Architect Aaron Neubert’s cozy<br> indoor-outdoor family home in Silver Lake

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It’s always interesting to see what architects design for themselves or, in Aaron Neubert’s case, his family. Although being his own architect was a ‘conflicted’ process, his goal remained consistent: creating an open living environment that connected to the outdoors at every opportunity.

To make the interiors of his Silver Lake home feel larger, Neubert organized the spaces around what he calls a “vertical pinwheel” central stairwell, shown in the photograph above. “This allows all the rooms to open to each other with almost no hallway circulation,” he says. The stairs also work as a screen, differentiating rooms in an otherwise open space.

Here, Neubert romps with Checkers outside the third-floor master bedroom while wife Stacy Horth-Neubert, son Penn, 4, and daughter Quinn, 7, hang out below. For two years, while juggling work for clients, he constructed an open yet cozy family home in which every room is connected to the landscape outside. “It’s all about the yard,’ he says. ‘I wanted the kids to have a jungle.”

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-- Lisa Boone