Every week, our House Calls feature takes you into homes with great style, big personality, and ineffable soul. Today, we look at what many would consider a design unicorn: A midcentury home that?s been nearly unaltered since the day it was finished in 1952. It belongs to the Keelers, a couple who began furnishing their dream home decades before they ever laid eyes on it.

Left: Sean and Amy Keeler were astonished and delighted to find an intact Eichler on the market. It had been owned by only one other person, who kept it in pristine condition. Right: The couple's lives have been transformed by the architecture of their new home. They went from a very inward-facing Victorian to a modern house that throws its arms around the backyard.
At Curbed, we cover a lot of homes that have be remodeled to glory. This is a different kind of story, one about a couple who has done virtually nothing to their new home. In fact, their appreciation for their Eichler and its original state led to them owning it in the first place.
"We were living in a Victorian house in San Francisco, but we needed to be closer to work on the Peninsula," says Amy Keeler. "My husband, Sean, is a physician and he has to be able to get to work quickly. Over the years, the commute from San Francisco became harder and harder. We had to move."
But looking at homes in the 650 area code, prices being what they are, was nearly enough to induce a medical incident. T...