No one wants to live in a boring house.  Besides having a great design, the outside should "pop".  There are tons of houses here in Los Angeles that are just hideous outside and you wonder how much crack these people when they decided to be the 50th person on their block with that same color door, or paint their house the color of dried mustard/ketchup/relish, or why their California bungalow is being stuccoed.  No one wants to live in a boring house, but why stick out like a sore thumb?

My neighborhood, while not as bad as Santa Monica or Beverly Hills, has it share of bad ideas.  Up the street, most of the homes are either California bungalows, California Mission-style or small Craftsman homes.  In the middle of all this niceness, is this monstrosity that looks like it belongs in a housing development.  Ugh.

Part of being a good neighbor is not offended those people who you're going to be bothering for a few months with construction noise.  How would you like it to hear construction going on for a year and when the house is done, it hideous AND would never fit into your area unless it was torn down again.  We don't want to be those people.  When we build our home, while we do want it to reflect our style and sensibilities, we do want it to blend into the neighborhood, at least for resale reasons. 

We are looking for a team that can help us to decided what materials work best in our climate AND how our choices of materials/colors will affect the rest of the neighborhood.  If you're that person, complete our contractor's form (email us for the PDF version).

Below are a few key design elements we are looking to incorporate into the home: