We wake up to the sound of hammering and screw guns as construction workers Sheetrock the new entry way Artsy Grandma designed for her house. 

The new foyer will house her unique and personal collection of paintings, prints, photos, and sculpture. It should be a bold and exuberant welcome to her home.

Bang. Bang. Bang. The men work quickly Sheetrocking over the fiberglass batting insulation making the room look more and more like a room and less like a construction site.

The construction scaffolding gives the high ceilinged room the look of a church, with it’s beautiful sky lights and small glass brick windows on one side.
This house is being continually worked on. What do you expect from a woman who has architecture in her veins and in her genes?  Hepcat’s grandmother, the seventh female architect in the state of California to get an architect’s license, designed the original house as a wedding cottage for her daughter more than 50 years ago.

Hepcat grew up in the small house. But in the years since, his mother, taking over the mantle of house architect, has continually and artfully added on. The house is large and rambling and there are rooms built around a Mediterranean style courtyard. But now the house is stretching out in new directions…

AG uses basic materials like galvanized metal and glass brick and designs with natural light in mind. Light pours in from all directions in this house and brings the outside—and the plethora of luscious gardens—in.
Building. Creating anew. There is optimisim and joy in that.

Especially when the contractor, a thoughtful and careful hard working man with wizard like beard, shows up every day. The building should be done soon. Probably by Chirstmas it will be filled with AG’s hand selected treasures.