A Clever Window Treatment: Bus Graphics

A Clever Window Treatment: Bus Graphics

An unlikely source provides a unique privacy solution for a pair of prefab townhouses in Los Angeles.
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Product developer Eric Chu was thrilled with his West L.A. townhouses, which were recently built by architect Whitney Sander from his custom Hybrid House system. But there was one problem: Though the narrow lot allowed for two buildings (one for Chu and the other to rent out), the only way to site them was back to back, with both living areas and upstairs bedrooms squarely facing one another across the small courtyard, and little more than a young Chinese pistache tree between them.

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Aaron Britt
Aaron writes the men’s style column “The Pocket Square” for the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for the New York Times, the Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic and others.

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