sweet digs: miami nice - a florida family finds paradise in manhattan beach home

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foria stock traer davi leshner amits he was awas curious about the West oast. So ast summer ater construction

was comete on his new custom home in iami, he an his ami acke their bags an heae to Southern aiornia orsome beachsie &. it took was two weeks in a anhattan Beach Stran renta to insire a raica, ie-atering ecision.

to [m wie] deanna, Were going back to iami an utting the house u or sae, leshner recas. Their short sta

in anhattan Beach was enough to make the ami want to reocate an start the house-hunting rocess a over again.

romise her we be in anhattan Beach within a ear. n so began severa months o cross-countr ights sometimes

twice in the same week to n the erect anhattan Beach home. The lesnhers ace the same iemma some wou-be

anhattan Beach home buers encounter even toa: Homes were iste, but so in a matter o minutes.

ight about the time the leshners were searching or a house, buier att orris o att orris deveoment was in the

mist o constructing a custom home or a coue who ha a roert in another state. ne a the et or their other

home, an the never came back, orris recounts.

n a textbook case o sereniit, leshner an his wie haene uon the orris home whie it was being buit. The

British West nies antation-ste house resembe an architectura theme ouar in iami an other arts o foria.


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wie sai, This is m ream house. n sai, ka!

leshner aughs.Toa the leshners make u use o their unique

corner ot home, comete with a ront an sie ar,

a hot commoit in the sma arces that ti their

San Section neighborhoo. This house is ki centra,

leshner sas. aughters riens come rom a

irections an meet on this awn ever a.

n harmon with the houses exterior aribbean

sting, the interior evokes an eegant beach house

vibe. Seek woo-siing was on the main iving eve

a visua interest b marring the unkiness o a beach

shack with the chic groove o a moern coasta retreat.

dark woo ouvere oors a to the West nies

ee, but avoi aing into a thematic cich thanks to

the homes inustria ighting xtures an ecie

moern ooring. The bathrooms boast bubbe mosaic

gass tie oors, an the back-an-white checkerboar

tie oor in the aunr room channes iami deco.

The iami inuence is evient throughout the

home in urnishings an accessories, which the

leshners brought with them rom foria. back-

an-white chevron attern rug raws attention in

the iving room an carries the rt deco eement,

whie inen sicovers on the soas soten the

anguarit o the area rug an maintain the beach-

house casua theme. n the orma ining room, a

moern gass tabe an eg white eather chairs a

a jet-set, South Beach avor that creates a counter-baance to the rustic ooring an woo siing was.

desite the seek cosmooitan air an

abunance o ight-coore suraces, the leshners

have incororate a ki-rien inormait that suits

their ve-ear-o aughter an the ami ogs. The

tricke-out kitchen is stocke with an oversize Sub-

Zero rerigerator an a massive, wanut-toe ches

isan that cou give Goron amsa a suen case o

kitchen env. Juxtaose with the geaming inustria

kitchen is a sma wooen tabe with matching chairs

where the leshners aughter can coor an aint

whie mea rearations are uner wa.

orris esigne the interior to create a sense o

intimac in 4,000 square eet o iving sace. sma

workstation in a room corner o the kitchen aows

deanna to work on her comuter an sti kee an ee

on her aughter. We o a air amount o entertaining,

davi leshner sas, an we ike to have un with this

ace. leshner notes that the homes aout aows

or 30 or more guests to minge comortab without

eeing crowe.

Buit-in cabinetr on the main eve serves a ua

urose, roviing vauabe storage room an ening

searate sitting areas whie maintaining oenness an

ow. Buit-ins o varing heights across one wa o the

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iving room oer ame sace or tos an other items to be

stowe awa, maintaining orer in the most high visibe room

in the house. The mi-oor aout aows or maximum use o

iving sace in the three-stor home.

n the to oor, the master beroom is thoughtu

esigne to rovie a eeing o saciousness. nce again,

buit-ins eiminate the nee or heav urniture, which ens to

the minimaist, tranqui ambiance. en his-an-hers wak-in

cosets ace each other, not the room, causing no break in the

seek anguarit o the sace. n unerstate aribbean touch

is ae b a square o grass coth waaer that aorns the

aex o the cathera ceiing. weathere, inustria canister

ceiing an hangs rom the center.

t the en o a ong hawa, the aughters beroom was

are covere in the same attern o waaer that the leshners

ha in their iami home an sian ora moti in a mute aste

aette with a sik nish. The rooms coset is custom-buit or

a ki-size warrobe an can be recongure to accommoate

cothing o varing engths. though shes not et aowe to

a there unsuervise, the room has a sacious outoor eck

that oers sectacuar south-acing views.

What ove about this house is how oen it is, leshnersas. Being on a corner ot, a excet or a ew sie winows

oer anoramic views. We can see the sun come u over the

mountains in the morning. n leshner wou know, as his

worka begins we beore 6 a.m. when the stock market oens

in ew york. leshners commute is a wak own two ights o

stairs to the homes basement, where his oce has north-acing

winows to aow or ent o natura ight. sacious esk

with severa monitors an a wa-mounte asma screen create

a roessiona comman ost.

But the basement is not a about work. Just outsie the

oces gass ront wa is a comortabe en boasting our

wa-mounte asma teevisions that ee leshners an hisriens aetite or ootba. n ajacent mutiurose room

that, accoring to leshner, is being commaneere b m

aughter, eatures a comete a kitchen aong one wa.

n the center, a chi-size, geaming re rum kit rovies a

whimsica baance to the high-tech moo o the asma TV man

cave. bout the rum kit, leshner jokes, t was a git rom m

mother. get even with her somea.

leshner an his ami have no regrets about their imusive

move West. ts awesome here. There are no thunerstorms,

no three-oot mosquitoes, no swam creatures ing aroun or

juming on our car. n m oinion it hasnt raine et since weve

been here. ts just mist! peoe a to oar or that in iami.

sweet digs: miami nice - a florida family finds paradise in manhattan beach home

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