A Silver Lake Tudor’s Gut Renovation Shows That Bigger Isn’t Always Better

The facade’s two-tone paint job is just the start for Bestor Architecture’s renovation of a 1926 house overlooking the reservoir.

Barbara Bestor isn’t accustomed to clients looking to renovate without adding on, even if it’s converting a garage into living space. But David Weinberg and Gary Ventimiglia aren’t most clients. They’d actually downsized from a sprawling penthouse apartment in Los Angeles’s famed El Royale when they found a 1,600-square-foot, 1926 Tudor in Silver Lake.

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Kelly Vencill Sanchez
Contributing Editor
Dwell’s Los Angeles-based contributing editor, Kelly has also written about design and architecture for Architectural Digest, Coastal Living, and Luxe.

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