Labor of Love

Manhattan Beach designer Jill Johnson tells us how she remade a rental mess into her dream cottage, one room at a time.

 

White cottage kitchen with marble countertop and wicker barstools
Photographer Grey Crawford

Minor Renovation 

CL: Oh, the transformative power of white paint! So what specifically did "a little work" entail?

JJ: For our first round of renovations, we started with the kitchen and bath. By the time we had raised the ceiling in what was then the living room, I thought, "I could live here after all―but I'm going to have to redo the whole thing."

 

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Before the kitchen renovation.

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Before exterior renovation

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White cottage kitchen with marble countertop and wicker barstools

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