SECOND CHANCES

This Santa Monica Mountain home managed to survive two tragedies abandonment and fire-only to emerge more beautiful than ever.

- Hadley Mendelsohn

POOL PATIO

“Views of the Santa Monica Mountains dominate the horizon,” designer Tammy Randall Wood says of her family’s backyard vista. Tables: Formations. Chair: Four Hands. Tile: Saltillo from Mexico. Pillows and throws: Shoppe Amber Interiors.

LIVING ROOM

Wood was inspired by the idea of a caravansary, “a roadside inn where travelers would rest and recover, from the day’s journey along routes like the Silk Road.” Chairs: Wicker Works, with Rose Tarlow fabric. Coffee table: vintage. Tray: Made Goods. Sculpture: Picasso. Pendant: Formations. Tile: Walker Zanger.

WILD CARDS RUN IN THE FAMILY.

RAISED BY A SECOND-GENERATION Hollywood stunt man, Tammy Randall Wood fell in love with set design early in life. “I wanted to be involved in the creation of spaces because they really do help us tell our stories,” says Wood, who, newly married, went into interior design rather than film so she didn’t have to move on location for every new project. “We manifest the story of our lives.”

Where others saw an abandoned eight-bedroom money pit, Wood saw potential. “I always have huge visions, and everyone around me shakes their head,” she explains. “We refurbished the gardens with beautiful olive trees, redid the floors, and ripped out the kitchen. It was featured on a magazine cover—and then the 2018 Woolsey fire destroyed most of it five months later.”