Here's the exterior of the Courtyard Apartments today. As Taalman writes in her Week 1 post: "We first visited the Courtyard Apartments several years earlier—our friend Patricia lived in one of the units and we fell in love with its simple efficiency, and its ability to make living in central Hollywood feel like living the ideal indoor-outdoor Southern California lifestyle. Now, seeing the unit available for rent, we saw the building as a model for living in Los Angeles as it should have been: a simple 3,200-square-foot, two-story, four-unit block, each 800-square-foot unit with its own private courtyard." Photo 1 of 15 in Taalman/Koch Renovation Recap by Jaime Gillin

Taalman/Koch Renovation Recap

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Here's the exterior of the Courtyard Apartments today. As Taalman writes in her Week 1 post: "We first visited the Courtyard Apartments several years earlier—our friend Patricia lived in one of the units and we fell in love with its simple efficiency, and its ability to make living in central Hollywood feel like living the ideal indoor-outdoor Southern California lifestyle. Now, seeing the unit available for rent, we saw the building as a model for living in Los Angeles as it should have been: a simple 3,200-square-foot, two-story, four-unit block, each 800-square-foot unit with its own private courtyard."