BOB BEITCHER says he and his wife, Carol, want their newly built home in Santa Monica to be a showcase of sustainable practices “without being granola-y, if you know what I mean.”
Their house off San Vicente Boulevard has been carefully designed by architect Warren Wagner to optimize solar energy and the use of recycled and renewable materials. Yet the modernist dwelling seems more about the panache of architectural possibilities than the virtuousness of green design.
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After Hurricane Ivan devastated her home in 2004, Barbara Rankin decided that she needed some help with putting it back together. It was then she heard about a talented local interior designer named Pamela Graham.
Ms Graham helped Ms Rankin not only to redecorate her home, but to completely rethink the design of her dwelling place.
Like all good interior designers, Ms Graham didn’t impose her ideas on Ms Rankin, but first spent a lot of time listening to her and finding out exactly what she wanted. (more…)
Kerri Tassin found the perfect front door with leaded glass for the craftsman-style bungalow she and her husband, Stephen, built four years ago near Willard. So she called the nearest distributor in St. Louis to place an order.
They only work with contractors, they told Tassin without even asking if she might be one.
“It was a little bit sexist,” says Kerri, a petite woman who considers herself rather quiet and reserved. (more…)
