Spanish Colonial style

This project began 15 years ago, as a new home in a quiet corner of a canyon near the beach--an incredibly private location nestled against a lushly landscaped side of the canyon. Over the course of time, this family eventually purchased the two adjoining properties. We built their main house and since then we have developed a compound. A main focus of the project was to bring as much light into the home as possible (given the location at the bottom of the canyon) and to take advantage of the unique views of nature that this site enjoys. Drawing a significant amount of inspiration from the early California Plein-Air Painters, the buildings are purposefully more about the gardens, with the interior spaces designed to spill out onto genero... More