Family Ranch Los Angeles
![Horse walking along trail, stairs leading to second level](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/1-2-1600x1067.jpeg)
At the edge of a secluded valley, Family Ranch accommodates an ensemble of structures that spread out across those transitional contours where hillside blends with canyon floor. At the stop of the site, accessed via a long, serpentine drive, a stable and ranch house face each other across a luxuriantly planted courtyard. While the modestly scaled two-story main dwelling is sited along the edge of the level pad, the stables burrow into the hillside, below a show jumping ring.
Exquisitely detailed in sandstone, silvered ipe, parchment-hued plaster and bronze patina’d steel, the home and outbuildings have a rich, natural palette.
![Small pond in front of stables](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2-4.jpeg)
![Horses walking along a trail, in front of the stables](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/3-4-1600x1067.jpeg)
![Trees in front of horse stables](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/4-4-1600x1069.jpeg)
"The Ranch enjoys views but is not designed around them. The architecture celebrates the intimacy of small, human-scaled spaces."
![Ring for horse jumping](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/5-2-1600x1067.jpeg)
![Horse eating hay in stable](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/6-3.jpeg)
![Closet in Stable](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/12-3.jpeg)
![Balcony](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/8-3-1600x1067.jpeg)
![Fireplace](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11-3.jpeg)
![Living area](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/10-4-1600x1067.jpeg)
Like many large properties, the Ranch was built over time. Situated close to the canyon’s floor, the Ranch’s second phase comprises a small barn and a guest house that doubles as an artist’s studio. While the ipe-clad structures preserve the material palette of the earlier buildings, each was subtly influenced by Japanese vernacular architecture.
![Dining table on patio](https://www.kovac.studio/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/7-3-1600x1200.jpeg)
Interior Design
Molly Isaaksen
Photography
Jeremy Bittermann