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Land Before Time

“It’s almost as though you peeled up the grass on the hilltop and put it back down on the roof.”
DAN WEBER, ARCHITECT

Margaret Cegelski’s new guesthouse north of Santa Barbara might be momentarily confused. Their quarters are hidden from sight, tucked under the lip of a hill,

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