The Project: Weslin Avenue, Robots, Rock and Roll

The Place: Sherman Oaks, California

The Conversation: Our client, a film writer, wanted his collections of guitars, robots, rock and roll memorabilia and art on display and organized. He wanted his television positioned at sitting eye-level and he wanted a new kitchen open to the dining and living rooms.

The Design Story:

The client provided a lot of “stuff” for us to work with and put on display. There was a guitar, it had been damaged, we deconstructed the guitar and floated it out from the wall above the fireplace. T.V. placement in the light filled living room was challenging. We had seen some interesting cast iron riser pipes with shut-offs at another project that was under demolition, so we salvaged those pipes and repurposed them to float the T.V. in front of a floor to ceiling window wall. The cast iron pipe became the power and cable chase for the media equipment and pivoted allowing the T.V. to turn in various directions.

The new kitchen cabinets, veneered in quarter sawn Anigre, are designed to do double time as concealed storage cabinets at the entry hall. The kitchen drop-ceiling was removed and a skylight installed adding more natural light in the kitchen, entry hall and down the stairwell.

The client likes objects organized in grids and lined up, and so we incorporated contrasting vertical and horizontal reveals in the millwork walls to space wall art and used built-in ledges to line up small objects.

This was a fun project for our us to design.

Photography: Larry Lazzaro