With vast views and clean lines, a Mulholland Drive remodel takes its owners to a higher plane

MARCEL Sitcoske and Michael Oddo were living off Mulholland Drive when they bought a house nearby three years ago with plans to fix it up and sell. Oddo recalls taking floor plans along with photographs to the Los Angeles building department. "The guys there laughed and said they'd never seen anything this ugly," he says. "And they've seen a lot."

By Janet Eastman

July 3, 2008