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Byline: Sally Singer
On a chilly Friday afternoon in December, Allison Shearmur is sitting in her BMW SUV and looking out at her new Los Feliz home. It's a stunning fairy-tale pile and former German consular residence from 1927 with 7,000-plus square feet of reception rooms and Juliet balconies and a terrace on which 25 lucky friends will one day take in dinner and panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles. (Her husband, the British composer and musical arranger Edward Shearmur, is inside, directing an army of builders in the transformation of the diplomatic HQ to a comfy, unpretentious house for the couple and their five-year-old daughter, Imogen.) Shearmur's ...