The shape of Evergreen
Gradient is the thing nobody mentions until a crew is halfway up it. The streets above Aborn Road and out toward Yerba Buena Road climb steadily, and the houses climb with them: split entries, half-landings, and a stair that turns twice between the garage and the top bedroom. A vacuum gets carried a great deal in this district, which is why the work goes top down and finishes at the front door.
Age helps, though. Because so much went up after 1980, the plumbing fittings, shower enclosures and kitchen surfaces are newer than in the older half of the city, and a bathroom comes up quickly as a result. Around Evergreen Village Square and over toward Evergreen Valley College, builder plans repeat along whole streets, so a quote drawn from room counts turns out to be unusually close to the real job.
Inside a typical Evergreen home
The modal home is four bedrooms over two floors, 1,800 to 2,600 square feet, tile in the entry and kitchen and carpet everywhere else. Glass shower doors are near universal and pick up hard-water scale fast on this side of the valley. A handful of newer courts sit under an association with shared drives and visitor-parking rules. Older single-story pockets survive down on the flats in 95121, closer to the fairground.