![]() ![]() While the dated interior treatments stood out, “There was an amazing sawtooth living room ceiling with clerestory glass,” Rabin says. The wife’s name was Evelina-and the neighbors always referenced how wonderful they were and how much they loved to entertain.”ĭetermined to channel some of Evelina’s 1960s glamour into the much-needed renovation-in addition to an interiors overhaul, the home’s layout needed tweaking-the couple hired Daniel Rabin and Annie Ritz of Los Angeles–based And And And Studio to help them transform the dated structure into a warm, family-friendly abode. “The couple before us had lived in the house since it was built. “You could already see the potential based on the shape, even though it was fully carpeted and covered in about 5,000 yards of fabric,” the wife recalls. Designed by Johnston & D’Agostino Architects and built in 1953 for the Los Feliz Estates, the one-story home had the potential to be a midcentury charmer. We didn’t find our home that day, but brought me to this neighborhood.”Ī small community that feels slightly off the beaten path, Los Feliz quickly became the epicenter for the couple’s real estate hunt-and not long after, another home in the area came up for sale. “We would go out and see all of these houses and take tours,” the wife says, “but nothing felt quite right.” That afternoon in Los Feliz, she recalls: “The house was beautiful, but it was out of our price range. At the time the couple lived in Beachwood Canyon, but had been on the hunt to buy a home for a while. After spending most of her life on the East Coast, in both Miami and New York (and three years in a long-distance relationship with a man who lived in LA), she had sold her business and relocated to the West Coast to be closer to that boyfriend (now husband). Seven years ago, a New York transplant was walking along Los Feliz Boulevard in Los Angeles when she saw an open house sign and decided to pop in. ![]()
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