Green, hiding in plain sight

The terracotta kitchen and cream living room fool you. Adi Goodrich and Sean Pecknold are really green people: a moss bathroom, an olive music room, a laurel front door, natives wrapping the lot.

“We wanted it to be flooded with color”

A house with its charm removed

They found the 1912 place in Hermon in 2022, a sliver of a neighborhood between the 110 and Monterey Hills. Previous owners had traded its character for gray paint, can lights and ruined floors.

Sell the A-frame, start over

The trade was their 1962 Big Bear A-frame for a house they could design line by line. New hardscaping out back and a four-car garage sealed it.

A garage that became a workplace

That four-car garage now holds a studio, a wood shop and office space for a few employees. Goodrich builds every piece of her furniture and decor line in there.

They hired out the renovation

Both would rather spend the day making things, so they handed the plans to contractors who had built Goodrich's Wine and Eggs storefront. Floors redone, walls moved, new kitchen in.

One off-white holds it together

Several rooms got Benjamin Moore's Muslin, a warm off-white. It works as the anchor that lets the saturated rooms elsewhere in the house go as far as they want.

Terracotta cabinets, cherry accents

Dusty terracotta cabinetry grounds a terrazzo backsplash made from discounted floor tiles cut down to size, plus cherry wood keyed to the patina of Charlotte Perriand's furniture.

“It's not an obvious choice for a kitchen, but it works”

A chef's table, not an island

The center of the kitchen is a table instead of an island. It is where the family eats and drinks coffee, which an island would never have been.

The awkward pocket became a retreat

Off the dining table sat a strange leftover space. Walls and ceiling in Sherwin Williams Paradise turned it into Pecknold's record room.

“That's the whole point of it, to listen to a record and zone out”

Art they made themselves

Above the living room sofa hangs leftover muslin from slow-motion videos they shot for Fleet Foxes' 2017 tour. Goodrich reupholstered the Eames lounger nearby while pregnant.

A muddy yellow nursery

Their son Eero's room is a slightly murky yellow, a tone with tension that still reads as a neutral he can grow into. The furniture stays grown-up, apart from the crib.

“Maybe we're living life in a good, proper way as designers and artists raising a kid”

Airport tile, done well

Both bathrooms lean on Daltile, the stuff of campgrounds and airports. Cornsilk 4-by-4s, deadstock Japanese mosaics and French speckled floor squares add up to something far richer than the budget.

“Not everything in the room has to be expensive”

Green out every window

The yard was bare decomposed granite when they arrived. They pulled up a concrete slab and driveway for red buckwheat, deer grass, apricot mallow, white sage and olive trees.

“Our home is where we feel the most comfortable, but where we feel alive is the studio”