I feel so terribly conventional, sitting in my wood-frame house. From West Coast Woman To Build Crash Pad Out of an Old 747:
Unusual homes are nothing new along the coast of Southern California, long a magnet for eccentrics and free spirits. The ‘cyclotron house’ in Malibu is shaped like an atom smasher. The ‘eyeball house’ in Woodland Hills is a wooden silo with four giant glass eyes affixed to it. The ‘Chemosphere’ looks like a flying saucer perched on a toothpick at the edge of a cliff in the Hollywood Hills.Ms. Rehwald, whose family founded the first Mercedes-Benz dealership in southern California, is intent on adding to the genre. She has reserved a junked jet to purchase, charmed local planning officials and spent $200,000 on consultants.