Santa Monica Shangri-La: A tropical family retreat
A couple rebuild an English-style house into an indoor-outdoor play space, a tropical resort all their own. Story
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By David A. Keeps( Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times )
Bob Ramirez and Lorri Kline turned a 2,300-square-foot traditional English-style house in Santa Monica into a 3,700-square-foot tropical retreat, replete with the open-air rooms, exposed wooden posts and beams and the steeply pitched roof of a Bali beach resort. For Ramirez, a custom home designer and builder, and Kline, an interior finishes specialist, what had been a country-style escape is now their family's Shangri-La. Here, son Gabriel emerges from the koi pond. "He learned to snorkel here before we added our pool," Kline says. Behind Gabriel: the two-story guesthouse with an aviary and rabbit hutch on the right.
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