Here we are! I had made the genius decision to go for a run before meeting up with this gorgeous group of girls and thus looked totally hot and bloated (hey, it was like 97 degrees), but the house was very cool and so were the girls! It was so great to finally meet the ladies behind LOVING/LIVING/SMALL, my little apartment, ATLA, At Home At Home, (me over heated), and Simply Magic.
But enough about us, let's talk about this house!
The living room. Amazing. Very simple, and yet we all had the same feeling upon entering ~ that we wanted to just move right in! The open, light space was so well designed. Our sweet tour guides pointed out all the little details, and gave us the scoop behind the house. I'd share them all with you, but you should really go visit yourself! For $10 you get a great little history lesson, and learn a lot about the psychology of architecture.
This was the real reason I loved the living room so much - the adjacent patio with small reflecting pool. Adorable! This is where California modern got its style!
Here's a little view from the patio outside the kitchen - it looks onto the courtyard where the huge trees provide lots of shade.
And then there's the 'penthouse'...
The perfect spot for relaxing and entertaining, the penthouse is surrounded with windows (making it extra hot on this day) and lined with padded backrests that tempted us to all take a seat and enjoy the view...
Apparently at the time the house was built, if you sat and checked out this view, the roof line would line up with the water from the reservoir. Since then, however, the reflecting pool on the roof has had to be drained (it was causing water damage) and the reservoir has been moved back to it's current location ~ a bit further from the house.
After the tour, we headed to Malo in Silverlake where we did a little blogging gossip and enjoyed some seriously yummy Mojitos!
Of course, I loved the flocked wallpaper and dark walls. In typical blogger style, we all had our cameras out! I look forward to the next LA meetup, and hope that more of you will join us in the future! In the meantime, please consider visiting the Neutra home yourself. The space is in need of serious maintenence and the Cal Poly Pamona Foundation is in danger of losing the space as an educational resource without our help! You can read more about it right here.
