Little Holmby
Residence

The house was 1940s — the kind of Westside California that gets quietly rarer every year. A dignified plan, good proportions, original moldings still patient under several coats of careless paint. The family had bought it knowing it could be more than it was, and they brought the studio in early — before the architects had finished, while the rooms were still drawings.

We worked from those drawings forward. Tile selections decided when ceilings were still framed in. Lighting plans specified before drywall. The slow, layered kind of work that lets an interior feel like it has always been here — never like an interior that was applied once construction was done.

The furniture and antiques came together across the second year. A pair of Indian dhurries that took five months to track down. Curtains that began as an idea about late afternoon light and ended as twenty-six yards of hand-loomed Belgian linen. The rooms you see now are a record of two years of small, slow decisions, made one at a time, with people we came to know.