Check out the build of this beautiful contemporary, Spanish style home. This is new construction from the ground up. The old small house was removed to build this one.
Gut Remodel Historic Spanish Style Home n Santa Monica
This beautiful 1915, Spanish style home in Santa Monica, California, had beautiful bones but was woefully underbuilt – especially by today’s standards. Watch as the entire house is gutted to the studs – and even half of those were rotten – and built into a fabulous new home.
This project actually includes new construction – a pool house – as well as the gut remodel of the main house.
Santa Monica Spanish Gut Remodel
Rebuilt new entry
Out with the old
A “Gut” remodel/restoration of a turn of the Century Spanish revival home located in Santa Monica.
The house was completely stripped to the “good” studs and rebuilt from the inside out. As is the case in Los Angeles,
rebuilding a home and bringing it up to current building code standard, requires building from the inside out. New foundations,
framing and mechanical systems create a new home.
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Remodel/restoration of Spanish revival home
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New pool house and custom pool with fountain
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Complete “Chef’s style” kitchen
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Unique open beamed ceiling
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Moroccan tile
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Plaster ceiling molding
Parts and pieces – the front gate and custom wrought iron.
Landscaping with large specimen trees being craned onto the site.
Spanish Style – Wallace Neff – Ojai ICF New Construction
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Custom home on Ojai’s east end
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Traditional “Wallace Neff” Spanish style home
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Green Building – Built with Rastra Block
With the roof, stucco and driveway complete, only the finish landscape is missing!
Stucco Brown Coat
Roof tile detail
Window detail – custom tile sill with deep set aluminum clad window
Plaster walls
Porch roof – exposed framing
Groin vault in entry – note Techsheild radiant plywood
and planter cut outs in wall.
Roof framing over Rastra block
Rastra Block topped out and framing commences!
Window rough
Rastra block installation
South side – front entry on the left
Garage slab ready
Raising level of courtyard
With the floor system in – we move up another 4 blocks and prepare to cut out windows and doors. After these blocks are
grouted – only one more lift to the roof.
Walls above the floor framing
Rastra Technician with the “Rastra Lift o Matic 5000”
Front entry
Floor joists and plumbing goes in.
Attaching the floor ledger and getting ready for wood.
Looking from garage towards living room – Rastra walls
Looking from bedrooms – Rastra walls
Looking from living room towards garage – Rastra walls
Rastra block arrives – a concrete/post consumer waste styrofoam block
that will provide 12″ thick highly insulated, fireproof, rot proof walls!
Setting the footings
Filling it back up!
Re compaction of the new soil for a solid base.
Importing fill
Excavators, 10 wheelers, water trucks, loaders, bob tails !
Digging out all the rocks!
Dueling excavators
Big rocks !
This is the property before grading!