3150 Sea Cliff

The great room opens to the ocean through pocket doors, and a wall of glass on the opposite side brings the mountains into view. It is a single-story house on 2.4 acres of coastal land in Campanil, in Santa Barbara, reached by a private lane.

A boardwalk runs through pines to the front door, and through the glass you can see straight out to the water. Behind the house the grounds step down through a native California meadow, raised stone beds, fruit trees and an edible garden, with a pool, a guest house and two fire pits turned toward the sea.

The floor of the living room is sunk below the rest of the room, so the sofas sit at the height of the lawn outside. In the evening the lights come on along the path and the house reads from the meadow as a long lit band of glass.