🏡 Is your home REALLY an Eichler? Or just Eichler style inspired ? Not every post-and-beam home is an Eichler. And honestly, this is where a lot of people get tripped up. True Eichler homes were built with very specific design and construction features: ✔ Concrete slab foundation (no crawlspace) ✔ No attic ✔ Simple brick or block fireplaces ✔ Exposed tongue-and-groove beam ceilings ✔ Usually built in architecturally consistent tract neighborhoods Between 1945 and the late 1960s, many builders c

Balboa Highlands in Granada Hills is the only Eichler Homes tract in Los Angeles County. Joseph Eichler was a developer who completely changed mid-century housing in California. He believed regular families deserved the kind of modern design usually reserved for custom homes. Open floor plans, post-and-beam structure, indoor-outdoor flow, and huge glass walls. To bring that vision to life, he hired architects like A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Emmons, and Claude Oakland, who designed the homes unde