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Amazing home transformations

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Updating a classic midcentury home

A hillside midcentury modern house gets renovated for today with earth-friendly ideas that improve (discreetly) on the past

An open kitchen with modern barstools.
Photography by Thomas J. Story , article by Nan Sterman

Kitchen in plain sight

Featured in Sunset's May 1966 issue, this award-winning La Mesa hillside home near San Diego was considered a model of indoor-outdoor living.

The renovated kitchen retains the original footprint minus the overhead cabinets that isolated it from the dining area.

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