Raul Garduno-designed Silver Lake home

Ileene Bernard looks at the Hollywood Hills from the Raul Garduno-designed Silver Lake home she and husband Herbert Bernard have lived in since 1965.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The entry panel, right, was redone by architect Lorcan O’Herlihy.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Herbert Bernard reads in the library.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Bernard sits at the piano, which holds a photo of Ileene, left, her brother Robert and sister Irene Martin taken in 1936 in El Paso, Texas.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

In the living room, the floor-to- ceiling glass panels offer views, an abundance of light and surprising privacy.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The Bernards also chose to keep the original warm color palette, created for the house by furniture designers Van Keppel-Green.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Herbert and Ileene Bernard on the deck of their Silver Lake home.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The backyard kitchen.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Ileene Bernard in the kitchen with the original cork tile floor. The couple refinished the floor instead of replacing it.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

In the bedroom, a skylight with tiles made by the original owner Flemming Drefeld, who commissioned the home.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

An in-wall birch bookcase is in the bedroom.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The Roman-style bathroom  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Steps leading up to the Garduno house entrance.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The doorbell is on the stairway. By the time guests reach the front door, the owners will be there waiting.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The 1,200-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath, house in Silver Lake dramatically cantilevers from the hillside.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The house has a barrel roof design.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

A light hangs from the plywood barrel vaulted ceiling, which reaches up to 16 feet high and gives the home an airy feeling.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)