It took a little more than six years for real estate developer Rob Hussey to realize his dream house. His eponymous Brentwood company had built more than 300 homes up and down the state, “but this was the first house I’d ever built for myself,” says Hussey. “For years, I’ve been collecting ideas trying to imagine every detail of what I would put into my own home.”
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Nature Calling
Designed by Melinda Gray and Rob Hussey
When he first viewed the Santa Monica Canyon property, Hussey, an avid outdoorsman, became enamored with a 100-year-old oak tree on the land. Today, the tree’s sculptural branches, as well as a landscape of bamboo, wild grasses and climbing honeysuckle vine, soften the rigid geometry of the steel-frame home.
