Elevating Spaces
DESIGNER JOHN MCCLAIN TRANSFORMS A NEW-BUILD CALIFORNIA HOME INTO HIS PERSONAL PARADISE, USING NEW SURFACE MATERIALS AND HIS OWN SENSE OF COLORFUL ORDER
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BY JENNIFER WILLIAMS PHOTOS BY ZEKE RUELAS
fter spending more than half of the pandemic living and working in a 940-square foot condo with his family, John McClain realized he needed more space to do it all. So the creative director and CEO of John McClain Design began looking for a space with multifunctional potential that checked important boxes: more space, more design potential, and a home where he could incorporate his eponymous design office. “I took it as my opportunity to design, feature, and showcase my love of lux materials and undiluted design vision,” he says. “It was a place where I could really bring my vision to life.” After months of searching, McClain found a series of new homes that were being built by a Los Angeles builder in the San Fernando Valley suburb of North Hollywood. The all-too-common cookie cutter interiors did not faze McClain, who looked past the sameness and saw the opportunity to put his design stamp on a larger home that checked all the boxes. “It was too good to pass up,” he says. McClain loved the first level of the four-level home, with its separate entrance that easily could be converted
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