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Home Tour: An Echo Park house pretty as a picture frame

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Every once in a while (or all the time), we feature a house that makes me ache with envy. This home in Echo Park, which belongs to Jonathan Williams and Kim Pesenti, is one of them — possibly because its relative modesty makes it feel accessible.

Home writer Lisa Boone explains that the couple kept its footprint to 1,700 square feet in order to encroach as little as possible on the outdoor space. Working with architect Rachel Allen, they played up the home’s proximity to nature by packing the house full of windows that frame the outdoors. Dreamy!

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Another neat element of the house: The shadows in the picture above are not from a towering oak, but from laser-cut plywood. (You can see the cutouts resting on the skylights.) Williams designed the plywood cutouts from photographs he took of oak trees on a family property in Santa Barbara.

Click here for the photo gallery, click here for the full story, and/or go see the house for yourself: It will be part of the Dwell on Design exhibition’s home tours June 27. Tickets are $75 and include admission to the exhibition June 27 and 28 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Tickets must be purchased by June 24. Information: http://www.dwellondesign.com.

— Deborah Netburn

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