Featured article in the May 2018 San Diego Home and Garden Magazine.
David McCullough of McCullough Landscape Architecture Inc. creates Mediterranean look to complement client’s Greek island-inspired architecture…”simple but sophisticated.
Seeking a beach home as a vacation retreat from the Phoenix heat, Canadian born Joe and Marjorie Davies (names changed for privacy) looked at more than 100 San Diego houses, but what they found disappointed them. They opted for a contemporary “city house” in La Jolla’s village, but never gave up their original idea of a beach house, where they could enjoy ocean breezes and entertain friends and family, including their two children and two young grandchildren.
One day, while walking towards La Jolla Shores, they found a coastal contemporary home they admired, just a short walk from the beach.
“It was the first house that checked all our boxes, but it was in terrible disrepair,” Joe says.
“We liked the architecture, design and layout, with the living room, dining room, master bedroom, kitchen and view decks on the main level and four bedrooms downstairs for family and guests. We thought the people who designed it thought a lot like us.”
They decided to make minor modifications to the original design, created by the late La Jolla architect Stuart Baesel, while gutting the 4,800-square-foot house. They planned to restore its structural integrity and bring it up to date with a seismic retrofit and modern energy-efficient plumbing, electrical, mechanical and entertainment systems.
Read the entire article here.
