Well it's interesting and oddly I don't hate it!

It reminds me of that furniture sold at RH years ago. The deconstructed look. Furniture that is finished but not. This is a deconstructed house. Finished studs on half finished walls. I think it needs some work if they want to pull off this look. Right now it looks more like they ran out of money then a look they were trying to achieve.

You can see the potential with the 1/2 open walls.

Well, I can’t scroll through images with that kind of filter, or with photos that are about elements, not the house in general. I’m sure I would like to walk through the house, but the pictures do not give me anything to relate to.

I kind of think that's clever. You get the flow of air and light without having to permanently remove walls and add structural beams.

I like it. But I know someone who lived in a house that was stripped to the studs or lath and studs between rooms for a number of years.

Although the size might be bigger than some would think as a summer cabin, it’s to me a summer cabin. I like parts but other parts look like living through construction.

I'm with liikefriday.

I live in Oakland, too, and…WTH. I’m slack jawed with amazement. Maybe I’ll try to go to the next Open House of this bizarro real estate offering.

Initially, I thought - wow, nice open airy space with great windows and lots of light. But there were so many pictures basically noting the "studs -no wall" look that it started to lose it's charm.

And then yes, it started to remind me of RH and became pointedly a deconstructed house. If there weren't so many pictures I may not have picked up on that.

I think it's brilliant! At first I thought the main room was glassed in and I really liked it. Then I noticed it wasn't but didn't look mid construction, but deliberate. How wonderful that they didn't ruin the integrity of the original build but creatively opened it up for today's lifestyle. I think I love everything about it! The colors, the furnishings. The door into the shower has me stumped, but I suppose there is an explanation (which I would love to hear). I'm surprised at the price, which seems really low for Oakland. I haven't been there for years, but visited friends who moved there about 40 years ago. They had a wonderful home in what looked like a nice neighborhood...but then I noticed the razor wire all across the top of the fence in the back yard! And our car was broken into the first night on the street. I guess we were a little naive (or a lot) since we were on a road trip - out of state license plates, clothes hanging in the back seat. They only took loose change and my husband's watch that he'd removed while driving and didn't grab when we went into the house. Not sure what it's like there now.

This is a DIY gone crazy. I do think the no wall board is working and I think it looks very intentional. Not many studs are that dark. They've been stained. The walls that are opened up are the walls one takes down when "opening up a home". Saved a lot of money on beams to hold the house up! The kitchen is a huge issue. It seem to be a couple of different rooms to get all the elements that call something a "kitchen". This is the sort of DIY home mess that sells in this market for asking--and would end up a give away in any other.

I enjoyed this. I think they went just a smidge too far with it though. I liked it in the living and dining room. I think I'd experiment with a different stain for the exposed wood but it could be really spectacular in those rooms. The rest of it was less impressive to me for some reason.

I can't quit looking at this home; I love it so much! I was thinking the exposed lumber walls were the original construction with the covering removed. Or do you think the original walls were taken down and these skeleton walls added? I love how they painted the tops of the posts to make it seem intentional and finished, not mid-construction. Because of the color of the exposed boards, I thought they looked like original timber or else reclaimed wood.
The ethereal ombre blue bedroom...swoon.
Love the pegboard waterfall counter and backing. I thought the kitchen floor might be marmoleum because of the color, but now I see it is painted wood boards. I still cannot figure out the door from the main bedroom that opens into the shower; it looks like it's unusable, but then you would have to come down the stairs and be exposed to the kitchen to get to and from the master bath??? Am I missing something? I guess it would be fine if you lived alone. I also think the photographer did an amazing job. Beautifully composed photos.

I like it and would like to hear the architect-owner's thoughts.

A few in Kitchens would go ballistic over that work triangle.

I'm with Olychick. I love the way they did it. We took our house down to the studs and I never would have believed you could make it look good. However, they've been so thoughtful about it, that, for me, it works. They haven't just left off the wallboard, they've turned the open walls into art and used furnishings/decor to complement that look.

Where it falls flat for me is in the yard and landscaping. To me, that looks like it had potential, but they gave up,

I like it. The boards make sense especially between the kitchen and LR. I love that fridge!

I love it, Of course, I'm the one who opened up my old house with steel beams.

I actually like it! It was a tiny house, now it looks bigger, if only an optical illusion. It has a two car garage....which is hard to find with a tiny house. Fun to look at! 🐾🐾

@sushipup2...WOW! I really like your old house! Great open spaces!

I like parts of it, but the thing that struck me after looking again at the floor plan is the lack of storage. Where are the closets? It seems as if they deliberately removed any but the smallest, but left wide open areas, such as the primary bedroom sitting area, where a larger closet could have been built. It’s a little too busy for my eyes. I keep looking at the white painted area on the support posts between the living room and kitchen and wondering why.

The blue bedroom is absolutely stunning. I like so much about this house, but I think they went too far with bringing it all to the studs. Less would have been more.

Interesting mix of responses, but maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I think I cycled (am still cycling) between

• It looks like they cheaped out/ ran out of money
• It works pretty well in an artsy/boho way
• Creative solution with a limited budget!

I posted before I made it through all the photos. I love the outdoor space! And I really like the fireplace.

I wouldn't bet that the studs have been stained. Lots of homes in the region of that era were built with redwood. Here's a photo of wall studs from my kitchen remodel (Oakland 1910 house). Mine have marks from the lath and plaster, the color looks about on par with the listing.

Skipped down to say I like it - very nice vibe.

Assuming those open frames might be load bearing?

Cawaps - I actually assumed that they are not stained and that the exposed wood is natural. I'm thinking if they were stained it would look even more deliberate. Of course I'm occasionally an idiot too, so take that for what it's worth...

This is the area I really didn't like. I don't understand what's going on here, with the various colors (?) (is it paint, tape, what?) on the exposed wood.

Also, if I lived there chances are high I'd try to walk through the studs in the middle of the night and end up looking like a fly trapped on one of those sticky fly strips. LOL.

I like sushipups steel beam rendition because it looks more polished and intentional. I like that a lot.

Sushipup's house reno is absolutely beautiful work. I believe some before and after photos were shared here back when it was originally done, and I remember being incredibly impressed.

The open walls also had me thinking about practical things like electrical outlets. I noticed they boxed in the bottom of the open wall between the living and dining rooms, and I see an outlet there. Between the dining and kitchen there's an outlet box mounted at the bottom facing up. Homes of this vintage generally have a dearth of outlets unless they've been remodeled, so the current crop of outlets may equal what they had before.

To me this looks like some DIY'ers got in over their heads. They took the sheetrock down, realized there were load bearing walls beyond their capability of handling, and they just threw up an antler and painted some color blocking on some of the studs and caled it good. At least it looks consistent and intentional enough that they could still list the house. I very much agree with @ilikefriday comparison with the RH unconstructed furniture.

Now, sushipup's reno is the other side of the spectrum. It looks planned, intentional, and beautifully implemented. It does not look unfinished or accidental, but like a work of structural art.

I recently took the plaster off several walls and the ceiling (and then removed the walls themselves) and the studs, some of which we saved, are much darker than the newer stock, (and also heavier per unit and slightly thicker). And the house is only 1965-6, no older than that.

But I am closing things back up, no exposed studwork for me, not in this house.

Does anybody know what the overscaled terrazzo-looking stuff is in the bathroom? It looks like Marmoreal Terrazzo but I wonder where it comes from.

I don't know what the terrazzo is, but when I looked at the bathroom photo I noticed this oddity. What the what?

cawaps, on the floor plan it shows as a door to the bathroom! That is what I was questioning in my posts. The only other entrance to the bathroom is down the stairs by the kitchen, which are open to the kitchen. So no sneaking down naked unseen or up after a shower, unless you climb up to the suspended door!

I went from thinking "that's interesting" to "I kind of like this" to " well that isn't that odd" to "oh that doesn't look good" to entering the 3D tour and arriving at "I hate this". It really looks better in the 2D photos. In the 3D tour you see lots of rough, unfinished details, shortcuts that look haphazard, and things that are simply not successful (the entire kitchen has a finish quality that looks more squatter than artistic). I still do like the long run of skylights over the dining room. That's truly interesting.

And sorry, the antlers and heavy speakers perched on the joists are just earthquake hazards.

Oly, somehow I missed your second paragraph in the above post.

I live in a one bath house, so the lack of a master bath didn't even register. The one-misstep-and-it's-a-trip-to-the-hospital "master access" to the bathroom is a mystery that definitely did--once I noticed it. No one should use that door, especially after a shower when the step is wet.

It’s pending sale; it will be interesting to see the price it fetched. It’s a neighborhood not too far from mine, and a few houses around me have gone for a million over asking. It’s so interesting to me how many people on the thread have favorable responses- I would not have expected that.
For me it’s inventive and original (reminds me a little of a Paris Airbnb with the exposed beams) but not livable. I keep imagining the splinters I would get.

Now I want to know where you live chinacatpeekin, if you are willing to share. I'm between Park and E 14th, on the same side of 580 as this one.

I think the reason the price is so low has a lot to do with the neighborhood - and there is a middle school a block and a half away - a big no-no for me.

I’m in Glenview, on the north side of Park Blvd, between 580 and 13. Very close to you! I love Oakland. We should meet up:)