1300 Plaza Pacifica, Santa Barbara, CA 93108

A Quiet Kind of Rare : Bonnymede's Largest Floorplan At Bonnymede, where units tend to share walls and floor plans, 1300 Plaza Pacifica breaks the pattern -- a configuration so rare within the community that only a handful were ever built this way. It is, without exaggeration, the largest layout the community has to offer -- three bedrooms, three baths, single-level living throughout, and a rare kind of quiet that comes from having no one pressing in from either side. Enter via a private landing, and the rooms open outward in unhurried proportion. Light moves across wide-plank white oak underfoot, gathering beneath generously scaled ceilings -- a layout as gracious as it is chic. The remodel, carried out with evident restraint, resists the urge to overdo -- even air conditioning, uncommon in the community, has been added with quiet restraint. Two patios frame the day differently: one south-facing and generous, catching a glimpse of the Pacific; the other set apart for slow,...