Mad Mod Home

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Mad Mod Home
36 Reviews

Highland Park Project

Guiding our design of a hip Highland Park bungalow was the idea of indoor-outdoor living. The original house was a mere 450 square feet until our client, a flipster (hipster house flipper in Eastside L.A.) got ahold of it and worked his signature magic. It’s now 1,300 square feet of beautiful, with tall pitched ceilings, a fully sliding patio door opening to a deck that’s really more of an outdoor room, and acacia hardwood floors throughout. We staged the place in two days, putting our hearts and souls into it — along with some of our best Mid Century modern pieces. Now it feels ready for a lucky person or couple to put their own stamp on.
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A vintage modern dresser fits neatly into a hallway alcove. Atop it we put an array of colorful glass vases from different eras.
Mid Century Modern Dresser with Glass Vase Display
The eucalyptus log table was a last-minute find at an Eagle Rock vintage shop (one of our fave sources). As we were leaving the store, we spotted the log in the back. The owner sold it to us for $35! A little conditioning treatment oil was all it took to bring out the luster of the wood. We...
Log Table on Casters
We brought in IKEA’s MELLTORP table and paired it with red Tolix chairs and an Eames molded plastic dowel-leg chair. Along the wall, we created a banquette with a vintage church pew. Above, a wall of vintage African plateau baskets. We love the way the Eames molded chair breaks up the line of...
Basket Wall in Dining Room
A dark brown sofa with clean modern lines, a flokati rug and an MCM coffee table. The Plycraft (Eames-style) lounge chair and ottoman cozy up to a glassed-in corner atop a kilim rug and share space with IKEA’s KULLA floor lamp and a log side table.
Eames-Era Plycraft Lounge Chair and Kilim Rug
Another bedroom is treated to a fresh white bed with a bold graphic pillow and black lamp on a vintage tripod table. We painted the Swiss Army cross symbol on a large canvas.
Swiss Army Cross Symbol DIY Canvas
Red, yellow, black and white repeat throughout the room. The tripod table is Mid Century vintage.
Mid Century Tripod Table and Modern Lamp
A bedroom is turned into an office/guest room, complete with MCM desk found at a vintage furniture shop in Echo Park, an old desk lamp, a bentwood chair that we covered with flokati and a vintage Heathkit radio. USGS topographic maps are rolled up in an orange wire basket.
Mid Century Modern Desk with Flokati Upholstered Bentwood Chair
A bedroom is turned into an office/guest room, complete with MCM desk found at a vintage furniture shop in Echo Park, an old desk lamp, a bentwood chair that we covered with flokati and a vintage Heathkit radio. USGS topographic maps are rolled up in an orange wire basket.
Vintage Modern Desk with Radio, Vintage Desk Lamp, Books
The master bedroom is a soft mix of muted and bright reds, black, white and warm yellow. We found the Cayenne pedestal side table at Crate and Barrel and the kilim rug on craigslist. The lamps are vintage.
Bold Graphic Pattern in Red Bedroom
The main hallway with a view to the huge sliding glass patio doors and outdoor deck.
Art on Walls and View to Outdoor Deck
Getting the 10-foot high dollar tree (ficus triangularis) into our van was interesting, to say the least. We had to wedge the pot into the space between the front seats and it took two of us to release the emergency brake! While we were staging, a bird flew into the room and took up temporary...
Dollar Tree (ficus triangularis) in Mid Century Modern Room
On view as you enter the main living area is a small hallway, where we placed an MCM dresser (found on craigslist!). Atop it, a multi-colored vintage hand-blown glass vase display and a starburst mirror.
Mid Century Modern Hallway Dresser
We brought in IKEA’s MELLTORP table and paired it with red Tolix chairs and an Eames molded plastic dowel-leg chair.
Tolix Chairs and Eames Molded Plastic Chair with IKEA White Table
The back deck is plenty large enough for IKEA’s FALSTER outdoor table and a set of four vintage chrome cantilever chairs found at a vintage shop. We call the blue accent color on door of the finished garage “Hipster Blue” because of its prevalence in Eastside LA flip house remodels. Both the house...
Modern Chrome Cantilever Deck Chairs with IKEA Table
We brought in IKEA’s MELLTORP table and paired it with red Tolix chairs and an Eames molded plastic dowel-leg chair. We love the way the white chair breaks up the line of Tolix chairs.
White Eames Dowel-Leg Chair with Red Tolix Chairs
We styled a vintage modern table with graphic book covers, a Scandinavian print on canvas and a glove mold.
Mid Century Modern Table with Books
Blue glass tiles in a random pattern that resembles a pixelated world map. We accented the room with rolled-up white hotel-style towels in an antique Chinese water bucket and a Picasso print on the wall.
Blue Tile Bathroom
The master bath’s green glass tile, chevron pattern rug and woven basket with rolled white towels and one Turkish towel as an accent.
Green Tile Bathroom with Chevron Pattern Bath Rug and Turkish Towel
A lounge chair’s-eye view of the living room. The vintage Eames-style lounge chair and ottoman -- with their aged leather -- need no more than a RENS sheepskin throw from IKEA for snuggling and a kilim rug underfoot.
Plycraft (Eames style) Lounge Chair and Kilim Rug
Along the dining room wall, we created a banquette with a vintage church pew. Above, a wall of vintage African plateau baskets. Fair trade African plateau baskets are made by women of the Covanya cooperative in Rwanda.
African Plateau Basket Wall
A coffee-cup’s eye view toward the glass-wall corner and Plycraft (Eames-style) lounge chair.
Plycraft (Eames style) Lounge Chair and Ottoman
The kitchen’s flat front Italian style cabinetry plays off the warm acacia wood floor and butcher block counter tops. A manzanita branch, black accents and simple bar accessories on display.
Modern White Cabinets and Acacia Wood Floor
A vintage lighted Michelob beer sign in the kitchen. Orange plates on a chalkboard tray below. The apron front farm sink features an articulated handle faucet.
Vintage Beer Sign and Modern Accessories
A 1950s ashtray holds a collection of vintage matchbooks neatly atop a stack of books, including The Art of the Bar.
Vintage Matchbook Collection Bar Display
We put a frame cluster above a daybed with chenille cover in the home office/guest room. In the foreground, a graphic Pantone book opens to a colorful page.
Pantone Book on Desk and Frame Cluster of Vintage Prints
A rope bundle atop a stack of books in the office.
Rope Bundle Atop Stack of Books
We styled a vintage modern table with graphic book covers, a Scandinavian print on canvas and a glove mold.
Mid Century Modern Table Display
A coffee cup on a Mid Century modern coffee table. In the background, a Scandinavian modern style pillow.
Mid Century Modern Style
The powder room gets some needed storage in the form of an IKEA LACK unit filled with folded white towels and African artifacts. The cat photo is from the 1970s.
Simple Clean White Bathroom with Storage
The powder room gets some needed storage in the form of an IKEA LACK unit filled with folded white towels and African artifacts.
Bathroom Storage by IKEA
Polished chrome faucet in a powder room. A glass container holds liquid soap.
Polished Chrome Faucet
A bedroom is turned into an office/guest room, complete with MCM desk found at a vintage furniture shop in Echo Park, an old desk lamp, vintage books, an articulating hand and a vintage Heathkit radio.
Vintage Modern Office Desk Display
A vintage Plycraft (Eames style) lounge chair and ottoman with a view to the back deck with a set of vintage chrome cantilever chairs around IKEA's FALSTER outdoor table, illustrating the indoors-out and outdoors-in design philosophy of this home.
Bringing the Outdoors Inside
On view as you enter the main living area is a small hallway, where we placed an MCM dresser (found on craigslist!). Atop it, a multi-colored vintage hand-blown glass vase display and a starburst mirror.
Mid Century Modern Entry
On view as you enter the main living area is a small hallway, where we placed an MCM dresser (found on craigslist!). Atop it, a multi-colored vintage hand-blown glass vase display and a starburst mirror. In the background, the red Tolix chairs of the dining room.
Mid Century Modern Entry with Dresser
Vintage glassware atop a Mid Century modern dresser in an entry way. A starburst mirror caps off the display.
Mid Century Modern Style Decor
A eucalyptus log with a small stack of Dwell magazines and a modernist sculpture next to the sofa.
Log Side Table with Sculpture
Outdoor IKEA FALSTER table and vintage cantilever chairs on the deck. Photo courtesy of Extraordinary Real Estate
Mid Century Modern Home
Ocean blue tile in a pattern reminiscent of a pixelated world map. An antique Chinese water bucket holds fluffy hotel towels. Photo courtesy of Extraordinary Real Estate
Mid Century Modern Home
A Mid Century modern dresser in a hallway with vintage glass vases atop it. In the background, a Plycraft (Eames style) lounge chair, vintage coffee table and flokati rug. Photo courtesy of Extraordinary Real Estate
Mid Century Modern Home
Living room in Mid Century modern style as seen from dining area with red Tolix chairs and white IKEA MELLTORP table. Photo courtesy of Extraordinary Real Estate
Mid Century Modern Home
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Bathroom with Vibrant Blue Tile
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Modern Kitchen with Butcher Block Counters
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Vintage Global Modern Living/Dining Room with Kilim Rug
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Modern Master Bedroom with Kilim Rug
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Outdoor Modern Deck
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Hip Highland Park Living Room in Global Modern Style with Ficus Tree
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Hip Living Room in Global Modern Style with Ficus Tree
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Hip Deck Space in Los Angeles
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Hip Designer Kitchen with Butcher Block Counter Tops and White Cabinetry
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Modern Hallway with B&W Framed Photos and Basket Art
We brought in IKEA’s MELLTORP table and paired it with red Tolix chairs and an Eames molded plastic dowel-leg chair. Along the wall, we created a banquette with a vintage church pew. Above, a wall of vintage African plateau baskets. We love the way the Eames molded chair breaks up the line of Tolix...
Church Pew as Bench Seating