Lisa Little's Chartreuse House, a Venice bungalow made modern
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By Debra Prinzing
Lisa Little was working toward her master's at the Southern California Institute of Architecture when she and husband Phil Brennan bought a tiny lot in Venice that barely fit two tiny houses: an 850-square-foot bungalow built in 1905 and a 450-square-foot rental built in 1912. The goal: Keep the scale and period feel of the facade, but make the interiors larger, more modern and more functional. |
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utilitopia at 10:49 AM November 26, 2010
How wonderful to be rich.
A very inviting place. My only reservations:
- was it really a good idea to put transparent sections in the catwalk?
- I'm willing to bet the lofted bathtub sees almost no use after the novelty wears off.
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WOW! I so thoroughly enjoyed this! The transparent sections in the catwalk add to the "larger space" feeling overall. This sort of design really appeals to the "empty nester". We like the small but open feeling and we could care less about the old traditional small cut up spaces they we do not want to die in. I felt comfortable in it right away and enjoyed walking through each photo. I felt I could breathe and begin again not to burdened by all that occurred before. Says a lot about the architecture doesn't it?