6036 S Corning Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90056

The Corning House. In a neighborhood where the best homes rarely reach the market, 6036 S. Corning is a true one-of-one: a mid-century ranch in Lower Ladera Heights, remodeled top to bottom in 2023 with high-end materials, thoughtfully elevated by its owners since, and one of the very few homes in Ladera Heights proper with a legal, permitted ADU. Floating concrete steps rise through a sculptural garden of agave, columnar cactus and palms, washed in landscape lighting after dark, to a quiet, light-filled interior of wide-plank white oak floors, hand-troweled plaster and white oak slat screens beneath skylit ceilings. The floor plan is the home's great gift: living, dining and kitchen sit at the center as one open space and open through walls of black-framed glass to the pool, while the bedrooms are set apart down their own hall for privacy. Every main room faces the backyard, so the outdoors is part of every moment. The kitchen, the heart of the home, centers on a newly redesigned...