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Before the Pool or the Planting: What a Beverly Hills Hillside Lot Actually Requires First
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Exterior Design · Hillside Properties Point Of Design Studio brings a licensed geotechnical engineer and a structural engineer onto every hillside project as trade partners, as part of its A-to-Z design and construction process. The geotechnical, structural, and code-specific claims in this
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Motor Court and Gated Entry Design in Los Angeles: What the Arrival Sequence Has to Solve First
Point Of Design Studio · Journal By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director · Point Of Design Studio, Beverly Hills Most homeowners plan the front door last of all: after the kitchen layout is set, after the primary suite is drawn, after the pool is sited. The gate, the driveway, and the motor court get treated as
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Eclectic Interior Design in a Los Angeles Home: How to Mix Styles Without the Clutter
Point of Design Studio · Design Notes · By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director It is a pattern that shows up often in early design meetings around Los Angeles. A homeowner spreads out a mood board with a Bergère chair inherited from a parent, a chunky postwar Italian console found at auction, and a set of
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The Residential Architect Design Process in Los Angeles, Phase by Phase
A custom home in Los Angeles rarely begins with a contractor and a shovel. It begins with a set of drawings, a route through a specific plan-check department, and a professional whose scope of practice is defined narrower than most first-time clients expect. Before a wall gets framed, a residential architect and a client typically
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A Whole-Home Renovation Guide to Trousdale Estates
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Trousdale Estates gets described online mostly through the houses that are already finished: glass walls, a pool cantilevered over the basin, a listing photographed at dusk. What gets skipped is the part that actually determines whether a renovation in this neighborhood goes
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Luxury ADU Design in Los Angeles: An Architect’s Guide
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Most conversations about an accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles start the same way: a homeowner has an empty rectangle of backyard, a budget, and a catalog of standard plans to choose from. That conversation makes sense on a raw lot. It
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Renovating a Hillside Home in the Hollywood Hills: Why the Soils Report Comes First
On a flat lot in Beverly Hills, a renovation more or less runs in order: design the plan, submit it for permit, build what was drawn. On a sloped lot in the Hollywood Hills, that order breaks down. The ground has to be understood, tested, and cleared before the floor plan can be treated as
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Custom Home Theater Design in Los Angeles: The Room Decides Before the Gear Does
Search “custom home theater design Los Angeles” and the results follow a familiar pattern. Nearly every top-ranking page opens with a photo of a component rack, a speaker package, or a screen-size comparison chart. The company selling the room is usually the same company selling the electronics inside it, and the pitch starts with a
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Wine Cellar and Home Bar Design in Los Angeles: One Entertaining Suite, Engineered as Architecture
POINT OF DESIGN STUDIO About Services Residential Contact Architectural Design · Los Angeles By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio A client will often ask for two things in the same breath: a wine cellar and a bar. It sounds like two separate line items, one climate-controlled room and one entertaining fixture, the
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What Actually Drives the Cost of a Primary Suite Renovation in Beverly Hills
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Interior Design · Primary Suites This guide reflects Point Of Design Studio’s in-house architectural design process, led by Creative Director Nina Avetisova (18+ years in residential design, 7 of them in Europe and 11 in the US), developed in coordination with the