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Surfside Projects

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about Surfside Projects
A block away from Encinitas' Moonlight Beach, this home has a direct connection to the outdoors and maximizes the green space around the home.
A 90-degree multi-slide door connects the living room/dining room/kitchen to the cozy backyard.
Besides the multi-slide door, the home features energy-efficient and contemporary looking doors and windows from Western Window Systems.

Project • By Western Architectural OpeningsPrivate Houses

Mellow Out

An Encinitas rebuild that ups the ante on energy efficiency.   In drought-stricken Southern California, developer Steve Hoiles of Surfside Projects has made it an imperative to create water- and energy-efficient homes in his numerous rebuilds in the Encinitas area, between Los Angeles and San Diego. And he does it all in his imitable style, an approach he refers to as “pragmatic modernism.” Take, for instance, the Mellow Yellow House, a two-story, 2,600-square-foot rebuild he developed along with Jamie Miller of UF Architecture and Jeff Adams of Wave Crest General Construction. Just one block away from Encinitas’ Moonlight Beach, the Mellow Yellow House features a highly functional open interior, a... More

Project • By Western Architectural OpeningsPrivate Houses

Beach Lab

”A snappy rebuild brings a tired 1950s bungalow back to life.“   Steve Hoiles of Southern California developer Surfside Projects is all about breathing new life into rundown homes in the beach towns between Los Angeles and San Diego. In one Encinitas rebuild near the ocean, a “full gut-to-studs” project he calls the Beach Lab, Hoiles recycled a post-war bungalow and turned it into a cozy and cool 1,700-square-foot home. So cool, in fact, that it was No. 17 on Dwell.com’s list of the top 20 homes of 2017. Part of what makes the home so great is that Holies has seamlessly blurred the line between the indoors and the outside with huge moving walls of glass that frame picturesque views and al... More