Long Beach Palmer & Krisel Home For Sale – Long Beach, CA

  

Sited in northern Long Beach, CA is this 1955 Palmer & Krisel-designed home for sale. With four bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,312 slightly expanded square feet all on a 5,900 square-foot lot, the asking price of this minor fixer home is $439,999.

Driveway and front of home

Front of home 

The home sits behind a patchy lawn on a lot devoid of trees, giving the front yard an instant opportunity for a re-visioning. The front of the home remains virtually untouched, with the original board and batten accents adjacent to the front door and original single-panel garage door featuring the same paneling. Two of the bedroom windows facing the street have been shortened, but their original frames remain in place.

The home features two additions; a small addition at the front of the home connecting the formerly detached garage to the main dwelling structure, and a most-likely non-permitted addition at the rear of the home (judging by the square footage) appearing as if a covered patio evolved over time into a habitable room.

Living room 

Living room 

Living room 

Addition at rear of home 

The kitchen sits off the entry at the front of the home while the living and original dining nook sit at the rear. The living room still features its original unpainted stacked brick modernist fireplace. The clerestories on the side of the home are still intact; the living room once overlooked the backyard through large glass windows, but now accesses the non-permitted addition at the rear of the home. The rear addition features a questionable drop ceiling under a shallow pitched roof, and three walls of glass overlooking the south-facing back yard.

Kitchen and breakfast nook

Kitchen and entry

The kitchen has been expanded and pushed into the former breezeway that once stood between the home and carport, and features updates from the late 1980s or early 1990s. An L-shaped wall of raised-panel cabinetry sits at the front of the home, and a column from the original front of the home once stood sits now in the center of the room. The laundry sits in it’s original location tucked between the kitchen and original dining/living room, and a door adjacent to the fridge provides access to the two-car garage.

Secondary bedroom 

Master bedroom 

Guest bath

Master bath

Secondary bedroom 

The bedrooms in this home are relatively small in size, and both end bedrooms still feature their original clerestory windows. Both bathrooms have been updated over time, and are in need of another update to better reflect the modernist architecture of the home.

Backyard

Addition and backyard

Like the front yard, the backyard is devoid of trees, and consists of flat, patchy turf. The addition sits on the former patio space, leaving the backyard with minimal usable patio space. There’s plenty of opportunity to create a modernist makeover within the space, and add some trees to the south-facing space.

This home presents a great opportunity for those looking for a modest fixer that can be taken back to its modernist roots.

Check out the full listing on Redfin.com here: 3240 E La Jara Street

Midcentury Long Beach Palmer & Krisel Home For Sale – Long Beach, CA

Fresh off a bank-ownership and mediocre flipper stint is this 1955 Long Beach Palmer & Krisel-designed home in need of a little infusion of midcentury modern. With three bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,200 square feet, this home includes a detached two-car garage and sits on a 6,100 square-foot lot and carries a low asking price of only $475,000.

Front of home

Selling recently for $360,200, this home has undergone a quick and mediocre flip and fix which removed a large non-permitted structure at the rear of the home, placed new countertops in the kitchen, and added a fresh coat of paint throughout the home.

The front exterior of the home has seen a layer of chunky lace stucco added to it, along with a theme of fan-lights in the front and garage doors. The front yard is blank slate, unresolved by the current owner who only added a few new plants to the front planters. A patchy lawn sits between the sidewalk and front door, and the absence of trees makes the exterior appear barren and sparse.

Living room 

Living room 

Inside the home, the living room and kitchen sit at the rear of the home, while the dining room sits towards the front along with the master, which is split from the secondary bedrooms. The living room is anchored by a clean-lined brick veneered fireplace, and overlooks the backyard through a large sliding glass back door.

Kitchen and laundry

Kitchen 

Kitchen 

Dining room 

The kitchen is adjacent to the living room, and features older, non-original cabinetry that has been freshly painted white. Sleek new grey counters, which go great with the home but look odd on the older cabinetry have been added, and stainless steel appliances (sans fridge) have been added. The dining room sits adjacent and open to the kitchen, and is elevated about four inches above the rest of the home for some reason.

Master bedroom 

Master bedroom 

Master bath

Secondary bedroom 

Secondary bedroom 

Guest bath

The master bedroom sits off the front entry, features vaulted ceilings and a small, updated bath with white on white fixtures and surrounds. The remaining two bedrooms sit split form the master on the east side of the home, and they, like the master, are simple diminutive-sized rooms. The guest bath has had the same update as the master bath, and like the rest of the home, could use a little color or an infusion of midcentury mod inspiration.

Backyard

Back of home 

Backyard 

Backyard & back of home

The backyard contains a large concrete slab at the center of the yard. A patchy lawn and a few older plantings surround the yard area, and like the front yard, the backyard is a prime candidate for a clean and modern water-conserving makeover.

For those looking for a little project who don’t putting the modern back into this midcentury abode, look no further than this north Long Beach Palmer & Krisel home.

Check out the full listing on Redfin.com here: 3220 East Janice Street

Or Zillow.com here: 3220 East Janice Street

1955 Long Beach Palmer & Krisel Home For Sale – Long Beach, CA

  

New to the market is this 1955 Palmer & Krisel-designed home in Long Beach, CA. With four bedrooms and two bathrooms in 1,600 square feet and a detached two-car garage, the asking price on this home is $499,000.

Front of home

The home sits on a west-facing corner lot, with the detached two car garage sited in the backyard and accessed from the north side of the property. Interestingly a white-picket fence was chosen to surround this midcentury modern piece of architecture, which could easily be removed if a future owner wanted to open up the yard and show of the architecture of the home a bit. A pair of large shade trees sit along the western property line of the lot, allowing for passive solar and protection form the western-facing sun.

Garage on north side of home

The exterior of the home contains its great midcentury lines, despite several original windows recently being replaced with chunky white vinyl windows, but luckily Krisel’s signature clerestory windows are still intact at the ends of the home. There’s an addition on the rear of the home adding in the fourth bedroom, as this home was originally a three bedroom in about 1,200 square feet.

Floor plan

Dining Room at front of home

Entry hall

Addition at rear of home

Unfortunately the interior photographs of this home are pretty terrible, which is surprising as one would think that good photographs are a significant part of selling a home. Regardless, the floorplan is pretty recognizable, with the master bedroom to the south of the front door, the secondary bedrooms on the north side of the home, the dining nook at the front of the home, and the living and kitchen at the rear of the home along with the 400 square-foot addition.  

Kitchen 

Kitchen

Kitchen

Judging by the odd, close-up photographs submitted, the home appears to have a very traditionally updated kitchen, with white shaker cabinetry, ornate molding, stone counters and stainless steel appliances. 

Bathroom 

Master bedroom 

Secondary bedroom 

Secondary bedroom 

The bathrooms appear to have been updated with materials that are indicative of a big-box store quick fix, right down to the cost-cutting beige floor tiles utilized in the tub surround. The bedrooms are colorful, and appear to be carpeted in contrast to the laminate flooring found throughout the rest of the home.

Backyard patio at addition 

Turf area

Another shot of the backyard turf - and back of garage

The backyard is mainly swallowed up by the addition and rear-yard garage, and contains a small covered patio, a fairly good-sized concrete patio, and a modest sized patch of turf. There are no trees in the backyard, and only a few vertical plantings adjacent to the rear of the garage.

Homes at this price point in north Long Beach don’t seem to last that long, and despite the non-cohesive updates, this home will most likely be gone quickly.

Check out the full listing on Redfin.com here: 6260 Obispo Avenue

Or Zillow.com here: 6260 Obispo Avenue