Property of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henley | Pacific Palisades, California | Architect P.H. Bevis

Driving down Temecula Street in the Pacific Palisades, your eyes are sure to be drawn to the quaint charm and loveliness of the little Henley cottage. Like a production in technicolor, it demonstrates how landscaping can be combined with carefully chosen house paint to achieve an almost fairyland mood. Walls are of dusty rose, trim of frosty white, and the surrounding planting has been done in complementary colors. There's dusty miller, interspersed with purple lobelia, flanking the red-brick walk that leads to the front door. This doorway has the simplicity and directness of line found in better examples of Greek Revival architecture. The door itself is recessed, thus giving a strong shadow accent to the front elevation. Pink and red geraniums grow profusely in a window box and, planted beneath, are clusters of shasta daisies and dwarf boxwood. A large, many-paned bay window adds just the right amount of asymmetry to the street side of the house and displays to advantage the owner's collection of old milk glass.