From Then On

Ingenious details allow a modernized California home to stay true to its era.

- BY JESSICA CHERNER

IF ONE ROOM OFTEN serves as the exception to preserving a historic house's original design, it's the kitchen-where updating is not only welcome but necessary. In Santa Barbara, California, interior designer Kishani Perera and Tom Henson of Becker Henson Niksto Architects took modernization to heart when perfo