Budget Breakdown: A 1960s A-Frame Gets a $558K Refresh—and Historic Landmark Status
Photo by Ye Rin Mok
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, when most public places were strictly off-limits, Amy Dantzler, an accomplished open-water swimmer, and her wife, Julie Anderson, got in the habit of taking early-morning trips from their home in the Hollywood Hills to L.A.’s South Bay. "Amy would get up at 4:00 a.m. and drive to Manhattan Beach because all the pools were closed," Julie says. "Sometimes I’d join her to run on the sand. One morning I turned to her and said, ‘Why don’t we buy a house down here?’"
Amy, a real estate agent, liked the idea a lot—so much that she floated it by Bryan Libit, an architect and interior designer who frequently joins her for a swim.
"We were walking back to the car from the beach one day and saw a For Sale sign from the street," he remembers.
