Inside Inglewood homes
The oldest parts of the city are worth handling carefully. North Inglewood and the streets around Morningside Park went up mostly between 1922 and 1948, and a surprising number still have their original hexagonal bathroom tile, cove-plaster ceilings, arched doorways and oak floors that were never sealed. Those finishes are the reason we use pH-neutral product and soft pads on the older houses and keep steam well away from the grout.
Centinela runs uphill, so parts of the west side have short flights of front steps and split-level entries that the flat southern blocks do not. Meanwhile the ground around SoFi Stadium and the Kia Forum has changed what a booking looks like: new mid-rise apartments with lobbies, fobs and timed loading zones, plus event days when the surrounding blocks are hard to drive. We schedule around that calendar rather than pretending it is not there.
Inglewood homes, structurally
The prewar house here is 1,100 to 1,700 square feet, one story, stucco, with a detached garage off a side driveway and hardwood under whatever carpet came later. Ceilings are lower than the era suggests and the bathrooms are small and tiled floor to shoulder. Hillside blocks in Centinela add entry steps and occasional split levels. Against that, the newest stock is apartment interiors with sealed hard flooring, quartz counters and a single stacked laundry, which clean fast.