23 Unconventional Homes Built Around Trees
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When architect Jeremy Levine and his wife, Robin, remodeled their house in the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles, they chose to keep it at the scale of other houses in the neighborhood. They expanded the back and front of the structure by building decks around existing trees on the site. A young, drought-tolerant Tristania conferta (also known as Australian brush box tree) grows up through the "chill-out room" under the deck at the rear of the house.