Before & After: A New, Open Plan Irons Out the Kinks of a Semicircular Home in L.A.

When designer Mandy Cheng first visited this home in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, it had been recently tidied. "The owners did their best to hide everything," she says with a laugh. "The things they couldn’t hide, they stacked very neatly against the wall." But by Cheng’s second visit, the secret was out: "I realized how badly they needed storage and a more open, seamless floor plan with defined spaces."