A reimagined circa-1924 home in the Burbank Gardens neighborhood of Santa Rosa is currently listed for $685,000. 

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom dwelling exudes charm right at the curb. The walkway flanked by grass leads to a spacious front porch. Modern fixtures and fresh paint highlight the traditional millwork.

A down-to-the-studs renovation has given a pleasing transitional style to the antique home. Oak floors provide a clean and warm look, white walls offer airiness, and black iron fixtures button up the look with a bit of contrast.

The home’s 1,071 square feet are expanded by an open-concept great room with a kitchen, eat-in counter and lounging area. Repeating double-hung windows allow for lots of light.

Geometric tiles in black and white give an energized focal point to the shower in the main bathroom. A stained wood cabinet and white walls keeps the look tranquil.

The graveled patio area of the backyard is enclosed with a new fence. A sailcloth provides daytime shade and in-ground uplights add cozy, nighttime ambiance.

For more information on this listing at 648 Pine St. in Santa Rosa, contact listing agent Brooklyn Nordby, 707-321-3106, Sotheby’s International Realty, brooklynnordby.com/sale/listing-details/c0038278-e0f1-45ad-8c87-6ae4766775f8

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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 ridgetop Santa Rosa home with mountain views and a succulent garden, once featured in Sonoma Magazine, is currently listed for sale. The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom home set on nearly an acre is currently listed for $1,950,000.

Sonoma Magazine highlighted the home in 2021 for its garden of stunning succulents, which the owners planted after the Tubbs Fire charred the landscape of mature oaks and grasses. The homeowners chose succulents for the desert look as well as for their low-water and fire-resistant qualities. The water-retaining plants sit in beds of decomposed granite, rather than the previous woodchip mulch.

The angular home with contrasting rounded elements was designed to “capture sunrise over the eastern mountains,” according to the listing. Remodeled in 2019, the home includes limestone floors, custom windows, radiant heat, mini-splits, passive solar and natural cooling. 

Residents can savor views through repeating windows and retractable NanaWall glass doors. A saltwater spa and several outdoor lounging areas are nestled in plants. 

A 220-square-foot flex space, added in 2021, can be used as a workout studio or office. 

For more information on this property at 3929 Rincon Ridge in Santa Rosa, contact listing agents Gina Clyde, 707-529-8504, or Lynn Ochoa, 707-933-7629, Sotheby’s International Realty, 3929RinconRidge.com

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Perri Haughwout’s decision to build a labyrinth in her front yard wasn’t rushed. She had been thinking about it for years, much like one walks a labyrinth: deliberately but slowly, in quiet consideration, allowing things to unfold.

Haughwout would look out on her front lawn with distaste, imagining something more thoughtful in its place. In time, she let the weed-stricken lawn die entirely. Then two long years passed. By chance, in October 2023 she struck up a conversation with a local acquaintance named Tim Farley, who had been designing and planting gardens for a quarter of a century — but had never built a labyrinth. Both were now excited about the project, though still not hurried.

It took another year to design and build and plant. Finally, there it was: A meandering path that embodies its own circuitous road to existence. To Haughwout, a winemaker and beekeeper, and her husband Carmen Castaldi, who recently retired as president of Healdsburg’s Rodney Strong Vineyards, the garden’s long road to realization reinforces its call to contemplation, meditation and patience.

A labyrinth represents a way of looking both inward and outward, explains Haughwout, a way of bringing everything together, especially the natural world. One local example that spoke to the couple and helped set the project in motion is a grassy spiral on the Sonoma Coast along the Kortum Trail, near Shell Beach. It’s believed to have been there for over 20 years.

“People are just planting all their intentions there, and memories of people, and personal statements,” Castaldi says. “Little rocks, too. It’s very cool.”

Haughwout was immediately drawn to labyrinths as a personal tool. “I’m not one to sit still, so a way for me to center myself and focus has been walking meditation,” she says. “The walking, the purposeful walking, was what really attracted me to have this at my own house. I mentioned to my neighbors, ‘If you see me walking around in circles, you’ll know I’m just meditating, and not that crazy old lady next door, right?’”

The couple’s new labyrinth is not, in fact, a true circle. Instead, it meanders left and right, winding its way around an existing concrete path that leads to the front door. And this serpentine footprint is artfully echoed in the design of the low, mounded “walls” that define it. Farley chose to construct them of flat, slate-like slabs of locally quarried Sonoma fieldstone. The stones are placed vertically into the earth and aligned perpendicular to the flow of the lava-rock path, so each stone points to the center of the labyrinth.

The effect is something lifelike and familiar, yet mythical. In the spaces between the stones, Farley has planted a crevice garden that Haughwout and Castaldi figure will be a perennial work-in-progress, where succulents and groundcovers and other small plants can put down roots and send up flowers and spread over the rock, softening the already gentle walls while bearing the promise of constant change.

“It’s really going to grow,” Castaldi says. “What I like is that I continue to walk around it, and every time, there’s something else there. We just started placing different nuggets that we’ve collected over the years, like a shell from the beach” — or a rock from Sedona, Haughwout adds.

Another metaphorical layer is Farley’s own labor. He estimates he spent 160 hours last winter, five or six hours at a time, often on hands and knees, selecting and hammering each stone into place.

“In the garden, a lot of times we have tasks that are repetitive,” Farley says. “It’s all about the planning. Get the stone here, get the dirt here. Once I have all that in place, and I actually go into execution, it’s very repetitive. It doesn’t take 100% of your mind state — it absolutely has some of those meditative qualities.”

The labyrinth is adjacent to a Pinot Noir vineyard that supports Haughwout’s small label, Perri Jaye Vineyards, which produces about 150 cases of Pinot Noir and rosé each year. Once or twice a year, she invites a few dozen members of her wine club to her vineyard for an intimate gathering, with home cooking from Castaldi — and now a chance to walk the labyrinth and perhaps tuck their own small mementos into the stones.

Even as she asks guests and loved ones to bring their own remembrances, Haughwout feels a strong connection to the labyrinth.

“Walking is my way to meditate, and the labyrinth is pretty magical,” she says. “I feel like as soon as you walk in there, you just kind of go, ‘I’m here for a reason.’ And the reason is, you know, being here, being present and walking with intention.”

Resources

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The New York Times recently featured a Santa Rosa property in a spotlight of $1.1 million homes in California. Perched in the hills of Montecito Heights, the four-bedroom, two-bathroom home is on the market for $1,098,000.

Built in 1972, the 2,124-square-foot home has been renovated in a mid-century modern style. An open layout, vaulted ceilings, and some whited-out wood paneling and stone cladding give the home an airiness. 

A series of windows and the balcony along the front of the home offer views of oak trees and mountains. In the back, a porch runs the length of the home and has built-in benches for sitting. 

Italian marble countertops, stainless steel appliances and cabinets refinished in a robin’s-egg blue give the kitchen sparkle. The bathrooms are refreshed by refinished cabinets and vertical tile work in hues borrowed from the natural setting.

Along with the Santa Rosa property, The New York Times article featured two other Northern California homes, in Oakland and Stockton.

For more information on this property at 3935 Alta Vista Ave., contact listing agents Tim Rangel, 707-280-1700, or Claud Bates, 707-365-6830; Sotheby’s International Realty – Wine Country – Sonoma Brokerage, 793 Broadway, Sonoma, sothebysrealty.com

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