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Six homes that spotlight modern style and design will be featured on this weekend’s Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour.
The tour will give guests a chance to peek behind the facades of six homes in Mountain View, Palo Alto and San Jose — see below for links to the other properties — and to meet the designers, architects and builders.
The tour runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 8. Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 on the day of the tour.
If you fail to notice the house on Skyline Boulevard, near Los Gatos’ Skyline to the Sea Trail, there’s a reason for that. The home, built mostly by its owner, was designed to follow the natural contours and terrain steps, dodging existing trees and trying with all its might to blend.
Its very attempts to conform to the landscape are, of course, what make it so interesting — a home people wouldn’t actually overlook.
The home is built mostly with a material called Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) instead of conventional stick framing. The SIPs make the home extremely energy efficient, with the added bonus of making it peacefully quiet inside.
House details
- Acadia Architecture
- Number of Bedrooms: 4
- Number of Bathrooms: 3½
- Approximate Square Footage: 3,500
- Year built: 2018
More houses on the Silicon Valley Modern Homes Tour
Peek inside an expansive, sustainable hilltop Portola Valley estate, a midcentury-modern Mountain View home that marries Ikea cabinets with high style, an airy, family-friendly San Jose home where indoor and outdoor spaces flow together, a Palo Alto home inspired by the sea and music, and a massive Los Altos Hills house whose design was forged on a 37-year friendship between owner and architect.
