Ojai

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When all the doors are open, the ranch-style home in Ojai benefits from the cool Southern California evening air.
A giant Series 600 Multi-Slide Door connects the Ladera Project’s magnificent backyard to the living room.
Indoor-outdoor living at its most elegant.
A giant Western Window Systems pivot door greets visitors to the Ladera Project home.

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The Ladera Project

A home with character befitting an independent-minded community.To understand the Ladera Project, it helps to get to know a little about the area in which the modern home sits. The small town of Ojai, in California’s Ventura County, is upscale and breeds a sort of fierce independence, not allowing chain retailers and encouraging boutiques and the kind of small businesses that give a city its character.In other words, Ojai is the perfect site for such a boldly conceived home as Droney & Associates’ Ladera Project, a ranch-style home as unique as Ojai itself, 15 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean.The monolithic structure, with its sleek, smooth steel finishes, takes any preconceived notions about stereotypical Southern Cal... More