New Beverly Hills House by Palumbo Design is the Best Yet

Sneak Peak: The Story of 1201 Laurel Way

A Redesign of a New Beverly Hills House

By Palumbo Design - Set to be Best Yet

Even though Palumbo Design has been designing and building quality upscale homes in the Los Angeles basin for thirty years, it does not mean his work cannot exceed his experience in the next project and that is what is happening on the latest Beverly Hills home he is designing and building at 1201 Laurel Way. 

"It has been a few years since we have seen a high end spec house like this in a while", says Mike Palumbo of Palumbo Design. “One design challenge is that part of the house had to remain, so we had to work with the bones of the house.” Mike and the architect were forced to redesign the house that sits on a peninsula around the perimeters. 

“There were a lot of view restrictions because the city has a view ordinance and because we can’t block the neighbors, but it is actually a perfect place to build a house.”

This house will be a monument to structure, form, architecture and design because of the Beverly Hills home building requirements alone that the designer and architect are forced to adhere to, according to Palumbo. “This will be one of the best built houses we have ever done.”

Location is one of the most beautiful advantages of the property north of sunset but not the only one. The house is also using all the latest energy saving technology and part of that also coincides with an increase in square footage to the home. Palumbo and his team were able to increase the floor ratio of the house, which includes the guesthouse, by creating flat areas of the property in building a 300-foot infinity mote that will be around the entire house. There is no other house in Beverly Hills that has a mote going around 90% of the house using super thassos glass A.K.A. crystallized glass or minicrystal. It is pure recycled glass in pure white and does not stain. Very few people can install this beautiful glass provided by Soli direct from the quarry, it takes a special technician.

This white thassos and chocolate wenge will be the threaded theme throughout the house. The chocolate Wenge (weng-gay) is a tropical timber, very dark in color with a distinctive figure and a strong partridge wood pattern. The wood is heavy and hard. These two products alone that Mike chose for the design in the house will be a striking contrast while providing the indoor-outdoor feel that was blocking the terrific views the old house had on the peninsula.