# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZNWtqekbrs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66278029-dwellmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-05T15:08:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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A few years ago, Amy Dantzler, an accomplished open-water swimmer, and her wife, Julie Anderson, got in the habit of taking early-morning trips from their home in the Hollywood Hills to L.A.’s South Bay. “Amy would get up at 4:00 a.m. and drive to Manhattan Beach because all the pools were closed,” Julie says, reflecting on the early days of the Covid pandemic. “Sometimes I’d join her to run on the sand. One morning I turned to her and said, ‘Why don’t we buy a house down here?” Amy, a real estate agent, liked the idea a lot—so much that she floated it by Bryan Libit, an architect and interior designer from go_sml who frequently joins her for a swim. “We were walking back to the car from the beach one day and saw a For Sale sign from the street,” he remembers. The property had stood there since 1964, its clean-lined, A-frame structure the epitome of midcentury cool. But sometime in the intervening decades, it had been turned into an unpermitted rental duplex. Nevertheless, Amy knew that other A-frames in the area were being demolished for larger homes, and she and Julie liked the idea of preserving the past. By the time the $558K, 17-month project came to a close, Amy and Julie had registered their home as a historic landmark and moved in full-time. “I love that we were able to keep this A-frame in the community,” says Julie. “I love watching kids ride their bikes to the beach. And, of course, I love being close to the ocean.” See the couple’s full #BudgetBreakdown at the link in our bio.
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Photos by yerinmok
Story by kellydawsonwrites

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