By: Audrey Davidow, Special to The Los Angeles Times
April 21, 2005
When his Venice bungalow overflowed with stuff, Peter Schroff asked his architect to serve as psychologist and create a structure to help him reform. The result? A cube with no place for clutter.
A Tale OF TWO HOUSES - BUDGET LIVING
By: Audrey Davidow
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROGER DAVIES
When his JAM-PACKED COTTAGE IN Venice, CALIFORNIA REACHED MAXIMUM CAPACITY, Peter Schroff DECIDED TO DITCH THE KITSCH AND START ANEW. HOW? BY BUILDING A MINIMALIST RETREAT IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.
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a box to redefine one’s life, this owner asked that we do everything that his old bungalow couldn’t... with a budget so small that we almost turned this job away, we were left intrigued at many levels and developed a solution that rigorously and selectively directed the limited resources in the most pragmatic manner possible to solve, but not skimp on, all of the basics... light, air, view, space, simplicity.
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