Foster City Affordable Eichler Remodel, USA, CA, Californian Housing Development
Foster City Affordable Eichler Remodel, California
Aug 1, 2020
Eichler Remodel
Design: Klopf Architecture
Location: Foster City, San Mateo County, California, USA

Joseph Eichler developed his moderately priced houses for the mass-market starting in 1949. His homes were designed using affordable materials and simple construction techniques. Nearly 70 years later these homes are in need of updating and remodeling an Eichler home today can become an imposing and costly project if you?re not careful. For the Eichler Remodel the clients, who had undergone several previous house renovations, were determined to stick with an established budget from the beginning. Klopf Architecture helped them modernize their Eichler with a premium appearance on a reasonable budget.
The clients challenged the Klopf team to create a design that had a high-end feel and nicely done while adhering to their budget. That meant not all of the initial project scope could be built. Like many other Eichler homes, the original floor plan did not meet the family?s needs leaving them feeling disconnected from one room to another. While an early goal was to expand the house into a carport and create a larger garage, it did not survive the contractor pricing phase of the project.

The goals that did survive through to the end of the project included blurring some of the boundaries and opening up some of the spaces, making them m...