Watsonville | $1.995 Million

A 1978 custom-designed beach house with three bedrooms and three bathrooms, on 0.2 acres

This vacation home is in the front, ocean-facing row of the Pajaro Dunes resort community, a collection of beach houses and rental properties along 1.5 miles of Monterey Bay, about 21 miles southeast of Santa Cruz and 30 miles northeast of Monterey, as the road runs. The architect, William Logan, of Palo Alto, Calif., designed the redwood-plywood-sided building to offer ocean views and access to outdoor decks from most of the rooms, while screening the neighbors. The sellers are the second owners of the house.

Size: 2,049 square feet

Price per square foot: $974

Indoors: The home looks distinctly of its time, with its angular wood walls, light carpets and orange-tile accents. It is built on two levels, around a redwood deck, with the main entrance on the upper floor.

A corridor leads straight to the living room, which has a built-in L-shaped sofa and a free-standing orange fireplace in the corner, with a tubular chimney snaking up to the roof. Glass doors inset into a wall of windows open to a deck looking out on the ocean. The dining area is a few steps up; it has its own deck access on one side and flows into an eat-in kitchen with plywood cabinets topped with orange tile on the other.

Turning left from the front door takes you to a large, two-level bedroom with an en suite bathroom; this room has direct access to the large outdoor deck at the center of the footprint. Two additional bedrooms are on the lower floor.