A Midcentury Modern Home in Los Angeles Returns to Its Roots

But the property owners didn’t just take on the renovation and reimagining of their 2,418-square-foot abode by yourself. One particular of Lacey’s greatest mates, fellow storytelling commercial director and designer Claire Thomas, led the inside layout job, with Rendell lending a hand on a personalized pastime, carpentry. “It is exceptionally surprising I fell so deeply in like with the house from the first listing images,” suggests Lacey. “What I did see beyond the chocolate brown painted ceilings and stone tile loos was a truly special post-and-beam architectural treehouse with flooring-to-ceiling windows that invite in the stunning, safeguarded canyon views.” Claire and Lacey made it their position to return the home—originally developed by surfer-turned-architect Matt Kivlin—to its correct mother nature.

The late ’50s, to Claire, evoke earthy California tones of marigold and avocado. And indeed a inexperienced, brown, yellow, and orange palette was solidified early on when she received at auction a sequence of vintage Swissair posters depicting numerous aerial landscapes in all those shades. “They connected with that general aesthetic we ended up trying to hit—really earthy California canyon, late ’50s, early ’60s references with earth traveler power,” says Claire.