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TMCNet: High ceilings and high tech in La Canada home

[September 04, 2010]

High ceilings and high tech in La Canada home

Sep 04, 2010 (Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- When plaintiff's attorney Shawn Khorrami moved his family into their La Canada Flintridge home, he was struck by its grandeur.

The 6,000-square-foot Georgian Colonial-style home, with high ceilings, comfortable common areas and a spacious yard, had character to spare -- but it called for high style.

So he asked his sister, Woodland Hills-based interior designer Firoozeh Khorrami of Design Schematic, to create a sophisticated, but tech-friendly space befitting the structure's "good bones." Another requirement was that the house be an extension of his L.A.-based law firm, Khorrami, Pollard & Abir, as well as a place where the family -- he has two daughters, ages 12 and 18 -- could entertain.


Was it difficult to work with her brother? "Different is more like it," says the soft-spoken designer with a chuckle, as she leads the way through the now-completed renovation.

With its rich-colored walls, new furnishings and architectural elements such as marble fireplaces and built-ins, the elegant two-story home -- to be featured in the Pasadena Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers' 24th Annual Home & Kitchen Tour on Oct. 3 -- is a well-appointed center where mixing business and pleasure is part of the day to day.

"Firoozeh has made it really hard for me to ever want to leave here," says the 41-year-old homeowner, looking dapper in a dark three-piece suit as elegant as his surroundings.

Among the standouts is what used to be the sixth bedroom and is now a formal study.

"The previous owners wanted to preserve this as a bedroom and it made no sense as a bedroom," Shawn says, adding that he was equally puzzled by the placement of a full bathroom just outside the door. "It was totally inappropriate." The bathroom is now a proper powder room, with chocolate-colored walls and gold fixtures.

To create the look of the study, the white space was paneled in rich, dark wood with a coffered ceiling, with built-in bookcases, a hidden closet and a sunk-in flat-screen TV that doubles as the fourth computer screen to finish it off.

The house is filled with large-screen TVs (except for the sitting room at the top of the stairs). Docking stations and chargers are hidden in furniture throughout -- from the upstairs master bedroom to the backyard cabana -- making the entire estate function as a home office.

"I could be working on any computer in the house and it's as if I was sitting in the office," Shawn says. "And if I'm at the office working on the laptop, and I don't feel like transferring it, I can just bring it home and pop it onto the docking station and it will put whatever is on my laptop on any screen in the house.

"I can even go sit in the Jacuzzi and there's a computer that will come up there," he adds. "So I'm always connected to the office." Wiring the house for the latest technology was "a lot of work," Firoozeh says. "But it's a common in higher-end homes. I'm even starting to see it make its way into the do-it-yourself market." At her brother's house, every room is equipped with remotes and control panels on walls (even the floor by the hot tub) for programming lights, satellite radio and TVs inside and out.

Stepping into the spacious kitchen/great room, Shawn demonstrates one such switch, which can turn on surround sound for movie watching or light up certain sections of the room, including the casual dining and food prep areas.

The kitchen was unchanged for the most part except for new appliances. And it was enhanced by a new red wine cellar and cigar humidor in what was a pantry.

White wines are kept directly across from the cellar in small refrigerators. Larger refrigerators are found down a wing of the house, with all of the bottles inventoried and their locations tracked by computer.

While walking down that wing, Shawn stops to single out some framed sketches that his 12-year-old daughter made while planning the backyard renovation. There's a cabana with a TV, a pool with rocks around the edges and a hot tub with a waterslide.

The pictures are sandwiched by the actual plans of the yard drawn up by the landscape architect.

"He copied everything because when he came over here, he spent more time with her than I spent with him," Shawn says, chuckling as he looks at the drawings. "She designed the outside." About all that wasn't changed in the backyard were the oak trees, which provide a canopy over the new formal garden with dry riverbeds winding along opposite sides of the pool.

Water from the spa tumbles over rocks into the pool, which features a Baja bench inlaid with leaf tiles and Shawn's monogrammed initials.

Dragonflies zip around the surface of the pool. In fact, the backyard attracts a range of wildlife, including parrots and rabbits. It's also self-sufficient for when his daughter's friends are over for a swim.

"I don't want them running inside the house all wet so we had a bathroom built here," Shawn says, opening up a door under the cabana to reveal a modern bathroom.

The bar area includes a refrigerator stocked with drinks.

"We have virtually everything here but a bedroom," he says. "Although those lounges over there are pretty comfortable and they very easily can fit two people." A different set of cushions for all of the outdoor furniture, and towels, are kept in a storage area around the corner from the bar for guests. And yes, there have been a lot of parties here since the remodel was completed in March 2009.

"It was very agonizing for me because I don't have any patience," Shawn says. "I wanted it done. I wouldn't let the guys not work for any reason." "Not even when it rained," his sister laughs, adding, "We put scaffolding on the pool so they could put the tile down and put plastic on top of the cabana." "No excuses," Shawn says. "Get it done." Pasadena ASID Home & Kitchen Tour 2010 What: A self-guided tour through four architecturally distinct homes, circa 1941 to 2000, in Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Marino and La Ca ada Flintridge.

When: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3.

Tickets: $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the tour. Call 800-237-2634 or 626-795-6898.

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