There are some beautiful homes that are beautiful because they were built by a skilled architect; others thanks to interiors crafted by a hired decorator. And then there are the beautiful homes that became beautiful because of the vision of those who lived there.

In the latter camp falls the Venice, California home of Kendall and Ben Knox. It’s a 1914 Craftsman home constructed just as Los Angeles began to sprawl: in the 1920s, the then-burgeoning film industry set up shop in the Southern California city due to the weather, abundance of land, and cheap labor. Yet while mansions arose in Beverly Hills and chateaus on Sunset Boulevard, the Knoxes believe that some young couple ordered a mail order home from a Sears Catalogue that they assembled themselves. Over a century later, Kendall an

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