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• Ode to the Little House

  08 Jan 2012

  I once owned a 2400 square foot hillside home with a spectacular, unobstructed view of Downtown LA. During my 4-year ownership, my then boyfriend and I used the living room a total of 3 times, the formal dining room less than 10 and the guest room, once. Though the house wowed, I wasn’t happy. In fact, I was far from it. This house had been a gift to myself for working hard and was a significant “upgrade” from my little house–a 940 square foot, 1928 Spanish revival that sat at the bottom of this massive hill. Two years after buying the big house, I rented it out and moved back into my little house. I realized that I missed the fruit of my painstaking restoration–the handmade tiles that found permanent homes on the walls of my kitchen, the original oak floors I refinished, the original arches, moldings, glass doorknobs and the lathe and plaster walls that survived nearly 100 years through countless California earthquakes. I missed my one true love and felt saddened that I had succumbed to the lure of the McMansion–the big house that was devoid of history, character and personality. It was just a collection of rooms…

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