Rios Clementi Hale Studios renovated and expanded an eclectic, 1980s manor house into a contemporary ?farmhouse? retreat for a film and television producer.  Since the original house was already well situated in its orientation to canyon views, the architects kept the building footprint in place and preserved the height and steep pitch of the roof to create a loft feeling inside.  They extensively remodeled and expanded the interiors to open the rooms, simplify the circulation, better capture views, and blur the boundary between indoors and outdoors.  The architects maximized the existing ?bones? of the house and then focused on letting the landscape flow through.  

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Architects: Rios Clementi Hale Studios
Location: United States, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: John Ellis

Interior Designer: Waldo?s Designs

© John Ellis

From the architect. Rios Clementi Hale Studios renovated and expanded an eclectic, 1980s manor house into a contemporary ?farmhouse? retreat for a film and television producer.  Since the original house was already well situated in its orientation to canyon views, the architects kept the building footprint in place and preserved the height and steep pitch of the roof to create a loft feeling inside.  They extensively remodeled and expanded the interio...