Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) is home to a signature style. It’s being celebrated in home renovations, house flipping and staging all over the eastern area that spans from Eagle Rock in the north to Echo Park in the south. We staged a home recently in Atwater, an area central to NELA and dear to the hearts of all Eastside-loving residents. Atwater boasts a village ambiance with its walkable Atwater Village featuring a string of shops and restaurants, a weekly Farmers’ Market and ridiculously easy access to all major traffic arteries, given its location between the 5 and the 2 freeways.

We started with an empty house. But what a cute empty house it was. Original hardwood floors. Paneling in the dining room. A breakfast nook complete with banquette seating. All it needed was a little wake-up with Mid Century modern furnishings and a palette based on CMYK.