ASPIRE DESIGN HOME: Mercantile And Merchant Brings English Whimsy To The West Coast

Do you know when you talk to someone for the first time and they completely understand what you do, and you understand what they want? It was such a great synergy. My clients loved the fact that I’m very much into color. They wanted the antithesis of the modern farmhouse. They didn’t want white walls and cold spaces with huge volumes. I’m all about the house being easy to live in: We must live in [our residences] in a modern way, but they shouldn’t be cold, clinical, and miss all the charm and whimsy of traditional homes. I always work with Ryan Perella, who is a dear friend, on architecture. When we landed on that design, it was important to me not to have a garage. In fact, there’s no garage in the whole project. It was a better use of space to have a killer ADU and a really great house.

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