A highly productive collaboration among a trio of creative Angelenas—and a good dose of Barragán—turned this dark and beleaguered mid-century house into a family home for the ages.
The first thing landscape designer Laura Cooper asked Devis and Purdy was to recall childhood gardens and outdoor play. In that spirit, she designed their backyard, integrating the high ground with the low just outside the “kids’ wing.” The resulting series of outdoor rooms on this quarter-acre is full of memory and play. Some 35 percent of the materials from the renovation were resurrected in the yard: Redwood panels became fencing. Blocks cut from original concrete patios form the snake wall. And Purdy plans to crochet colorful cozies over various branches and stumps.
Photo by Lisa Romerein. Image courtesy of Copyright Lisa Romerein.
