Your front door is the gateway to your home. What does your front door say about you? Are you traditional or adventurous? What color is your front door? Why did you paint it that color? We’d love to hear from our neighbors. – – DM
Archive for the ‘Architectural Preservation’ Category
10 May
Xeriscape: High Style with Low Maintenance
This dramatic front yard on David Avenue is an early adopter of Xeriscaping, showing colorful ways to conserve water while enhancing your home. – – DM
16 Jul
This old house to get new rose garden
We recently met new residents of Reynier Village. Huli and Raphael Sloane, a wife & husband of considerable artistic talent are transplants of Mar Vista. They brought with them 28 of their mature rose bushes and a large Bird of Paradise. They are going to replant them in the yard of their colorful 1914 Craftsman [...]
15 Jul
In 1927, some street names were different
In doing a little historic research on our area, check out this Sanborn map of our neighborhood in 1927. Beverlywood Street used to be Emmalee Street; 25th Street was Henry Butt Avenue; 24th Street was Kelson Avenue; and it looks like Sherbourne (just North of Cadillac) used to be Kalamazoo. Note that south of Cattaraugus [...]
14 Jul
Historic Architecture: ‘Minimal Traditional’, Late 1930′s – 1940′s
To our delight, not all houses in Reynier Village are ‘Spanish Colonial Revival’. We have some fine examples of Tudor/English Revival, Transitional Arts & Crafts, and lesser known as ‘historic’ but nevertheless is, a style called Minimal Traditional, homes that were built in the late 1930′s-1940′s (and lasted until the early 1950’s). You’ve seen Minimal [...]
16 May
2nd story addition looks “original”
Here is a beautiful example of how to preserve the character of a Spanish Colonial Revival home. This new second-story remodel is only a few years old and yet it looks all original, thanks to good planning by an architect and homeowners who have a keen sensitivity for historic design and details (see the wrought [...]
11 May
Martha immortalizes “the Village”
Reynier Village, as described by Los Angeles Times columnist Martha Groves, “contains fine old houses, many of them Spanish Revival in style, loaded with original charm and relatively affordable, at least by the current dizzying standards”. For a delightful overview of Reynier Village and its history, read Martha’s 2006 real estate article “Spanish style still [...]
5 May
SPANISH HOMES, CREATIVE GARDENS
It is truly amazing, when you go for a walk around Reynier Village, to see how many of our neighbors have replaced the water-wasting green lawns with colorful and inventive arrays of drought-resistant plants and flowers. It makes you wonder what’s behind those charming 1930 Spanish facades and tiled roofs… Probably backyards just as creative, [...]
