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Beige House

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Beige House. Photography Eric Staudenmaier.

Year: 2025

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Client: Jon & Berta

First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Jono Coles, Bailey Bestul, Aram Radfar

Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering

Contractor and Landscape Architect: Double Iris

Murals: Lara Apponyi 

Photography: Eric Staudenmaier

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Entry to the Beige House. Photography Eric Staudenmaier.

Beige House is a renovation and an extension of a 2,220 square foot midcentury ranch home in Los Angeles. Instead of rebuilding, the project focused on restoration and incremental improvements.

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CNC-milled model (Valchromat MDF).

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Plans of the ranch house, first as seen on the TV show Housewives of Beverly Hills, and then as updated for our clients Jon & Berta.

We prioritized cleaning up the plan, improving circulation, and enhancing light and views in the original organization of the house. A hallway was widened and streamlined to offer a clear circulatory spine and an organizational element to the house. This required moving a wall back to its original location to realign with the structural elements that had been shifted during a previous renovation and left in a precarious position.

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©Staudenmaier

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©Staudenmaier

A kitchen that had been relocated and renovated for filming The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills by the previous owner was returned to its original central location, restoring the intended communal rapport among cooking, dining, and living spaces.

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©Staudenmaier

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We developed a thick infrastructure for the house to provide shade and functional storage both outside and within. At the threshold to the pool deck, a new light-frame structure now supports a retractable awning. The soft material dampens California's high-contrast light, while the steel columns establish a clear spatial framework for the deck, ordering outdoor furniture, and providng a backdrop to the landscaped yard. On the interior, custom built-ins, milled cabinetry, and integrated storage replace decades of ad-hoc modifications and the stripping bare of a liveable home into a TV set. 

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©Staudenmaier

Minor extensions to the existing house improve proportions of rooms, enhance views to the mountains, and allow for larger sliding doors that strengthen the connection between interior and exterior without altering the overall scale of the house. Attention to artful details and a unifying material palette guided our work throughout the process.

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Kids' rooms above were painted by Lara Apponyi. Bathroom and Laundry rooms below. ©Staudenmaier

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Indoor bath, outoor shower, pool. Favorite detail: running downspout parallel to column. ©Staudenmaier

Beige House

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Beige House. Photography Eric Staudenmaier.

Year: 2025

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Client: Jon & Berta

First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Jono Coles, Bailey Bestul, Aram Radfar

Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering

Contractor and Landscape Architect: Double Iris

Murals: Lara Apponyi 

Photography: Eric Staudenmaier

First Office

Entry to the Beige House. Photography Eric Staudenmaier.

Beige House is a renovation and an extension of a 2,220 square foot midcentury ranch home in Los Angeles. Instead of rebuilding, the project focused on restoration and incremental improvements.

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CNC-milled model (Valchromat MDF).

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Plans of the ranch house, first as seen on the TV show Housewives of Beverly Hills, and then as updated for our clients Jon & Berta.

We prioritized cleaning up the plan, improving circulation, and enhancing light and views in the original organization of the house. A hallway was widened and streamlined to offer a clear circulatory spine and an organizational element to the house. This required moving a wall back to its original location to realign with the structural elements that had been shifted during a previous renovation and left in a precarious position.

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©Staudenmaier

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©Staudenmaier

A kitchen that had been relocated and renovated for filming The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills by the previous owner was returned to its original central location, restoring the intended communal rapport among cooking, dining, and living spaces.

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First Office

©Staudenmaier

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©Staudenmaier

We developed a thick infrastructure for the house to provide shade and functional storage both outside and within. At the threshold to the pool deck, a new light-frame structure now supports a retractable awning. The soft material dampens California's high-contrast light, while the steel columns establish a clear spatial framework for the deck, ordering outdoor furniture, and providng a backdrop to the landscaped yard. On the interior, custom built-ins, milled cabinetry, and integrated storage replace decades of ad-hoc modifications and the stripping bare of a liveable home into a TV set. 

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©Staudenmaier

Minor extensions to the existing house improve proportions of rooms, enhance views to the mountains, and allow for larger sliding doors that strengthen the connection between interior and exterior without altering the overall scale of the house. Attention to artful details and a unifying material palette guided our work throughout the process.

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Kids' rooms above were painted by Lara Apponyi. Bathroom and Laundry rooms below. ©Staudenmaier

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Indoor bath, outoor shower, pool. Favorite detail: running downspout parallel to column. ©Staudenmaier