Phase 1
The traditional 1,200 sf one-story stucco home was built in the 1940’s in the Hollywood Hills. The clients wished to renovate the first floor, add a second story master suite and to entirely recast the old and the new interior spaces into a flowing, open contemporary home with a ‘Japanese’ sensibility.
The program included a new living/dining area and kitchen/breakfast area, both flowing easily to the exterior across wooden decks out on to the lawn and garden beyond. The redesigned entrance leads to a new naturally lit stair rising to the Master Suite.
The second floor suite includes a bedroom/office with a cathedral ceiling, rearyard balconywith a breathtaking view of the San Fernando Valley and mountains beyond. The bathroom’s soaking tub is located to take advantage of this view.
The material palette is kept intentionally spare with white walls, exterior openings and cabinetry trimmed in birch and wood floors throughout.
Phase 2
The original renovation/addition by our firm transformed a traditional home into one with a contemporary ‘Japanese’ sensibility. Ten years later, the original clients asked us to complete their renovation, to redesign and enlarge the remaining two original bedrooms and bath.
The material palette of spare white walls, birch trimmed exterior openings and cabinetry and wood floors throughout is intended to blend seamlessly with the earlier renovation.
The project area included an existing dark hallway leading to two small, underlit bedrooms and an outdated bathroom. Ceilings were raised and small swinging doors now give way to ceiling height pocket doors providing for an expansive and unified suite of spaces. One bedroom serves as an office/library and the other, enlarged with a vaulted ceiling and new larger windows and doors, as a working studio/guestroom.