Loft Styles
Photos by Eileen RingwaldStudio at a GlanceWho uses it: Juana GuevaraLocation: Ojai, CaliforniaSize: 400 square feet (37 square meters)Designer: Vina Lustado, owner of Sol Haus DesignWith the help of designer Vina Lustado and woodworker Ian Graham, Guevara transformed her dark 1926 garage into a studio space filled with light, textures and color. It’s here that she paints and creates her encaustic art and mixed-media works. In the building of Guevara’s studio, everything except two structural beams was upcycled or reclaimed and given new life.
“What I like most is all the light and the ability to open the studio up to the outside,” Guevara says. “I have many days when my studio has butterflies and birds flying through the space.”Glass folding doors open wide at the studio’s entrance from the home’s backyard. To increase the ceiling height, the roof was raised to 12 feet at its highest point. Its gentle slope allows for water runoff. The exterior got new stucco and the entire studio has denim insulation in the ceiling and walls.
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