The living room opens to both the kitchen and the garden, with a 9' wide La Cantina connecting indoors and out. As the front door is adjacent to the accordion door, the door was built to open in instead of the usual out (the tables and plant are relocated when the door is in use--a trade the occupants are willing to make). A vaulted ceiling gives the room presence. The owner is California born and raised, and her love of the state and the coast is evident in the Plein Air seascapes collection.