Before & After: Big Color and Pattern Give a Drab L.A. Midcentury a Major Glow Up
A multiphased makeover revived this 1963 Los Angeles home with effusive color and playful pattern.
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"There was an institutional gray that repeated throughout the house," designer Frances Merrill says while thinking back to her first visit to this L.A. home originally designed and built by architect Robert Lee in 1963.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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