Way Out West
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Architect Joe Day and his wife, Nina Hachigian, transformed a 1940s tract house in Silver Lake into a hard-edged but open home that engages the neighborhood and takes advantage of the views.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Joe Day and Nina Hachigian relax on their terrace overlooking the hills in Silver Lake area of Los Angeles.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Hachigian and Day in the living room/screening room, which opens onto a terrace above a reconstructed garage. The living-room table with a resin-and-acrylic top was designed by Hachigian’s brother, Garo.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Day skinned the house in corrugated-aluminum siding, a tough industrial palette he picked up while designing airports. The corrugated stainless steel canopy was fabricated by Day’s former SCI-Arc classmates.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Hachigian and daughter Sosi in the renovated kitchen, which opens up to an outdoor dining terrace. The dining table was reconditioned from a language lab, its top wrapped in stainless steel. Dining chairs are by Kartell.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Day designed the plywood-and-aluminum platform bed in the master bedroom, which also opens onto a shady private terrace. The painting is by An Te Liu.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
The family that works together stays together: Hachigian and Day at his-and-hers workstations in the shared lower-level study.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
The lower-level guest room, which makes inventive use of a hospital curtain.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
A roll-down shade encloses a guest bath on the lower level. The bath tile is two-by-two Daltile mosaic. The sink is from Kroin.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Sosi gets into trouble beneath a colorful grid painted by her dad as a riff on the German painter Gerhard Richter.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Day, Hachigian, and Sosi congregate on the back terrace at a dining table designed by Day and his brother-in-law, Garo Hachigian.Photo by: Gregg Segal -
Day takes a swim in a new lap pool framed by a lush Southern California garden. The lower wall next to the pool is made from stacked Pennsylvania bluestone, which was used for all exterior stone as well.Photo by: Gregg Segal
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