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You can see the shifting grain of cedar wall panels, the smooth movement of Japanese plaster and the jagged veining of terrazzo slabs.

For the main theater, to avoid changing the building’s historic roofline, crews excavated below the original slab, lowering the stage and audience levels so catwalks, rigging and lighting grids could fit under the low profile.

The couple learned they had to maintain the historic parts of their yard with its Hollywood driveway — two strips of concrete instead of a long slab — and concrete walkway to the front porch.

“It’s like this obsession — finding a piece of wood and making something out of it,” Greene said, sitting in the small, tool-lined studio with guitars in progress hanging beside sun hats and slabs of wood.

His signature dish, “milksteak,” is exactly what it sounds like: a slab of beef boiled in milk, served “over hard” with a side of raw jelly beans.