As seen on TV: Ryan Brown of ‘Flipping Out’ puts down roots
Designer Ryan Brown has a fan and friend of ARTO for many years now. Recently his home was featured in the Los Angeles Times along with the ARTO Roman Pavers in Early Gray that make up his garden path and pool coping.
(Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)
Interior designer Ryan Brown, known as the voice of reason on the Bravo reality series “Flipping Out,” has made a living buying ugly duckling properties, turning them into beauties and selling them for profit. But as fans of “Flipping Out” know, Brown and his domestic partner, chef Dale Monchamp, had a daughter through a surrogate and wanted to put down roots. Two years ago they bought a 1942 two-story stucco house in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles
The yard was relandscaped to include a mosaic tile pool, an organic vegetable garden and a lawn with a concrete paver path from Arto Brick in Gardena. With extensive changes inside and out, the tab for renovations came to about $700,000. “I did it as inexpensively as possible to use the materials I wanted,” Brown says, adding that without his industry sources the cost would have run $1 million.
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