Worldly Influence: Custom Homebuilding with Cultural Flair

Santa Barbara Aesthetic with an Outside Style

Thu Sep 07, 2023 | 12:19am

A lot of people who live in Santa Barbara have been fortunate enough to explore cultures around the world. Some are inspired to such a degree that they return home deeply influenced by worldly food, art, dress, music, and architecture. 

It takes a special combination of hand and eye to pull off a custom home that brings in an outside style but at the same time fits the feel of that certain Santa Barbara aesthetic found between the mountains and the sea. Over the decades, Giffin & Crane has been fortunate enough to team up with homeowners and architects to make it happen. Here are a few of our favorites.

Credit: Jim Bartsch

BERMUDA IN MONTECITO:  Centered on the great room — an emerging layout preference in 1990s high-end residential construction — this all-new home unified sightlines and conversations between the open kitchen and fireside family room, with design details and color patterns reminiscent of a tropical estate. Heart pine flooring planks salvaged from a South Carolina plantation add warmth and history across 3,000 square feet, with three bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. Architecture by Ketzel & Goodman. 

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