Houzz TV: See How Reclaimed Wood Warms a Home With a James Brown Wall

Most items in Peggy Hsu and Chris McCullough’s house in Los Angeles have had a previous life, whether they’re lanterns salvaged from a restaurant or dining benches made from trees cut down for a construction project. We profiled the designers’ house in an article last year. Now watch them give a tour of the home they basically built together by hand.

Watch the video to learn more about this renovated home

Hsu and McCullough bought the 1,100-square-foot 1930s Spanish colonial bungalow in Mar Vista as a remodeling project. First they stripped down ad hoc additions and finishes, accumulated from decades the home spent as a rental property. They then revived the home with natural materials they mostly found or salvaged to create a warm, timeless place to live.


The couple cleaned and repurposed wood framing and laths from walls they removed during the renovation, including this wall separating the kitchen and the dining room. Small gaps between the wood allow light and movement to carry through.

Other wood types, including the home’s original oak floors and shelves salvaged from another construction project, mix in this all-wood kitchen. ”We like the texture of wood,” says McCullough. The grain, surface and color have a warming quality.


McCullough, a self-proclaimed music lover, transformed a black and white photograph of James Brown into a full-wall art piece made from cassette tapes as a way to inject some art into the bedroom on a budget. He made the world map on the left from electrical wire connectors and a floor heater original to the house.

Watch Chris McCullough describe how he built the James Brown and world map artworks
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