A newly built home in Rio Nido brings modern design and sought-after amenities to the Russian River redwoods. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home is listed for $1,650,000.

The dwelling’s 2,557 square feet of living space extends over three levels. The main level has a great room with a kitchen and dining, lounging and office areas. Plentiful windows and folding glass doors open to views and a substantial patio. 

The top level enjoys tree-top views in the main bedroom, an en suite bathroom, and flexible work and lounging areas. The bottom level includes an apartment with its own entrance. 

The open staircase with windows and skylights connects the levels and provides a well of light and views that emphasize the home’s height alongside the towering trees. 

For more information on this property at 14685 Willow Road in Guerneville, contact listing agent David R. Millar, 707-217-1786; Keller Williams Realty, 707-708-8157. zillow.com/homedetails/14685-Willow-Rd-Guerneville-CA-95446/15810098_zpid

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A renovated farmhouse on the Healdsburg-Geyserville border in Alexander Valley is currently listed for $3,650,000. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom dwelling has a saltwater pool and its own Cabernet vineyard, covering a checklist of Wine Country home must-haves.

East Coast transplants Cheryl and Steven Foland purchased the home in 2018 and moved in full time when their San Francisco and Marin-based jobs went remote during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We found ourselves so enamored with more space, a slower pace and an amazing sense of community,” said Cheryl.

The couple built a cedar farm fence for enclosure and curb appeal, as well as to corral their two Rhodesian ridgebacks, who, Cheryl said, “spend their day romping among vines.”

The Folands sell grapes from the property’s 15 rows of Cabernet vines to local wineries. A vineyard manager and a small crew run the harvest, but the couple joins in to help.

In the expansive outdoor space, the homeowners added landscaping and a saltwater pool — offering new ways to experience the vastness of vineyards and the surround of rolling hills.

The wraparound porch is lined by hydrangeas — planted to recall Cheryl’s time living in Westport, Connecticut, where the flower abounds. “Every year, the blooms multiply like mad,” she said of her Geyserville plants.

Self-described “major foodies,” the couple enjoys time cooking and entertaining in the kitchen, which has a Wolf Range and a glass-enclosed wine wall from which to pluck the day’s pairing. An outdoor barbecue area takes the eating adventure right next to the grapes.

The home also offers plenty of opportunities for the hardworking couple to wind down. The wraparound porch is a great place to watch the sun dip behind the vines. An open-concept living room, with a stone-faced electric fireplace, offers sunset gazing via wall-to-wall sliding glass doors. The main bathroom’s soaking tub has a window that creates another prized spot to savor the setting.

For more information on this property at 6476 Red Winery Road in Geyserville, contact listing agent Mary Curran, 707-364-6297. Compass Real Estate, 109 Mill St., Healdsburg, compass.com/homedetails/6476-Red-Winery-Rd-Geyserville-CA-95441/1Q6YIB_pid

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If your personal wheel of fortune has landed on “a grand Wine Country estate with soul-soothing views,” Ryan Seacrest may have the answer: his St. Helena property is on the market. The five-bedroom, seven-bathroom compound spans 40 acres and is listed for $19.8 million, down from its original $22 million.

Mansion Global first reported that the home, previously listed in 2024, has returned to the market with an adjusted price. The Tuscan-modern style home, built in 2004, underwent a remodel from 2023 to 2024.

Seacrest, host of “American Idol” and “Wheel of Fortune,” told Maison Global he purchased the home for the “absolutely stunning views” — vistas of mountains, vineyards and the verdant valley floor.

A main home, a pool house and a guest cottage make up the compound, which, in total, offers 10,750 square feet of living space. The home’s rustic grandness epitomizes the Napa Valley design ethos.

The main home has chiseled limestone walls, a repeat of substantial, reclaimed-wood beams, and seven fireplaces. A checkerboard floor gives the kitchen — complete with views and a pizza oven — a classic playfulness. Richly toned wood offers handsome warmth in the cabinetry, millwork and on the steeply vaulted ceiling of the living room. Pocketing doors deliver spectacularly in connecting the indoors to the lush setting.

The grounds include an infinity pool and spa, a bocce ball court and — to double-down on the tranquility — an olive grove with 220 trees.

For more information on this listing at 232 N. Fork Crystal Springs Road in St. Helena, contact listing agent Cyd Greer, 707-322-6825. Coldwell Banker Brokers of the Valley, 1200 Main St., St. Helena, cbnapavalley.com/properties/326018600

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An estate with storybook Mediterranean style situated near the iconic Silverado Trail in St. Helena is currently listed for sale. The 40-acre property — which includes a four-bedroom, four-bathroom main home, two guesthouses, a tennis court, two pools and a Cabernet vineyard — is currently listed for $18,500,000.

Built in 2003 and recently renovated, the 8,500-square-foot main home has a striking traditional style with a courtyard, loggias and mature plants climbing the stucco walls, all crowned with a steeply pitched, tile-clad hipped roof.

Interiors are elegant with Venetian plaster walls, walnut hardwood and French limestone floors, but are topped and trimmed with earthy and oversized raw wood beams. Fireplaces, arched doorways and floor-to-ceiling, black steel-frame windows add additional charm. The indoor-outdoor connection is present throughout the home, but the vibe doubles down in the solarium dining room.

The main home’s pool is perched above Lake Hennessey, almost appearing to merge with it from certain angles. A 60-foot lap pool sits by the guest homes. There is a bocce ball court and multiple alfresco dining spots sheltered by impossibly lush vine-wrapped trellises. 

For more information on this property at 40 Long Ranch Road in St. Helena, contact listing agent Ginger Martin, 415-516-3939, 707-200-2488; Sotheby’s International Realty – St. Helena Brokerage, 1229 Adams St., St. Helena, sothebysrealty.com/winecountry/eng/sales/detail/726-l-86828-lc7vc5/40-long-ranch-road-st-helena-ca-94574

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A home with striking modern style is currently listed for sale in Santa Rosa. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling on 1.21 acres is currently seeking $1,295,000. 

The 1,600-square-foot home is by Connect Homes — a Los Angeles-based design firm offering modern, prefabricated homes as a material, cost and time-saving option.

Built in 2020 with a steel-frame construction and fire-resistant materials, it has wide-plank wood floors, an open-concept plan with a central kitchen and repeating floor-to-ceiling windows. The chic, clean-lined design offers a seamless indoor-outdoor connection. It is solar powered.

The vast property includes a carport, a shed and a deck that allows for gathering outside. The yard is open yet private thanks to its generous size. 

For more information on this listing at 2789 Bardy Road in Santa Rosa, contact listing agent Sarah Carlson, 707-479-7516; Compass, 1702 Fourth St., Santa Rosa, 707-547-3800, zillow.com/homedetails/2789-Bardy-Rd-Santa-Rosa-CA-95404/15799928_zpid

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A 1950s-era ranch home that has undergone a truly artful transformation is currently listed for sale in Sonoma. The renovated 1,543-square-foot dwelling is enhanced with several outdoor spaces as well as premium and fine art finishes that create an intriguing modern aesthetic. With three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a pool, the home’s list price is $1,700,000.

Geometry is a central tactic of the design. Symmetrical and organic patterns in black, white and gray create a sense of movement and define the home’s spaces.

At the door is a sleek fence with thin slats in varying widths. The angular style is echoed in repeating rectangular door lites and concentric squares in the outdoor floor tile. 

The living room has a circular pattern play. Spheres are neatly stacked in the fireplace, which features a cement-and-plaster finish created by fine artist Tricia Rissmann. Her artwork hanging above the sofa and mantel features abstract circles. A rounded pattern circles back to the yard via floor tile under the pergola. The tile continues around the lap pool. 

The design transitions to edgier abstract angles on the patio around the outdoor bar. This space is accessible via a glass roll-up door that connects to the “wine den,” currently styled with a black accent wall for a moody vibe in which to sip, lounge or listen to music.

A linear pattern wows in the bathroom shower. The repeat of humble, hand-drawn lines on Italian tile are designed by artist Kasia Zareba.

Classic elements like French doors and a generous quartzite kitchen countertop blend with the modern elements to create a pleasing transitional feel in the vintage home. 

For more information about his home at 775 Boyes Blvd., Sonoma, contact listing agent Rachel Swann, 415-225-7743, 415-474-1750, Coldwell Banker Realty, 3927 24th St., San Francisco, coldwellbanker.com/ca/sonoma/775-boyes-blvd/lid-P00800000H64hoflOkPmTWpz5xGCWmNwwfSuEC2h

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Offering a farmhouse fantasy, a modern home with an accessory dwelling unit has hit the market in Healdsburg. The home, completed in 2023, epitomizes farmhouse style with an all-white, board-and-batten exterior, black accents and airy, open-concept interiors. With a total of six bedrooms and six bathrooms set among an expansive countryside, the estate is listed for $6,495,000.

The home and similarly styled ADU sit atop a hill in the Chalk Hill AVA, the high point of a 100-acre property full of mature trees, a pond with docks, and a private bridge extending over a seasonal creek. All rooms in the 5,132 square feet of living space have panoramic views of the Mayacamas, Mount St. Helena, vineyards and valleys.

The main home has a light-drenched great room with a kitchen that sparkles with quartzite countertops and premium appliances. The room’s dining and lounging areas enjoy forever-views through large sliders that lead to a deck and bocce ball court.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom ADU has a great room with a fireplace and more views. It’s located above a six-car garage and workshop. 

The fenced-off property also includes boat docks and an RV by the pond, plus an orchard and gardens.

For more information on this property at 9110 Chalk Hill Road, Healdsburg, contact listing agents Brooklyn Nordby, 707-321-3106, 707-939-2230, Sotheby’s International Realty; or Richard A. Frank, 707-322-8849, Sterling California Properties, brooklynnordby.com/sale/listing-details/b079102e-a034-4b6b-bc1e-87e850931c53

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When Jennifer Becker bought a run-down 5 ½-acre property in rural Sebastopol seven years ago, she envisioned creating a co-housing compound with room for friends and family to live cooperatively.

There was an existing cabin on the site, a tiny one-bedroom built in 1946. Her first inclination was to rebuild it as an accessory dwelling and build a larger new house elsewhere on the property, which offered numerous possibilities for additional structures.

But as she started collaborating with architect Lars Langberg, who had been recommended by several acquaintances, another idea emerged: Create a new home on the footprint of the old cabin that incorporated carefully thought-out design to make it feel more spacious without more square footage.

Over time, the collaborators became a couple, and now they are living out their happily-ever-after together in a compact yet comfortable home with living spaces that stretch to the outdoors. They’ve also created two separate studios from a ramshackle duplex a short walk from the main house for their three adult children to stay for both shorter and longer stints.

The modest home that Becker set out to build after losing a big five-bedroom house in the 2017 Tubbs Fire proved to be a literal labor of love for these empty nesters.

“There was a romance that developed as part of the project,” Becker says with a twinkle in her eyes. As their affections heated up, things came to a head.

Langberg recalls sitting at a table in the old house, offering his client different options, when she cut to the chase. “Well, are you ever going to live here?”

The project became a shared vision for a downsized life in a 1,200-square-foot, one-bedroom cottage that offers everything they need for the good life. By cleverly and efficiently reusing what already was there, they created something fresh and functional. Much of the valuable redwood from the old house and barn was reworked into the new construction.

“We did really extensive site planning exercises and landed here. We took the house completely down to the foundation and built back up,” Langberg says from a corner banquette in his dining area. It is a favorite all-purpose gathering spot and entertaining center for the couple, set beside a big window that looks out onto a densely layered landscape of native plants and agaves. Designed by Michael Erskine of Integrated Design Studio and installed by Creative Environments, the landscape, even in the cool season, is electric with many shades of green and the striking yellow spears of winter-blooming Mahonia.

Even though the existing structure was unsalvageable, Langberg soon realized there was a reason it was built where it was.

“When someone developed this property years and years ago, why did they choose to locate a house here? There was a good reason for it,” he says, pointing to the north and east through a clearing in the nearby trees. “It’s just so beautifully perched up here. You can view all the way to Geyser Peak and Hood Mountain. You get a little view of Mount St. Helena from the pool area. It just has an expansive feel.”

Working within the original footprint, he adds, also made economic sense by making use of the existing infrastructure and driveway. The old house had enclosed porches on two sides that they incorporated into the inside space, expanding the original tiny living area. Langberg raised the roof and created a series of interior transom windows to bring in light and give the space an open, airy feeling. The transoms are a number of subtle surprises built into the minimalist design, like the asymmetrical ceiling and uplighting on the blond wood cross beams over the living room that bathe the room in a soft glow.

“I love it so much I don’t think about it being compact. And we just have all these little zones any time we need privacy,” Becker says.

One of those zones is a nook set off from the main living area perfect for wintertime activities like watching TV or reading. Another corner has a tiny built-in office concealed within cabinetry.

Becker loves to curl up by the fireplace on cold days in a living room where books take pride of place. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves frame a doorway, creating a portal to a utility room and bathroom carved from one of the old porches.

When one or the other needs a little privacy or alone time, they can also make the short walk uphill to one of the studios equipped with kitchenettes and bathrooms. They are simple but uplifted with cool design touches like boldly patterned rugs and cement tiles.

Outdoor living is integrated into the design. Even in winter on a clear night they can gather around a firepit by the pool.

“My favorite thing is being in the garden and the orchard,” says Becker. “I love to have time every day at least doing something there, whether it’s pulling out a bed, or planting or picking flowers.”

Eighteen trees deliver a bounty of fruit — from figs and plums, to peaches, apricots, pears, and apples. In winter, there is an abundance of citrus; two vegetable garden beds produce cauliflower, winter squash, and kale — enough to keep Becker, a committed cook, supplied with fresh ingredients for a kitchen she kept purposely modest, including a simple four-burner analog stove. Along with a freezer full of pasture-raised meat purchased from friends, they rarely have to go out shopping.

Becker hasn’t completely given up her dream of a compound. It was inspired, in part, by her son after he took a course in permaculture — a holistic approach to land management and growing food — at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center. The center, which has classes, retreats, and programs promoting an eco-conscious and regenerative way of living, was founded 32 years ago as an intentional community by a group of friends who wanted to experiment with living and working cooperatively. In fact, Langberg designed a modern meeting hall and guest housing at the 80-acre site, which helped convince Becker he was the right architect for her vision.

Becker had a long career in marketing in the wine industry, heading up her own agency for 20 years. Now she’s shifted her passions to climate action and regenerative agriculture, something she practices on her property. She’s heavily involved with the One Block Challenge, an initiative aimed at encouraging grapegrowers to employ three regenerative growing practices into at least one block of vineyard. Supported by a cohort of other growers, it provides a no-cost, low-risk on-ramp into experimenting with a more eco-friendly form of viticulture, she explains.

While setting up an intentional community on her own property proved too fraught with complexity, Becker and Langberg foresee a time when one or more of their children might build a home on the site. And they take comfort knowing the studios could one day house a caregiver as they age.

Living smaller and more communally, says Becker, allows for sharing resources, work, and costs.

“It makes more sense. It probably is how we evolved as human beings. We weren’t living in these different subdivisions,” she says. “All the investments in the long term can be enjoyed by more people who share the burden of it as well as the responsibility.”

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A well-preserved 1970s-era home nestled among redwoods in Forestville is currently listed for sale. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling with floor-to-ceiling views is seeking $1,860,000.

The work of architect John U. Clowdsley Jr., the 2,994-square-foot home’s design is an interplay with the forested surroundings. The interior is clad in clear redwood paneling and accented with elements of slate and exposed aggregate. The ruddy interior contrasts with the vibrant perennial green of the outdoors.

The great room features a wood-burning fireplace with lounging and dining areas that merge with the kitchen and outdoor patio. The interior is also warmed with solar, radiant and forced-air heat.

It’s easy to envision cooking on the Wolf Range accompanied by a flood of daylight or the twinkle of starlight thanks to towering windows that run along the angle of the room’s single-pitch roof. There’s a Thermador fridge and original solid-wood cabinetry topped with marvelously modern tile.

In the bathroom, the new vertical tile of the Roman-style bathtub radiates alongside the original cabinetry. Multiple windows allow nature to steal the show.

All bedrooms enjoy the same redwood aesthetic inside and out via windows and patio access. 

The dwelling is part of a homeowners’ association of 12 homes in an 80-acre enclave along Forestville’s Green Valley Creek. The secluded community, featured decades ago in the Los Angeles Times, shares numerous amenities including a clubhouse, a pool and spa, a pickleball court and — in perfect Sonoma fashion — raised garden beds, a barn and chickens.

For more information on this home at 6764 Giovanetti Road in Forestville, contact listing agent Sandy Spring, 510-333-2559; Hedge Realty, 707-559-8990, 103 H St., Suite B, Petaluma, hedgerealty.com/properties/giovanetti

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A renovated, 1950s-era Sonoma home is currently listed for sale. Full of charm and sharp upgrades, the two-bedroom, one-bathroom home with an office is priced at $795,000.

The dwelling retains its vintage lines, but renewed elements — starting at the knotty-pine front door — make the space shine. The kitchen and bathroom feature quartz countertops as well as premium cabinets, which are painted a vibrant teal in the kitchen. Wide-planked white oak floors run throughout. 

The great room includes dining and lounging areas and centers around a wood-burning fireplace with a uniquely arched opening. The open layout and generous windows offer light and spaciousness that visually expand the home’s 1,500 square feet.

Modern light fixtures add a playful finish. Inspired choices of plants, artwork, textiles and furnishings beautifully alchemize the home’s transitional style.

The yard offers a covered patio for dining, raised garden beds and fruit trees.

For more information on this property at 601 Baines Ave. in Sonoma, contact listing agent Jennifer Rochlin, 707-363-6198; Compass, 135 W. Napa St., Suite 200, Sonoma, compass.com/homedetails/601-Baines-Ave-Sonoma-CA-95476/1P5XHB_pid

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