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Home renovation · Mission area, Santa BarbaraMission.

The owners wanted calm and light, and room to host. The house's best feature, its vaulted ceilings and trusses, stayed.

A living room with a vaulted, white-painted board ceiling and exposed trusses, wide-plank wood floors, a long picture window to the garden, a stacked stone fireplace, and sliding glass doors — **The living room: white-painted trusses, board ceiling, stone fireplace**

The brief

A full remodel near the Old Mission: nine months of construction, finished in 2026. The owners wanted it calm and light, with room to host.

The vaulted, white-painted board ceilings and exposed trusses were the best thing in the house, and they stayed. Around them, everything changed, down to black-framed sliding doors to the garden.

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A dining room with a trestle table and woven chairs under a vaulted white board ceiling with beams and track lighting, wide-plank wood floors, and a wide opening to a family room beyond

The dining room under the same vaulted ceiling, open to the family room

A white paneled built-in cabinet set into a wall between two openings, with the dark front door and entry hall on the left and the living room with its stone fireplace and sliding doors on the right

From the entry, a built-in cabinet between hall and living room

An entry hall with a dark wood front door, a pendant light under a vaulted ceiling, white walls and wide-plank wood floors running through to the kitchen

The entry hall, looking through to the kitchen

A walk-in pantry with white open shelving above a patterned tile backsplash, a butcher-block counter, sage-green open base cabinets and a stainless wine refrigerator

The pantry: butcher-block counter, sage-green open cabinets, a wine refrigerator

A bathroom vanity with a polished green veined stone top and undermount sink, cream Shaker drawers and doors with brass pulls, beside a toilet, on a white and gray marble hexagon mosaic floor

Green stone vanity top, cream cabinets, brass pulls, marble hexagon floor

A bedroom with a vaulted ceiling, wide-plank wood floors, and a black-framed sliding glass door above a wood step, looking out to a garden and a stone wall

A bedroom under a vaulted ceiling, a black-framed slider to the garden

A walk-in closet seen through a pair of white doors, with white built-in shelf towers, double hanging rods on both sides and a woven pendant light

The walk-in closet: built-in shelving, double hanging rods

A straight stair with wood treads matching the floors, white risers and a white wall-mounted handrail

The stair: wood treads to match the floors, white risers, a wall rail

The constraint

The hardest part: keeping the character of the house, the ceilings and trusses above all, while everything around them changed.

Specification

What it is made of

Element	Specified
Ceilings	The original vaulted board ceilings and trusses, kept
Vanity	Green quartzite
Floors	Wide-plank wood
Pantry	Butcher-block counter; sage-green cabinets

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Where it is

Mission area, Santa Barbara

A short drive from downtown Santa Barbara. The pin marks the neighborhood, never the house.

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How a project like this is run

Whole-house renovations Project management in Santa Barbara Finish carpentry in Santa Barbara General contractor in Santa Barbara Owner’s rep in Santa Barbara

Built by Matt Newman. Licensed since 2001. Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, twenty years on this coast, and on every AMN site himself. One name on the contract. His story

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