An Interior Designer Launches Her Career by Renovating Her Family’s Midcentury Eichler

Pamela Lin opens up the interior of her Sunnyvale home by connecting it to the surrounding picturesque views.

"We weren't looking for a home like this," says Pamela Lin—wife, mother and principal designer at Urbanism Designs, an interior design studio in the heart of Silicon Valley that was born from this very project. As the story goes, Lin and her husband were looking for new or recently renovated homes for their growing family, when they happened upon a midcentury Eichler. "I had a vision for how I wanted to renovate this home. We hired our own contractor so that we could do everything ourselves." 

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Gabrielle Golenda
I am from the Mile-High City, Denver, Colorado (where my first-ever published work was the winning poem in the Denver Post’s rodeo-themed haiku contest).

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