Home 2015 | Year in pictures

Architect Daniel Monti is framed by one of three angular windows inside his recently finished jewel box of a space called, "The Amoroso Project," made for a collector featuring video art installations in Venice.

The 1950s Santa Monica Canyon home of Brenda Spira in Pacific Palisades that was designed by Case Study architect Thornton Abell.

Homage To The Square, by Sara Story Design, featuring a dining table by David Wiseman of R & Company, at The Maison de Luxe Designer Show House at the Doheny Greystone Estate in Beverly Hills.

Nina Lederman's kitchen and dining area opens up to outdoor space with mountain views and pool area in Studio City.

Michael Landau tosses a Frisbee to his Australian shepherd, Samson, in his backyard.

"Chapter 4" at the new 5-room Hotel Covell in Los Feliz.

Todd Segal on the back deck at his 625-square-foot home in Highland Park.

Architect John Frane redid the modest-sized kitchen, which was previously enclosed, and created a laundry room with an adjoining bathroom. The Caesarstone-topped center island, shown here, features hidden storage on either side.

Architect Todd Conversano, standing in the living room, looks towards the dining room area of his home in Beverly Hills. Conversano never thought he'd be able to enlarge his 1950's ranch-style home he and his wife bought a decade ago. Second-floor additions typically require extensive and costly structural reinforcement of the existing home. Conversano came up with a solution. "I figured out how to do it without touching the building," he says. That is, he designed a completely separate structure that only appears to sit on the main house.

Robert Shiell's midcentury weekend getaway. Shiell bought the house in a 2013 probate sale and took it down to the studs and proceeded to renovate, keeping the home's original midcentury feel.

Christopher Mercier's renovation of Sunnie Kim's La Canada home. He took a plain Jane, '50s ranch house and turned it into a stylish 21st century home. A feng shui master worked with the architect to imbue the house with feng shui principles.