Some people move into a house and adjust to their surroundings. When Lisa Edwards and Tracy Moore moved into their 1926 Wilshire Park home,the landscape oil paintings pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. it was more like they and the house became fast, dear friends: Each gave a little,When the stone sits in the oil painting reproduction, appreciating each other's wonders and uncovering the other's personality and past.
Over five years, they have woven family treasures with the original architecture to make a place both unusual and instantly comfortable.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. Japanese pieces mix with Mexican pieces. Modernist, minimalist chairs designed by Harry Bertoia for Knoll fit comfortably with the exuberantly decorative tiles by the pool. Hollywood photos mingle with folk art.
Edwards, a rabbi, and Moore, who is retired, have painted the walls with enthusiastic colors - orange, red and blue - mirroring the attitude these two women bring to a house full of books and art. When Moore is showing a visitor around, Edwards warns that her wife could talk about the house all day.
Their home is one of six stops on a Nov. 6 Los Angeles Conservancy tour to show off three Historic Preservation Overlay Zones: Wilshire Park, Country Club Park and Windsor Village.
The first house in the agricultural area that became Wilshire Park was built in 1907, and within two decades nearly every lot was developed - in Craftsman, Dutch Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and other styles - as people sought homes away from but convenient to the city center.
The neighborhood, just south of Wilshire Boulevard about five miles west of downtown, was home to wealthy people as well as residents who bought "cute little colonials," said Robby O'Donnell, a former neighborhood association president who worked hard to get the HPOZ established.
The original occupants of Moore and Edwards' four-bedroom house were Polish immigrants, the second Jewish family on the block, a couple who owned a shop in Boyle Heights, Moore said. The architect isn't known, but the house, also home to six children, was built with just one bathroom.
"We want to really showcase historic houses, especially in Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, as being historic and yet really current with today's time," said Linda Dishman, executive director of the conservancy. "That house shows a great respect for history but a very strong current of the owners' personality and their love of color."
The way Moore and Edwards live in their Spanish Colonial Revival illustrates "how homes that are historical don't have to look like museums," O'Donnell said.
"My mother was an interior decorator - not by vocation. She would walk into people's houses and rearrange things. A lot of people asked her to do it,Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year." Edwards said.
When the couple saw the house, there was no doubt: They walked in, picked up the phone and began the process of making the house their home, Moore said.
The process continues. Just a few weeks before the tour, roofers were at work on the multicolored concrete tiles. Swatches of paint in greens and grays could be seen all over the stucco exterior as they decided on just the right shade.
Steps beyond the front door, past the huge coral tree that takes up nearly half the yard, the blending of times and places begins in the living room, with its 14-foot barrel ceiling, original crown molding and what they believe is an authentic Batchelder tile fireplace.
"One of the requirements was that it be able to hold my family rug," Moore said.
The red and blue Oriental-style rug was made in the early 20th century and belonged first to Moore's cousin's grandparents, then the cousin, and then Moore's parents before it came to her. When she and Edwards lived in New York City, they had only enough space to partially unroll it on the floor.
Over the mantel hangs a portrait of Virginia Woolf by California-born artist Anne Hoenig,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. and on the mantel sits a large bowl, collected on one of the couple's trips to Oaxaca, Mexico. On another wall is a 1962 George Barris photograph of Marilyn Monroe, bucking the sex goddess stereotype in a large-weave sweater.
"We are not big fans of Marilyn Monroe, but I just loved that photograph," Moore said.
Two long cushy white couches flank an enormous ottoman, covered in kilim - a piece Edwards calls the "Ottoman empire."
One of Edwards' favorite spots is the doorway between the living and dining rooms. Four panels of glass doors cleverly and elegantly fold as they open and close.
"I instantly loved them, but I didn't get the whole design of them until we moved in," she said.
Edwards, 59, and Moore, 68, also have lived in Iowa City, Jerusalem and Brooklyn, and some possessions are equally well-traveled, including the Ivers & Pond piano.
Moving often provides stories, and the piano has one. Edwards and Moore arrived in New York on a Friday, and their movers tried to get the piano to their second-floor apartment. They could not. And so they unloaded it on the street, leaving Moore and Edwards to assume they'd take turns guarding it all night long.
Over five years, they have woven family treasures with the original architecture to make a place both unusual and instantly comfortable.Replacement China Porcelain tile and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide. Japanese pieces mix with Mexican pieces. Modernist, minimalist chairs designed by Harry Bertoia for Knoll fit comfortably with the exuberantly decorative tiles by the pool. Hollywood photos mingle with folk art.
Edwards, a rabbi, and Moore, who is retired, have painted the walls with enthusiastic colors - orange, red and blue - mirroring the attitude these two women bring to a house full of books and art. When Moore is showing a visitor around, Edwards warns that her wife could talk about the house all day.
Their home is one of six stops on a Nov. 6 Los Angeles Conservancy tour to show off three Historic Preservation Overlay Zones: Wilshire Park, Country Club Park and Windsor Village.
The first house in the agricultural area that became Wilshire Park was built in 1907, and within two decades nearly every lot was developed - in Craftsman, Dutch Colonial Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival and other styles - as people sought homes away from but convenient to the city center.
The neighborhood, just south of Wilshire Boulevard about five miles west of downtown, was home to wealthy people as well as residents who bought "cute little colonials," said Robby O'Donnell, a former neighborhood association president who worked hard to get the HPOZ established.
The original occupants of Moore and Edwards' four-bedroom house were Polish immigrants, the second Jewish family on the block, a couple who owned a shop in Boyle Heights, Moore said. The architect isn't known, but the house, also home to six children, was built with just one bathroom.
"We want to really showcase historic houses, especially in Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, as being historic and yet really current with today's time," said Linda Dishman, executive director of the conservancy. "That house shows a great respect for history but a very strong current of the owners' personality and their love of color."
The way Moore and Edwards live in their Spanish Colonial Revival illustrates "how homes that are historical don't have to look like museums," O'Donnell said.
"My mother was an interior decorator - not by vocation. She would walk into people's houses and rearrange things. A lot of people asked her to do it,Demand for allergy kidney stone could rise earlier than normal this year." Edwards said.
When the couple saw the house, there was no doubt: They walked in, picked up the phone and began the process of making the house their home, Moore said.
The process continues. Just a few weeks before the tour, roofers were at work on the multicolored concrete tiles. Swatches of paint in greens and grays could be seen all over the stucco exterior as they decided on just the right shade.
Steps beyond the front door, past the huge coral tree that takes up nearly half the yard, the blending of times and places begins in the living room, with its 14-foot barrel ceiling, original crown molding and what they believe is an authentic Batchelder tile fireplace.
"One of the requirements was that it be able to hold my family rug," Moore said.
The red and blue Oriental-style rug was made in the early 20th century and belonged first to Moore's cousin's grandparents, then the cousin, and then Moore's parents before it came to her. When she and Edwards lived in New York City, they had only enough space to partially unroll it on the floor.
Over the mantel hangs a portrait of Virginia Woolf by California-born artist Anne Hoenig,By Alex Lippa Close-up of plastic card in Massachusetts. and on the mantel sits a large bowl, collected on one of the couple's trips to Oaxaca, Mexico. On another wall is a 1962 George Barris photograph of Marilyn Monroe, bucking the sex goddess stereotype in a large-weave sweater.
"We are not big fans of Marilyn Monroe, but I just loved that photograph," Moore said.
Two long cushy white couches flank an enormous ottoman, covered in kilim - a piece Edwards calls the "Ottoman empire."
One of Edwards' favorite spots is the doorway between the living and dining rooms. Four panels of glass doors cleverly and elegantly fold as they open and close.
"I instantly loved them, but I didn't get the whole design of them until we moved in," she said.
Edwards, 59, and Moore, 68, also have lived in Iowa City, Jerusalem and Brooklyn, and some possessions are equally well-traveled, including the Ivers & Pond piano.
Moving often provides stories, and the piano has one. Edwards and Moore arrived in New York on a Friday, and their movers tried to get the piano to their second-floor apartment. They could not. And so they unloaded it on the street, leaving Moore and Edwards to assume they'd take turns guarding it all night long.
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