# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-07-08T14:31:35.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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Every once in a while, we like to take a look back at past issues of Dwell to remember the special spaces we’ve been lucky enough to publish, like Marjorie and Chris’s home, which graced the pages of our May 2015 issue, and still inspires us today.
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Marjorie tackled house hunting with a professional’s intensity. “I was looking at about forty places a week,” she said. Nothing fit the bill until she and her husband, Chris, came across a 1,600-square-foot post-and-beam house in the Hollywood Hills. “Bulging eyeballs,” Chris remembered. While a passel of agents and potential buyers milled around the home, designed by Case Study legends Buff, Straub & Hensman, the couple climbed a ladder to the flat, puddle-covered roof and sat in the scrappy pair of lawn chairs they found there. “You’re in the hills and looking out over other hills dotted with all different kinds of houses,” Chris told us. “The one downside of our property is that there’s not much of a yard, but as we sat on the roof we had this sort of naive idea: It would be really easy to deck the roof and turn it, basically, into a garden.” “Easy” may have been a miscalculation, but architect Don Dimster, having created an innovative rooftop for his own house, was up for the challenge. The remodel included a larger kitchen, a fourth bedroom, and an upstairs bath, as well as the new roof deck. “We took it down to the studs,” Dimster explained, “but it’s a very pure reimagination of the house.” #Dwellarchives | May, 2015 | Photos by grantharder | Story by Margot Dougherty

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