Buff & Hensman

B&H 1

Entrance


West View


South View


North View


Another View


B&H 1 After Fire

B&H 2

Construction


Balcony

Here's the Kitchen. I used cork for the floors because I could drop dishes and they wouldn't break... it felt good, sounded good and looked good. It took a long time to make and finish the teak cabinets. I chose spruce for the ceilings because it is the same as a good Martin acoustic guitar and would influence the sound... I recorded some in the house. The berries are from my garden... planted on the fence row leading to the mail box so I could see, pick and eat the ripe ones each day. Yellow flowers are Scotch Broom a native.
Kitchen


Master Bedroom

From the goat house looking at the 2 buildings... in 1985 before all the plants grew... notice the native California poppys in the cobblestones. The pool solar panels were lowered.
South View

Here's the Conversation area... 3 couches that double as beds and lift up for storage. The 7 foot teak and ebony table that I made for the center had already been taken out. It will show up in the Van Dyke house pictures. The media center is on the opposite wall... you can see it from the balcony photo next.
Conversation Area

From the Home Magazine section of the Los Angeles Times March 10, 1985
Rear

I just noticed that the house which I built, and rebuilt after being completely burned in the 1978 fire is up for sale again. As you can see, I built a non flammable house. The realtors wrote this copy obviously.... and Malibu dollars bear no resemblance to the regular US dollar. I used the 'huge pasture' for my goats. The 'separate one bedroom guest house' is the old goat house... (not pictured) The original house was the building on the right made of clear heart redwood. When I rebuilt I added the 2 bedroom wing connected by a bridge. Above the bridge, on the second story is one of those large French doors like the ones that you can see. One year I had a crow pecking the glass each day for an hour or so... I don't know why... but I didn't let it bother me... I was interested. The bird eventually went away. Perhaps it could see its reflection and thought that it was having a competition. From the Home Magazine section of the Los Angeles Times March 10, 1985
Rear


Goats

B&H 3
This was taken from the kitchen looking the other way over the 7 foot teak and ebony table to the living room fireplace area. The master bedroom is behind the hearth wall.
Living Room / Dining Room

Here is the interior of the Third home that I built. I'm starting with the interior because it has the 7 foot round teak and ebony table that I made for the First house... which was rolled out while the place was burning...moved out of the Second house just before the Home Magazine photos were taken (I'd just sold the place to pay my ex-wife) and was the beginning of the Third, the Van Dyke House. I sat with my architect, Conrad Buff, with a big blank sheet of paper. Without saying anything he drew a circle. I asked, What's that? To which Conrad replied, You still have your table don't you? and I said. Yes! I'd been burned out of the First, lost the Second in the property settlement and was starting again with just raw land and a table. Through all 3 homes, and conditions, the table had survived... and so had I. So the Third home began with the big teak and ebony table... and we drew the rest around it.
Interior

OK, I found an exterior shot of the third home I built. Here's what you see when you come up the 700 foot driveway to the rear of the house.
Rear