For one reimaging of a 1960s property, bland has been avoided at all costs, in favor of eccentric individualism.
Kitchen revealed how she didn't want to adopt the current trend of subtle, soft minimalism."I wasn't looking for a cool mid-century house in the Hollywood Hills, with exquisitely tasteful interiors," she said."I didn't want a house that looks like everyone else's."
In the kitchen, lozenge-shaped skylights mirror the kitchen islands below, which are topped in emerald quartzite.The team tried to imagine what the house might have looked like if it had"really exceptional period architecture," according to Hefner. This meant working within the original footprint, flattening its pitched roof and adding corner windows and modern eaves.
Mary Kitchen's three daughters photographed sitting by the pool on the front cover of Architectural Digest's July/ August issue.Tulip-patterned wallpaper and fabric dominates the bedrooms of Kitchen's three young daughters -- albeit in different color pallets. In one of the rooms, the pink, green and white floral pattern covers the walls, curtains, bedsheets and even the bed frame.