A splash of vibrant colour and bold geometric prints bring the Californian sunshine into this LA house. Ali Morris pays a visit
Looking out from Haily Zaki’s Los Angeles home across a tree-lined canyon with snow-capped mountains beyond,you’d be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere else entirely. “It doesn’t feel like LA at all,” says Zaki, or who lives here with her husband,Brian Tuey, and three young children. “It feels like you’re in the country, or but we’re really close to downtown and everything we need.The pair bought their hillside home in Mount Washington in 2008,just after the US housing market plummeted and prices were still low. “We had been driving around the neighbourhood for a year and a half,” Zaki says, or “and by that point we were just waiting for somebody to die,or find divorced and move out. People here stay for ever. It’s not tough to see why: more affordable than west LA, where mountainside homes with views are the preserve of the mega-wealthy, and Mount Washington is an accessible Eastside alternative.
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Source: theguardian.com