Location: Santa Cruz, California
Who lives here: Mary Ringel, a massage therapist, and husband Gerhard, an engineer-turned builder/ handyman
Size: 750 square feet (70 square meters); 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
That’s interesting: Two decommissioned side-by-side streetcars from the early 1900s make up this home.
This photo shows the living room as you enter through the front door. Here, with the curved roof, original iron brackets and transom-style windows, you can clearly tell that you’re standing in an old streetcar. But you’d never know from the street. That’s because a regular roof covers the two cars. Crawl into the attic space and you will be standing on the original streetcar roofs.
The two cars — one 25 feet long, the other 30 feet long — are parked next to each other, with a 3½ -foot space connecting them. The first streetcar includes the living and dining room. The second has the bathroom, bedroom (seen through the doorway on the right in this photo) and kitchen. An addition on the back extends the bedroom by 8 feet, bringing the total size of the home to 750 square feet, which was a serious downsizing for the Ringels, who moved there from a 2,500-square-foot, three-story home. “We had to get rid of a lot of stuff,” Mary says.
Their first order of business was adding a palette of all-new funky paint colors that refreshed the space but stayed true to the bohemian beach charm that drew them to the home in the first place. They hired local artist and painter Gregory LeBaron of Transformational Color to choose the colors and paint the interiors. The paint colors include Safari (a creamy yellow), Turmeric (an orangey yellow), Wasabi (pale green), Eggplant (dark purple), Dinner Party (red), Old Claret (pink) and a forest green, all from Benjamin Moore.
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