.markenglisharchitects.com) and, of course, the owner (designer Geoffry De Sousa) had a lot to do with the details like the stairs, lighting, and whatnot.

I live on Palo Alto. This place is beautiful, The facade was updated but the form was kept because of neighbor requests to the city during the permit process. I Attended the hearing...Incredible views and great indoor outdoor living.

The list price for 206 Palo Alto has been reduced $205,000 (5%), now asking $3,995,000.

The listing for 206 Palo Alto has been withdrawn from the MLS without a reported sale.