Rare NorCal beach home of Amy’s Kitchen co-founders offers Tahiti, Bali vibes
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- Andy and Rachel Berliner are putting Balinese-inspired Stinson compound on the market.
- Each of the five bedrooms is housed in its own Bali joglo pavilion.
- The compound has a front-row relationship to the ocean, beach access, and a pool.
Amy’s Kitchen co-founders Andy and Rachel Berliner are putting a very different kind of Stinson Beach getaway on the market: a Balinese-inspired compound in a gated community.
Priced at $16 million, the five-bedroom residence at 172 Seadrift Road is being pitched less as a classic Northern California beach house and more as a private tropical retreat — one that blends Tahitian and Balinese design with a front-row ocean setting on one of California’s most storied stretches of sand.
In a place where many homes lean into glass, driftwood tones and a conventional layout, this one sprawls like a resort, with sleeping quarters separated into individual pavilion-like structures.
“It’s the kind of property that makes people stay longer than they planned because they don’t really want to leave,” listing agent Butch Haze of Compass said in an email. “You walk through the gate and suddenly the stress level drops about 50%.”
The home’s standout feature — and the detail that’s unusual even by Marin County standards — is how the bedrooms are arranged. Each of the five bedrooms is housed in its own “Bali joglo,” a traditional Indonesian pavilion structure known for dramatic peaked roofs. Instead of a hallway of bedrooms under a single roof, the sleeping spaces are dispersed across the property, each with direct access to the gardens — a design more commonly found in tropical destinations than in a tony coastal enclave about 35 miles north of San Francisco.
The result is a compound that encourages a kind of indoor-outdoor rhythm: step out of your bedroom into greenery, drift through the garden, and end up at the pool or the beach.
The property description describes a place where “sliding glass doors disappear” and the home “opens to the gardens, the pool and the beach beyond,” positioning the experience as effortless. Think sandy feet, long lunches, morning coffee with the Pacific.
If that sounds like marketing, it is — but the sellers say the feeling is real. In a joint statement, Andy and Rachel Berliner said the garden was what captured them first.
“The moment we saw the garden, we fell in love with it,” the husband-and-wife team said. “When we first enter the garden we feel we are entering a tropical paradise. It is so private and colorful and green and you can look up and see the mountains, Mount Tam.”
They described the property as an oasis, where views pull your attention in multiple directions at once.
“In the kitchen you can see the mountains and the ocean at the same time that you are cooking or eating,” their statement said. “From the bedrooms, you look into the garden. From the primary bedroom, you look out onto the ocean.”
That relationship to the water is a key selling point. The living room and primary suite face the ocean, delivering what the listing calls a rare “front-row relationship” to the beach.
And there’s a privacy angle, too — one that matters in a beach town where a good day can draw crowds. The Berliners said the home sits at a level that preserves the view while keeping passing foot traffic out of sight.
“The house is situated at a level where on the ocean side you can see the ocean and the sky, but not all the people walking up and down the beach, which makes it so private,” the couple said.
In Stinson, where many properties rely on the ocean itself as the main amenity, another feature stands out: a pool. Pools are scarce in the area, Haze noted, and the marketing leans into that rarity — especially when paired with immediate beach access.
The Berliners said they loved the pool’s look and the way the home’s design blurs boundaries between inside and out:
“We love the tiles on the side of the pool and the color of the pool. You open the large sliding window windows in the front and the large sliding window towards the pool and the air flows right through, and it’s like you’re outside but you’re inside.”
They also framed it as a two-temperature lifestyle: Pacific plunge followed by a warm soak.
“We love taking a quick dip in the ocean and then running in and jumping into a warm pool” they said.
The Berliners are well known in the business world through Amy’s Kitchen, the organic-food pioneer that helped bring natural and vegetarian frozen meals into mainstream grocery aisles. They bought the property in 2011 for $5.7 million, according to public records.
While the property is a showpiece, the reason for selling is personal. The Berliners said their daughter, son-in-law and grandson have moved to Hawaii, and they plan to follow.
“Our daughter, son-in-law and grandson moved to Hawaii so we need to try to replace this magical house with something over there,” they said. “Incredible fond memories of our time there.”
Haze, who is marketing the home through Compass, said the transportive quality of the Stinson Beach getaway isn’t subtle.
“I’ve sold a lot of homes over the years, but this is one of the few where I found myself checking flight prices to Bali afterward,” he said. “The funny thing is, you’re still in Marin County.”
The marketing team understood that sentiment, describing the home as “Tahitian, Balinese, and Stinson all wrapped in one.”
This story was originally published June 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM with the headline "Rare NorCal beach home of Amy’s Kitchen co-founders offers Tahiti, Bali vibes."
