Siteline | Midcentury Panache on the Lower Riviera

Noteworthy new listings….

The two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house at 970 Jimeno Road ($3 million), just below Alameda Padre Serra, has midcentury flair the likes of which we don’t see often. Designed by Arendt, Mosher & Grant, it was built in 1957 and has been furnished accordingly. (The listing implies that the decor might be included, or at least for sale, too.) The combination of midcentury scarcity and the view make me think the property will go for over ask.

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Bring your imagination when you visit 3236 Campanil Drive ($4.995 million), a 1972 ranch house in the middle of a gut reno. (The staging is surreal, but it helps you understand which room you’re in.) The Campanil location is great, with broad ocean views from the front half of the house and a decent-size backyard. It’s not huge (2,462 square feet), and you can’t build up, so the temptation would be to convert the attached garage into living space and add a new garage elsewhere on the property.

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The exterior of 1720 Mission Ridge Road ($3.695 million) looks like a cross between a Jeff Shelton work—even before you zoom in on the ironwork that’s obviously by David Shelton—and something more suburban; the relatively minimalist interiors skew toward the latter. The 1970 house sits close to the road, with most of the .34 acre behind it.

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Three doors down is 1816 E. Las Tunas Road ($4.1 million), a single-level spiffer-upper built in 1957. In a perfect world, the driveway wouldn’t pass in front of the house; on the other hand, you have to admire the front terrace’s ocean view, fireplace, and wet bar.

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A new-build in San Roque is rare, but here’s 3218 Calle Pinon ($3.2 million), with charming details throughout. I would have liked to see it in person, to get a better sense of quirks in the floor plan: there’s an empty space near the stairs that I’d have traded for a foyer; only one of the three guest rooms is en suite; and the middle-aged man in me is wary of the distance between primary bedroom and its bath.

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The farther you go from town, the more you can get for your money. Take 329 Vereda del Ciervo ($3.895 million), in the Rancho Embarcadero community across the freeway from the Ritz-Carlton Bacara. The compound includes a four-bedroom house with ADU, tennis court, and funky-shaped pool. Aside from some bold painting, the interiors appear not to have been touched since the house was built in 1990.