Greenbrae homes, up close
This is a postwar subdivision that aged unusually well. Houses stepping up from Bon Air were designed around the view: wide glazing on the downhill side, low-pitch roofs, a carport or under-house garage, an open plan a crew can move through fast. What slows the visit is glass. There is a lot of it, it all faces the marsh, and it shows every mark within days.
Being unincorporated matters less than people expect. Bon Air Center, the creek path and Hal Brown Park anchor the week whether an address is technically in Larkspur or on county land, and we clean both without asking which. The slope is the part that does matter: streets climbing toward the ridge have short, sharp driveways and front doors up a run of steps, so the approach gets planned rather than assumed.
What Greenbrae homes are like to clean
Almost everything dates from a fifteen-year window after the war. Figure 1,500 to 2,300 square feet over two levels, an entry at street grade with living space toward the back, hardwood or laminate in the main rooms and carpet in bedrooms. A good number of houses still have original bathrooms — small wall tile, narrow grout lines, an exhaust fan doing more work than it should. Along Eliseo Drive the pattern shifts to elevator condominiums and level townhomes.