Dwell on Design: Eastside Home Tours, Part 2

Yesterday we shared our photos of three of the house tours we checked out on Saturday on LA's east side. Today, we're sharing the other two homes we saw on the east side, including the Baxter Home which was memorable not only because of the house itself but because we destroyed our car's clutch trying to find it...

The Baxter house is set on a high hill in Silverlake and we mean high. Not just "where La Cienaga meets Sunset" high but "Holy Moly San Francisco, what is that burning rubber smell?" (Old School Note: we drive a stick shift). Coupled with the fact that we got lost finding the home (IPhone maps are fallible) and we've now lost our car to the mechanic for a few days. Was it worth it?

Check out the slideshow and see for yourself!

The Work House: A live-work house designed and built by Urban Operations Studio founder John Southern, the small footprint of the house belies its spacious interior feeling.
The Baxter House: A stunning marriage of exterior and interior space constructed on a previously built foundation and already permitted square footage and set on a sharply angled street, the house balances the human need for both intimacy and space.

Coming up tomorrow: Westside Homes, Part 1

Comments (5)

Both nice houses.

Sorry to hear you burned up the ol' clutch, hope you weren't riding it as you made the climb up or down or was it about to go to begin with? :-)

Having driven clutches and having repairs done to 'em, I feel your pain.

posted by ciddyguy on June 30th 2009 at 2:50pm
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Nice homes, love that pool.

Sorry to hear of the clutch situation, hope you weren't riding the clutch descending or ascending those steep hills, or was it about to go to begin with?

Having driven manual transmissioned cars for the past 18 years and having had some clutch work done, I feel your pain.

posted by ciddyguy on June 30th 2009 at 2:53pm
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i live right below the baxter house on apex and i'm always curious about that house! thanks for posting the photos.

posted by michelle on June 30th 2009 at 3:24pm
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It's a pain trying to provide trash service up in those hills with so narrow streets.

posted by BruinToo on June 30th 2009 at 7:57pm
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Source, please, for the chairs on 1st floor patio, as well as the wall birds in 2nd bedroom?

posted by alstonz on August 4th 2009 at 5:55pm
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