What we've learned about San Lorenzo
This is an unusual place to clean, and the reason is history. The Village was laid out and built as a single wartime housing scheme in the mid-1940s: thousands of small homes on gently curving streets, put up fast for shipyard and defense workers, and most of them still stand in something close to their original form. Walk two blocks off Grant Avenue and the same roofline comes around four times.
That consistency is genuinely useful. We know before arriving that the bathroom is small and tiled, that there is a window over the kitchen sink and a back door onto the service yard, and that there is one floor and no stairs. What differs is what has been added since — a rear extension, a second bathroom, a garage turned into a bedroom. Those are the questions we ask, and the rest we can safely assume.
What we walk into in San Lorenzo
Nine hundred to twelve hundred square feet, one level, wood frame, two or three bedrooms, often a single bathroom with original wall tile and a cast-iron tub. Strip hardwood survives under the carpet in a great many of them. Kitchens are compact, with a short counter run and a lot of painted cabinet face. Houses extended toward the rear gain a family room and usually a second bathroom, and that is the main variable in any quote here.