North Bay Construction, LLC
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El Camino del Mar, Sea Cliff- Elevator

This cutting-edge residential infrastructure project introduces an ultra-luxurious pneumatic or hydraulic private home elevator system, masterfully integrated across a multi-story custom estate. The elevator design prioritizes high-end architectural aesthetics, wrapping a state-of-the-art stainless steel and glass observation car within a seamlessly hidden structural shaftway. Clever engineering integrates a hidden pivot door that functions as an exterior privacy shield to mask the elevator landing when not in use. Featuring premium tech controls and polished marble landing thresholds, this mobility upgrade effortlessly coordinates ultimate accessibility with a sleek, contemporary residential layout.

Key Features of This Remodel
- Glass & Stainless Private Elevator: The custom elevator cabin features a highly polished brushed stainless steel frame, matching interior grab rails, a digital blue-LED deck indicator plate, and telescoping floor-to-ceiling glass panel sliding doors.
- Ingenious Hidden Pocket Pivot Door: To maintain the home’s minimalist design flow, the elevator shaft is concealed on upper levels behind a full-height hidden wall panel or pivot door with a narrow observation slot that rests flush when closed.
- Bright Skylit Landing Corridors: Each elevator shaft exit opens onto a premium, sun-drenched foyer landing characterized by large viewing windows that look out to neighborhood scenery and reflective, large-format marble floor tiling.
- Modern Minimalist Call Stations: Wall-mounted exterior call panels are kept deliberately low-profile, featuring simple, clean brushed-metal faceplates with backlit buttons that coordinate beautifully with the surrounding white gallery walls.

Scope of Work
The scope of work for this ultra-luxury home accessibility remodel required highly advanced architectural engineering, complex structural masonry, and precision finish integration. General contractors cut through multiple subfloors to construct a continuous, plumb vertical elevator shaftway with a concrete foundation pit base. Structural framing crews reinforced the shaft perimeters with heavy steel beams, while elevator mechanical teams rigged the hydraulic lift rails, traction cables, digital control brains, and the brushed stainless steel observation car assembly. Electricians ran dedicated high-voltage lines to fuel the lift motor, backup emergency batteries, blue-LED cab displays, internal phone systems, and flush cabin ceiling downlights. Carpentry teams fabricated custom hidden facade doors with glass observation slits to disguise the shaft openings on adjacent living room floors. The transformation concluded with installing telescoping automatic glass elevator doors, laying premium marble floor tiles at each threshold landing, fitting exterior brushed-gold push call plates, and complete drywall finish painting.
Project Year: 2021
Project Cost: $1,000,001 - $1,500,000