"Were it not for the view of the Los Angeles skyline through the living room windows, the Italianate house of interior designer Jed Lind and Jessica de Ruiter could easily be mistaken for a Montecito villa. A stately place like this, with its formal bones and towering junipers, is a rare event in Silver Lake, where the couple have been fixtures in the creative community for two decades."
"After getting his master's in fine arts from Cal Arts, Lind cut his teeth as part of the Commune team of the aughts before launching Jed Lind Interiors. His wife, a former fashion editor and stylist, is known for her meticulous but unpretentious sensibility. They're bright and beautiful, love gardening and hiking, and have put down deep roots in the neighborhood, first living in a small bungalow and later a midcentury house."
"Then they discovered this 1937 residence, perched on a flat double lot atop a hill, with a proper pool and significant untapped potential. "After our daughter was born, we would go on walks in the evening and pass by this house and wonder what was going down," de Ruiter recalls of the property, originally designed by architect C. Raimond Johnson but by then, by Lind's telling, "pretty run down.""
Jed Lind and Jessica de Ruiter bought and restored a 1937 Italianate house in Silver Lake, situated on a flat double lot with a pool and Los Angeles skyline views. The house's formal bones, towering junipers, and Montecito-villa character distinguished it from typical neighborhood bungalows. Lind brought a fine-arts and interior design background; de Ruiter contributed fashion-editing and styling sensibility. The property originally felt run down and presented challenges like a T-shaped plan and steep driveway. The couple approached the renovation intuitively, reconfiguring spaces and cultivating gardens to make the home practical and elegant for family life.
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