" Now how long have you been on the property here?"

" I've been here almost 15 years. Yeah."

" Well, the house that you've built and remodeled, it's really evolved, right? Over the course of the year?"

" Yeah. It was that little center structure was the beginning."

" Yeah."

" And I got into fixing it up and making circles starting with that [unk]."

" That's what I was gonna ask you. How did you get into building all these circular rooms?"

" Well, at the time, I was very involved with American ambiance. Still am, but it was new to me, and."

" Yeah."

" And I was living in a teepee right over here."

" Where did you live?"

" I got a little gypsy wagon down there for when it was really wet."

" You had real teepee?"

" Yeah."

" I would spend all day on a sound stage, so I really loved sleeping outside and being outside, and then, the circle is really the central metaphor of Indian, you know, spirituality, so."

" I guess I really couldn't get interested in making any."

" Straight lines."

" Like many houses, straight lines."

" Yeah."

" That's where the first thing I did these with."

" They're circle."

" Plan."

" But they're really like flowers, aren't they?"

" They're like a sunflower. That was our idea of it."

" Sure. And it's redwood?"

" And redwood? Yeah. It's due to get cleaned off again every."

" But what a spot."

" Couple of years."

" To just relax and see the Pacific and the dim-dims, huh?"

" And that's a neat idea where the dog is lying down. You've got outdoor carpeting in the center of the sunflower."

" Yeah. Our dogs love to get right where."

" Right in the way."

" You don't want to be. Yeah. So here's and your biggest fan."

" Hi, Nan."

" My wife, Nan."

" Oh, my God. Max told me you were gonna bring someone home. I didn't know it was you. Come on in."

" Thank you. How are you?"

" Fine."

" So this is terrific. It's really a pleasure to be able to wander through your house today."

" Oh, it's our pleasure."

" I see that you've repeat the circular form and arches everywhere here."

" Yeah. Same thing. This and there."

" [unk]."

" Yeah. [unk]."

" What about the ceiling? That looks like an antique stained glass panel."

" It's an old stained glass panel from Denver, Colorado."

" Well, there are few others that we got from the house there."

" The ceiling details, the way the wood is led into, the rafters, is very unusual. It looks kind of like arts and crafts. Tell me about that."

" Well, the guy at LinkedIn up with, David Ramsingh, did help me take it over there."

" Do the work?"

" Well, he started all cuts above me as a carpenter and."

" Yeah."

" This is his design and I think David had a nice eye."

" It works nicely. Where should we start the tour?"

" Let's start in the bathroom."

" California tub. I love the color of the ceramic tiles in here."

" As a matter of fact, the tiles are from a small company at Venice, California."

" And the accent pieces are actual reproduction from the Malibu Tile Company."

" The Malibu Potteries."

" Yeah. Malibu Potteries."

" They're beautiful. Now it's unusual to have a big bathroom like this right up the front hall."

" Yeah. Well, this is where the bathroom was when there was only one bathroom here, you know."

" And that."

" Works out like a big family bathroom."

" I see."

" You need a setup for kids."

" Sure."

" And the kitchen's right over here."

" That makes a lot of sense. And a lot of your stub-out lavatories in here."

" It's very pretty. What's through the courtyard? "

" Well, through the courtyard is the children's playroom."

" So really, this is just kind of a circular flow and it works well with kids."

" Right."

" This is terrific."

" Kids' room."

" I really like the idea of, you know, the indoor outdoor. The kids can be playing in here. They could swing right out into the courtyard. "

" California living. Yeah?"

" Yes. That's it."

" Max, I don't think there's a square room anywhere in your house."

" I haven't found one yet."

" What's through here?"

" The grown up's room."

" This is great with all the wood. What kind of wood is it on the floor?"

" That's koa. That's a tropical hardwood."

" Koa. And it has the color variation, huh?"

" Yeah. Yeah. It's a beautiful wood. It makes a lot of."

" Where's it from?"

" Instruments out of it. South America and some grows in Hawaii."

" I like the way it's laid on the diagonal in the room."

" And probably environmentally, we'd think twice about using the."

" Nowadays, but you probably."

" I could afford to do it."

" Alright. Alright. What about the ceiling? It's also a wooden ceiling."

" Yeah. This is pine and I don't know if you see there's a slight arch to it. We did try to break that long low 'cause we'd get a low ceiling."

" Yeah. Again, you can't stand having a straight line on this, right?"

" No. No."

" Hey. This is a beautiful table. It's California redwood."

" Yeah. You know that's from up in Big Surf."

" That could be a thousand-year old slab, right?"

" It's beautiful."

" So this room is of nice size. It's got to be at least 30 feet."

" About that."

" Yeah. And how about the fireplace here? Did you build this?"

" Yeah. Built that with this friend and we did most of the housework."

" Where do you get stone like this?"

" They're lay off in the riverbed here and some down near the beaches and."

" So you've gathered them yourselves?"

" Yeah. Yeah."

" That's wonderful. There so many personal touches in your houses. That's really terrific. How about a dining room? Is there a dining room?"

" Yeah."

" But we never use it."

" Right across the hall."

" Oh, the round room."

" Yeah."

" You know, these terracotta floors that you see all over California are really great."

" Yeah."

" Yeah, it's a great tiling."

" From Mexico, right?"

" Yes, they are."

" Yeah. Very easy to live with?"

" Absolutely."

" Okay. So this is the dining room and, of course, here we got the kids doing their homework."

" Yes. Jolanda and India."

" Hi, kids."

" Hi. Hi."

" How are you?"

" Good."

" This is a fine, fine room. It's kind of like being in a turret."

" Yeah."

" Right down there is the corner of the."

" This one is the corner of the house right here, and so we just."

" Before you."

" Opened it up and."

" Before you remodeled."

" Yeah."

" This was where it ended right."

" Yeah."

" At this corner?"

" Yeah. So rather than having to be in a corner and change channel."

" Yeah."

" You just do it this way and then we can."

" Oh, it makes such a wonderful difference to have all these little windows and to have the view of the ocean down there."

" And what it needed was a round table? So Nan made me one."

" Is that right?"

" Yeah. She made this."

" Yes."

" You made this table?"

" Yes. 3 days."

" That's pretty impressive."

" Yeah."

" Solid oak."

" Oak."

" Yeah."

" White oak."