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Jill Ellis puts her father and three young sons to work, enlisting their help in building a picture-perfect pool house in her sunny Santa Barbara yard. Christine Lennon – July 2, 2021
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Jill Ellis is one of those multi-hyphenate creative people who is almost irritatingly excellent at many things, whether itâs designing a clever store window, organizing a perfectly art-directed craft workshop through her company, Makeshift Studios, or designing and building a small house in her backyard. When we say that she built a house, we donât mean it in a conceptual way, like when someone says, âWe built a house,â and the subject âweâ is a team of hired sub-contractors. When Ellis says she built a pool cabana, a hyper-efficient one with a loft bedroom, bathroom, outdoor shower, kitchen, pop-up bar, and multipurpose hangout s