Stop 2 on yesterday's CA Boom home tour of West LA was the Red Barn prefab house located at 3710 Grand View. The designer of the home was on site, and gave a brief introductory speech before we started exploring and snapping pictures. The home was built using re-engineered steel, concrete floors (natch) and eco-timber flooring (it's been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council!). The home took nine months to build and actually has a twin next door, although that one appeared to be more of a red barn than the Grand View home. The homes were built for $225-$250 per square foot, excluding the cost of the land. Concrete flooring was used on the ground floor and finished basement area, while teak was used upstairs. Sadly, the home failed to sell (listed for $2.195 million) and has been leased instead. Highlights included the big roll-up window in the living room -- seen it before, but it's still kind of cool -- the chandelier in the large upstairs master-bath (lots of chandeliers seen on the tour) and the downstairs rumpus room, or whatever it is. 3BD/3BA, and a 4-car garage. Huzzah! Very spacious.
· Official Site [3710 Grand View]
· CA Boom House Tours: Alan-Voo House [CA Boom]
Day two of the CA Boom show, and day two of the house tours. Today, the tour bus hit West LA (Mar Vista and Palms). Stop number 4 was the Neil M. Denari designed Alan-Voo House. The muchbloggedabout home took a modest one-story tract home and added a modern two-level rear addition, providing a new master bedroom and downstairs family space. The addition is sparsely furnished--a shared trait among all the homes on today's tour. Sad! We were looking forward to the odd wall art and tacky furniture that makes a home feel alive. Instead, most of the homes felt a little barren and cold. The integration of the addition to the original home appeared fairly seamless and the kitchen was a highlight. The counters, cabinets and appliances blended seamlessly and everything was very, very clean. Small skylights punched through the roof in the kitchen, and large clerestory windows-- located where the addition met the original home--provided amazingly bright light that lit up most of the house. The home was definitely the highlight of the tour.
· CA Boom House Tours: Felderman Keatinge Residence in Pacific Palisades [Curbed LA]
· Alan-Voo House: From Pastel Madness to Tamed Reality [Curbed LA]
More house tour coverage from CA Boom, the three-day design conference in Santa Monica: Yesterday, the tour bus stopped at the Pacific Palisades home of Stanley Felderman and Nancy Keatinge, owners of a design firm in Century City. According to the press release, the owners "reinterpreted the concept of the split level, combining loft and suburban living...corner glass door in the living area slide back to create an open air pavilion." The backyard/back of the living area is indeed the most eye-catching feature of the house, but the lack of privacy--the master bedroom has no doors and is situated close to the front door--irked some members on our tour.
· CA Boom House Tours: Architect Stephen Kanner in Pacific Palisades [Curbed LA]
Good news! For the third year in a row, we will be covering the CA Boom trade show, held this weekend at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. We'll be jumping on as many home tours as possible and taking free samples when available. Stay tuned all weekend long as we'll be posting photos. Please check out past coverage of CA Boom III (here, here, and here) and CA Boom IV (here, here, and here). And don't forget the CA Boom drinking game! Take a swig every time you see wires hanging out from the bottom of a flat screen.
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Good news! For the third year in a row, we will be covering the 
