If you consider Southern California one big neighborhood, then the designers and architects listed below have been recommended by neighbors. And these neighbors were so pleased with their remodels that they wanted to see them, and their architect or designer, featured in the Los Angeles Times, in my "Pardon Our Dust" series. That’s a pretty good recommendation.
• Dennis Thompson, AIA, Thompson-Naylor Architects (Santa Barbara) Project
• Kip Kelly, AIA, Nest Architecture Culver City) Project
• Hartman Baldwin DesignBuild (Claremont)
• Built (Los Angeles) Project
• Apurva Pande and Chinmaya Misra, Chacol (Los Angeles)
• Richard Finkel, AIA, Bundy Finkel Architects (Santa Ana Heights)
• Wheeler & Wheeler Architects (Claremont)
• Bradco Kitchens and Baths (Los Angeles)
• Carter Bravmann, InterFORM (Los Angeles)
• Payson Denney Architects (Santa Monica and Santa Fe, N.M.)
• Everardo H. Garcia (Pasadena)
• Design Build Classics (Signal Hill)
• Rex Hoover, AIA, Hoover Architectural Group (Long Beach)
• Dale Bergerson AIA (Woodland Hills)
• George Denton, Denton & Associates (Santa Fe Springs)
• Studio C Architecture and Construction (Studio City)
• KAA Design Group (Los Angeles) Project
• Bruce Tomb (San Francisco) Project
Interior Design
• Kathy Good, Good Advice Design (Los Angeles)
• Heidi Toll Design (Los Angeles)
• Angela Beach, Beachwood Designs (Sherman Oaks) Project
• Christopher Grubb, Arch-Interiors Design Group (Beverly Hills)
• Judith Wilson Interior Design Group (Sherman Oaks)
• Sue LaCabe Interior Design (Santa Barbara)
• Timme Gunderlock, Timme G. Design (Manhattan Beach).
• Kitchen Studio Naples (Long Beach)
Landscape Design
• Gayle Martin, California Landscapes (Los Angeles)
• Flower to the People (Los Angeles) Project
Plus, architects and designers whose work has been pictured on this blog:
• Ray Kappe Architects (Pacific Palisades) Project
• Living Homes (Santa Monica) Project
• Robert Nebolon (Berkeley)
• De Maria Design Associates (Manhattan Beach) Project
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