AVENUE PORTOLA RESIDENCE

El Granada, California

General Contractor
Bob Collihan

Photography
Sen Creative

A home in El Granada that needed one thing above all else: light. A heavy flesh-toned paint was replaced with a warm white throughout, and the difference was immediate — the space opened up, breathed, and finally felt like itself.

What followed was a careful layering of texture and warmth — custom fabrics, tailored window treatments, a fuzzy rug underfoot. The kitchen was transformed with new cabinet fronts, zellige tile, Belgian stone flooring, leather-finish countertops, and considered hardware. Old pieces sit comfortable alongside new ones.

The result is bright, unhurried, and quietly refined — exactly what a home by the coast should feel like.