Happy Valley Estate

Set on a private five-acre property in Pleasanton's Happy Valley — moments from Sycamore Road and the Callippe Preserve golf course — the Happy Valley Estate is a ground-up, 7,000-square-foot custom home Ridgecrest Designs took from first render to final walkthrough. As a true design-build project, our team led every phase: architecture, interiors, and the full construction.

The home is organic-modern with wine-country warmth — gabled volumes and vertical siding outside; custom reclaimed-wood trusses, ten-foot Portella steel doors and windows, layered stone, and warm white-oak within. A vaulted great room opens to a covered outdoor loggia with a plaster fireplace; the kitchen flows to a working pantry and a light-filled dining room. Every material was resolved in photorealistic detail before construction began, giving the family complete visual certainty from day one.

Designed and built by Ridgecrest Designs, lead designer Julienne Barrett. Featured in California Home + Design, "Pleasantly Perfect." Photography by Thomas Kuoh.