Before & After: A Highland Park Fixer-Upper Sings With a New Archway Motif

After years of bouncing around LA’s competitive rental market, designer Alfie Koetter and his wife, documentary filmmaker Cristina Costantini, decided to take on a bigger challenge: purchasing a home of their own. It was the height of the pandemic and like many at the time, the duo was tired of being cooped up in their small apartment, so they started scouring the internet for a single-family residence they could customize to their liking.