We have been so charmed by Michael Breland and Peter Harper’s Spanish courtyard challenge in Silver Lake, Los Angeles (see Julie’s publish about it right here), we’ve been visiting and revisiting their web site for inspiration ever since. Their work is ethereal, easy, and refreshingly trend-averse. Inquiring minds wish to know: How do they obtain a timeless design? We reached out for his or her ideas.

“Restraint and high quality are tenets we hold returning to, deeply etched into who we attempt to be as designers,” says Harper. “For us, a timeless house is a house that’s of its place—of its neighborhood, metropolis, or panorama. It is also one which invokes historical past but additionally acknowledges its time and the proclivities of its epoch. We’ve discovered that timelessness would possibly extra conveniently be pursued if the work is constructed with high quality, metered by restraint—it’s tough to scream and stay related or lasting.”

Beneath, they expound on their design philosophy typically—and in particular, their work on this minimalist bungalow in Frog City, accomplished in 2013 and nonetheless very a lot interesting and contemporary a dozen years later.

Pictures by Jessie Thurston and Ted Lovett, courtesy of Breland-Harper.