Edgewater

Edgewater is a full luxury remodel of a mid-century modern home in Huntington Beach, CA — and one of FGRED's most architecturally significant projects to date. The home is built around a rare and coveted feature: a private interior courtyard that the structure wraps around on multiple sides, creating an outdoor room that is simultaneously sheltered and open to the sky. Rather than work against that original architecture, every design decision in this remodel was made to honor and amplify it. The result is a home that feels both timeless and completely fresh.

The architecture announces itself from the street. A long, low flat roofline with wide overhangs, wood-tone garage panels, and dark charcoal stone cladding on the facade give the exterior a quiet, composed presence that reads immediately as mid-century. Step through the courtyard and into the home through the walnut French doors and the interior delivers on that promise in full.

Warm, rich walnut millwork is the recurring material thread throughout the entire home. Custom walnut door frames and solid panel doors appear in every room — at the bedroom entries, the closet, the bathroom, the kitchen — and give the home a level of finish craft that most remodels never approach. It's the kind of detail that registers subconsciously before you can name it: the home feels expensive because the wood is everywhere and it's done right.

The living spaces are anchored by a vaulted cathedral ceiling with exposed black-painted structural beams — the home's original A-frame roofline made interior and re-expressed as a design feature. A continuous band of clerestory glazing runs along the upper walls, flooding the space with natural light from above while maintaining privacy at eye level. Large-format cream porcelain tile runs throughout the main living areas, dining zone, and kitchen — a neutral, elegant field that lets the architecture and material details lead. A fireplace with a teal tile surround adds a period-appropriate color accent that nods to the home's mid-century DNA without feeling costume.

The kitchen is the project's design centerpiece. Full-height flat-panel walnut cabinetry lines both sides of the galley from floor to ceiling — no hardware, no interruption, just a continuous wall of warm grain on either side. Calacatta marble-look quartz runs the full perimeter countertop and wraps the island in dramatic veined white stone. A stainless steel island hood drops from the beamed ceiling above the gas cooktop, and a KitchenAid double wall oven anchors the cooking wall. The clerestory windows that define the living room continue into the kitchen, bathing the workspace in overhead light that makes the white stone practically glow. It's a kitchen that reads as a professional space and a beautiful one simultaneously.

The primary bathroom is finished in full-height vertical light blue-grey tile — wall to wall, floor to ceiling — with a double floating walnut vanity, dual vessel sinks, white quartz countertop, and a pair of rounded wood-framed mirrors flanked by globe sconces. A soaking tub set into a tiled surround sits adjacent to a frameless glass-enclosed shower with matte black fixtures throughout. The L-shaped vanity configuration adds a dedicated makeup zone — a detail that elevates the room from bathroom to suite.

The primary bedroom opens directly to the garden through a full-width sliding glass door, with wide-plank light oak hardwood flooring and a custom built-in closet system with white cabinetry, full drawer banks, and dedicated hanging and shelving zones accessed through a warm walnut door.

Delivered with all City of Huntington Beach permits handled in-house. This project demonstrates what's possible when a mid-century home is remodeled with genuine respect for its architecture — not updated away from what it was, but elevated into what it was always capable of becoming.