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Pro Portfolio: A Spanish remodel in Santa Monica

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Architect: Deborah Teltscher, (310) 991-3719, djteltscher@gmail.com

Lansdcape designer: Katherine Glascock

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Location: Santa Monica
Goals: To add a second story, a home office with a separate entrance and an outdoor play area.

Architect’s description: The existing one-story house was a small (1,944-square-foot) Spanish-style single-family home built in 1942. The rectangular lot slopes about six feet from the street to a rear alley and is next to a Rite-Aid drugstore parking lot. The challenge was to add a second story, an office with a separate patient entrance for the husband, who is a psychiatrist and sees patients at home, and to create a safe outdoor play space for the couple’s two children, screening them from view of the patients and the parking lot next door.

The design includes a new front entry hall; a reworked kitchen/family/dining room; a home office for the wife, a physician; two children’s rooms with shared bath; and guest room/bath upstairs.

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The existing master suite was remodeled and enlarged to include a walk-in closet, window seat/ dressing area and a domed ceiling. The existing detached garage was demolished and a new garage was added at the alley, with a new basement underneath and the office for the husband on top. With the additions, the home now totals 5,250 square feet. To see more photos, click to the jump ...



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Photo: The office, which sits atop the new garage, has a separate entrance for patients. Because privacy was important, acoustical consultants were called for sound-proofing. The fireplace is limestone. The windows are from Architectural Traditions.




-- Anne Harnagel

Top two photo credits: Pete Bleyer

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