MANSION GLOBAL - Designers Who Sold Blackpink’s Lisa Her New L.A. House List Latest Reno Project for $5.5 Million

The design-duo House of Rolison transformed a 1950s Bel-Air home with a church-like great room into a sophisticated but playful modern residence

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For their latest projects, design-duo House of Rolison transformed a “charismatic” mid-century Bel-Air home with a church-like great room into a sophisticated but playful modern residence. The four-bedroom home is now on the market for $5.5 million.

Taylor Hahn and Amanda Leigh, the founders and managing partners of Rolison, purchased the estate on Roscomare Road for $3.1 million in 2021. Built in 1950, the one-level home was drab and outdated, and the challenge was to reveal its soul, the designers said.

“The house already has so much character,” Leigh said. “There are so many things that have so much charisma and so much draw to them on their own.”

House of Rolison revamps aging homes throughout Los Angeles that attract a celebrity clientele, including K-pop star Lisa from Blackpink, who purchased a 100-year-old house in Beverly Hills that the designers restored earlier this year.

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For the Roscomare Road home, the designers went for an aesthetic that combines mid-century flair with a measure of gravitas, starting from the brown-black exterior, to the dramatic great room, and a blend of wood, glass and exposed brick for the interior. “The house already draws so much mid-century that we really wanted to have more of a grounding factor and a little bit more intensity to it,” Leigh said.

One of the main features that drew them to the home was the double-height great room with vaulted beamed ceilings that contrasts with the flatness of the rest of the home. The front wall includes window panels flanking a brick floor-to-ceiling fireplace.

One space that required a rethink was a sitting room with exposed-brick arches that now serves as a lounge with cigar room-like undertones. Another was the primary bathroom, which features a unique vaulted ceiling of its own, with lighted amber glass panels.

Prior to the restoration, the amber panels looked dingy when combined with a Gothic chandelier and wood paneling. So Rolison installed lights behind the glass ceiling, redid the molding, and added wavy handles and fluted stone along a marble counter. “It adds a bit of playfulness and modernization to what otherwise could be read as old,” Hahn said.

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“We’re really into movement in solid materials right now,” added Leigh. “Using things that are generally supposed to be structured, and trying to make them look like they have movement.”

One final area that required an overhaul was the backyard with a wavy pool at its center, now lined with a checkered pattern of colored limestone tiles along the wall. “People are obsessed with the checkers, which I was surprised by,” Leigh said. “We were a little nervous to do it.”

The 1.7-acre property first came to market last month with Farrah Brittany, a real estate agent with the Agency, who is also a cast member on “Buying Beverly Hills” and previously worked with Rolison on the home that Lisa bought.

Leigh and Hahn, who are also partners, purchased the home alongside an investment group and secured a $3.5 million construction loan to fund the reconstruction of the property. They have several more homes in the works, including two that will be coming to market this quarter, they said.

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