This Airy Bungalow Reno Got a Last-Minute Dose of Oxblood Drama in the Kitchen
Photo by: Charlotte Lea
Artist Jenna Rainey is drawn to color. So it might come as a surprise that the three-bedroom property she and her husband, John, recently bought on a tree-lined street in Southern California started out as a million different shades of flipper’s gray. But they had a different picture in mind. When they first came across the home, the Raineys were enamored with the seemingly bygone setting of kids playing in the street as parents looked on and socialized. They imagined themselves doing the same one day, and felt confident that the 1950s property could eventually encapsulate their creativity and closeness. It was just going to take a while before any of that could happen. “The original vision we had was to rip apart the whole house and make it larger,” says the couple’s designer, Jen Mac Beth, owner and creative director of California Casa Interiors.
Phase one of the project was reimagining the studio and guesthouse, situated behind their main address, but once that was finished, Mac Beth and the couple accepted that their total-gut aspirations up front were probably too ambitious. “We decided a smaller interior remodel would be the best fit for them at this point of their lives,” Mac Beth continues. “I knew a pared-down footprint would still be amazing, because they were open to incorporating beautiful materials like marble and white oak.”
