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Photo: Lisa Romerein (styled by Liz Strong).
From:
HGTV Magazine.
From Average to Amazing
Not many home buyers would purchase a bland 1959 ranch house and reconceive it into a rustic farmhouse, woodsy sleepaway camp, and salty surf shack. But Raili and Ryan Clasen saw past the cramped interiors and low ceilings of the Newport Beach, CA, house they bought in 2013 and envisioned something ultracool. Teaming with architect Eric Olsen and landscape designer Bridget Skinner, they embarked upon a gut reno, preserving the footprint but changing everything else—from the pitch of the roof to the location of the walls.