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Authentic California Estate in Montecito Commanding ocean views from this serene and totally private gated sanctuary.The house and guest house, listed with Nancy Kogevinas of Prudential California Realty, embody the early California style of an authentic estate.Resting on 12+ sprawling acres, the property feels like an exclusive old world resort. Guest House, Caretakers Quarters, Wine Cellar, Theater, Avocado Orchard, ... Riviera Home Designed by Jeff Shelton There’s a reason Annie and Paul de Bruyn Kops use the word “magical” to describe their Riviera home.With artisanal features like sculpted stucco walls and handcrafted tiles, the three-thousand square foot space feels like a gigantic work of art. This makes perfect sense since Annie was a longtime art instructor at Cold Spring ... Grace Design Associates Fire Restoration After the November, 2008 Santa Barbara “Tea Fire”, hundreds of homes and gardens were devastated.Grace Design Associates, an award-winning Santa Barbara-headquartered design firm, built a new hillside garden, where little was left but scorched earth. The fire burned thousands of acres, and destroyed hundreds of homes. Enter Margie Grace, who assessed the damage and came up ... Cabana Home Designs a Montecito Masterpiece A hilltop home with dramatic views strikes a balance between traditional and contemporary.The furniture is classic with a twist, a Cabana Home signature.The result is a residence that is both grand and welcoming, with interior textures and colors woven seamlessly throughout, creating a unified whole. It is not unusual for potential clients to arrive at a ... Lotusland in Santa Barbara Visit Lotusland, a unique 37-acre estate and botanic garden situated in the foothills of Montecito to the east of the city of Santa Barbara. The gardens now covering the estate were created by Madame Ganna Walska who owned the property from 1941 until her death in 1984. Before her death, Madame Walska established the nonprofit Ganna Walska ... Casa del Herrero in Santa Barbara Experience this gracious Montecito estate. Tours of the Casa del Herrero house, gardens and workshop are available by reservation. George Fox Steedman, an industrialist, engineer, and amateur architect, had a vision for the house and grounds that went beyond fashion, and he assembled an extraordinary team of architects, landscape architects, antiquarians, and horticulturists to produce the ... Ensberg Jacobs Design This 1920’s quintessentially romantic Spanish home, located in downtown Santa Barbara, needed restoration, remodeling and bit of expansion to revive for a young family of four. Many of the original features needed restoration and remodeling provided much needed upgrades throughout. Architectural interior adjustments were required to insert an internal stairway connecting the lower garage level to the main level. An addition at the rear ... The Glass Pavilion Listed with Suzanne Perkins, The Glass Pavilion is a redefining structure within modernism.It is a benchmark building that sets the bar as to what modernism is and can be. The combination of architectural groundbreaking style and extreme detail in finish quality make it a home without compare. It is the pinnacle of architecture for this generation ... Mid-Century Modern Ridgetop Renovation High on a ridge in the foothills of Santa Barbara, a low-slung 1960s modern home occupies a site of prime geographic equipoise, with the ocean spreading wide on one side and mountain views rising as soothing spectacle on the other. Bitsy and Denny Bacon live in a residence that had become slightly dated by 2008, when ... Architect’s Digs/ Dawn Sherry Local architect Dawn Sherry and her husband Paul Noury, purchased Grand Times seven years ago and live on the boat year-round. They now offer charters, which include overnight trips to the Channel Islands, and shorter day trips. In addition to being an architect for both commercial and residential projects, Dawn is often involved in designing the interiors for many local restaurants ... The Ablitt Tower in Santa Barbara Architect Jeff Shelton successfully completed the design challenge to build a home on a 20' by 20' lot in the commercial area of downtown Santa Barbara. It took four, long years for Neil and Sue Ablitt and their architect to get approval for their home from the city of Santa Barbara, partly because of their project's improbable downtown ... Ensberg Jacobs Architects Mid-Century Modern This 1,379 SF remodel is lean and green without expensive bells or whistles.Remodeling has respected the original design’s essential qualities – dynamic indoor-outdoor spaces with abundant natural light, natural ventilation via jalousies and “Santa Barbara” doors, and an efficient plan that allows for intimate and large scale entertaining. The original quirky post & beam structure with ... Digs for Sale-Penny Bianchi’s French Farmhouse In the heart of Montecito, you will find a magical, tranquil world on two gorgeous private acres. There is a spacious single-level main house, a separate guest house and garage that create a courtyard, all designed by the owner-decorator. The house is ten years old but feels like it is an authentic farmhouse in the south ... Artist’s Digs/ Lisa Pedersen When Lisa Pedersen and Joe Johnston and their 2 young children decided to make the move to Santa Barbara, they were looking for a property that didn’t need much… maybe new tile in the kitchen, a little landscaping. Soon after their decision to relocate, Lisa happened upon an advertisement about a house on the western end ... Cabana Home Designs El Andaluz Model Cabana Home interior designers Caroline and Steve Thompson have been selected as the designers for the finished model at the new El Anduluz Condominium project at 531 Chapala Street, in Santa Barbara. "We are thrilled to work with this incredibly original project. We have watched this project unfold from day one, and were intrigued since ... Micholyn Brown Transforms Historic Homes These Santa Barbara Beautiful award-winning properties have been completely restored under the watchful eye of interior designer Micholyn Brown of Santa Barbara Style. The downtown projects include adobes in the Historic Landmarked El Caserio enclave and two homes located in the heart of Santa Barbara’s downtown “Pueblo Viejo” district. Micholyn and Fred Brown purchased and renovated a rundown adobe and lived in it for ten years before deciding to split the parcel to ... |
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