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"It's been fun putting the project together because it's
such a nice piece of architecture," says tradesman and
developer Kent McKeown. "is is the quality of a house
you would see on the Strand or a walk street." He's talking
about a new, view-packed Modernist home he erected
along a hillside of 7th Street in Hermosa Beach, just
east of Pacific Coast Highway. e home is the aesthetic
partner to another home he's built directly behind it on
the double lot, with a separate entrance on 8th Street.
For the project McKeown, a South Bay native and shoring
contractor (he owns KLM Engineering), enlisted home
designer Daryl Olesinski, whose striking residences are
increasingly popping up throughout the Beach Cities and
Palos Verdes. Olesinski designed both homes in tandem
with Martina Linden, his wife and partner at their design-
build firm, O+ L Building Projects. "We work together
on everything," Olesinski explains. "ere isn't a decision
that's made that I don't bounce off her, and there's not a
decision she makes that's not bounced off me."
"It just had to be right," says McKeown of the project.
It's the true tradesman's reflex to execute every detail at
the highest level, and his was strong on this undertaking.
McKeown acted as general contractor and, in addition to
O+ L, for interiors, he brought in West Holly wood 's Paul
L'Esperance, whose work can be seen in a slew of high-
profile commercial projects, from Greystone Mansion to
the Egyptian eatre, as well as a portfolio of showcase
homes throughout the Beach Cities and Los Angeles. A
