Interior Design | Beautiful Homes in California | Reveal #3

I have goosebumps, I am so excited because today is the day of the reveal for this project. Do you know that in six hours, our clients are gonna arrive here and walk through this front door for the first time. And we're gonna reveal to them their absolutely amazing completed brand new home. Do you absolutely love these benches? Just look at this hand carved cut walnut benches that we had made. We have a pair and they line both sides of this entry to this home. I absolutely adore these sconces. They go really well with the hanging pendants that we put in the hallway. Come on, let me show you the living room. Would it sound weird if I keep getting goosebumps? Now, let me just point this out. This is a very neutral color palette that we're using in this project because that's the client's taste. You know how I love to accessorize, right? Isn't this cute? Remember when I was in Laguna, I bought this. I wasn't sure what it was. I thought it was like a shell or a snail, but I love it. This is from Z Gallery. My floral person put these together and here's another box from Matilda's Mouse. All of these things, contemporary or modern and sophisticated mixed with something architectural and something old, that's what I'm talking about in bringing warmth into your home. So it doesn't look like you went to a model home and bought a bunch of accessories from the same company, right? Look at this table. Love, love, love this table. I think this is like 50 inches or something. It's really big. I want you to look down below here and see that underneath there's a whole nother shelf that we can use for magazines and books, but I love the spoke effect that goes underneath. And it's a kind of little subtle detail that you wouldn't necessarily see, but someday you will and you'll go, wow, that's amazing. I got to design it. Do you love the window treatments? Horizontal stripes in a variegation of colors of our color palette. These lights that you'll see all the way across this room that light up each individual panel are from LBL Lighting and they're really unusual. It's the only company I know that makes these. So I have them mounted to the wall and then adjusted down and then we can actually adjust those heads right on the window treatments. These two sofas we had custom made. Grayson painted this spectacular lighthouse painting for us and then I got some beautiful restoration hardware accessories. Look at this chain. This is from Matilda's Mouse. Remember my trip there? As well as these amazing cute binoculars. So look, these are those iron screens I was telling you about that Grayson designed. These screens provide a little bit of a room divider kind of feel in this room. So we have the living room and the dining room. It doesn't close them off, you can still see through, but it creates a little bit of intimacy which is what I love in every room. It brings all these elements of modern, antique, contemporary, traditional together to make for an absolutely beautiful room. I love the fabric I chose for these chairs. Look at this. It's a really amazing medallion print. So here's what we did. We got the chairs for the captains, that means the wife and the husband right at the end, in white and then this subtle, not subtle, it's an amazing pattern, geometric pattern down here and this like wheat color and then I chose that color to do all of the rest of the chairs around the room. We actually had a custom made table with a gorgeous set of legs down here. Talk about nice legs. These legs on this table are so incredible. I love them and we had a local craftsman make that for us. So this is a huge dining room table which in a room this size can make it feel like it's all furniture but because I chose such a neutral palette it allows us to get the maximum amount of space and function without it feeling cluttered and like overwhelming. I actually designed a built-in buffet. Let me take you around and show you. Do you love these plates on the way? Each place setting has two placemats. This brown one is almost the color of the table itself but by doing two placemats together it gives me enough space to actually have everything fit on a placemat. Aren't these gorgeous? These are tulips, a special kind of tulip, something fancy, I don't remember what it's called but I love that and that's in resin so as much as that looks real, it's not, it's fake. It'll look that good two months from now. So we got sconces here and a mirror. Remember when Grayson goes, it's a horse on that video of us going to Laguna? Well here she is, Black Beauty herself. And this nice high, look how high this is and I'm wearing heels, this is a really high buffet with great space and storage for everything and a nice place to put some accessories. We start with this big base foundation below and put Black Beauty right on top. Let's go on to the next room. So let me show you how this room turned out, the powder room. We added an amazing, gorgeous, sculptural mirror above here and you know what, I looked for a long time about which mirror I was gonna put above here. Couple of reasons. One, it needs to sit really low because of these handles up here and otherwise a short person will be washing their hands and they won't be able to see. Of course a short person doesn't need to see because they don't wear makeup. I hung two pendant lights and this is mercury glass which is pretty cool. At different heights and different spacing up above to kind of give us a one-sided lighting and then of course we do have a can light right above as well. Now, here's an interesting fact. In the original model, this wall was supposed to go like this and be just your typical bathroom, toilet room, sink, but there was a wine cabinet on the other side of this and our clients don't drink so they said we don't need a wine closet so we closed it in and because I was here so early with the blueprints, I was able to make those kinds of changes. So we made the space available in the powder room which gave us great place to put storage for extra toilet paper, reading materials, I don't know, whatever you'd wanna do in the bathroom, it's in there. Someone actually asked me, she said, we do wanna see what's over the toilet because we all have toilets and don't know what to do with them. Well, that's kind of like a broad statement because yeah, we all have toilets but we all have different backs behind our toilets but I'll show you what I did here. Let's take a look. So above this toilet, since it's a nine foot tall room, I was able to stack three pieces of art. If you saw the Laguna Accessory Hall video, you'll remember at the very end, I was saying, what is this, designed by Vogt? And this is what I was talking about, these three pieces. Actually, the back fabric is in a different color so these two are in kind of a seafoam green and this one is neutral. Once it gets in the room, I don't think it's anything that catches your eye and because I did two, a pair on either side of a single, I think we got away with it but it does fill in that space nicely. So the person using the toilet also gets a room that's completely designed. Do you remember me showing you what amazing tile we used for the backsplash? Look at this pot filler. I don't even know if I pointed that out to you before. That's pretty cool. You get hot water instantly for your spaghetti and stuff like that but here's what I did. Remember how I did these corbels in the dark? I felt like when I stood back and looked at this wall, I wanted to pull the lightness out. So what I did was I got two really cool, well actually four, from Anthropologie, these really cool pots and I put fake silk herbs in them so it looks kind of kitchen-y but it also brings this color palette over to the side and just widens this space. You're also gonna notice that above all of these cabinets now we have white milk glass or ivory milk glass pottery all the way around so it kind of gives a light color to this very dark, otherwise dark room. Some people have left comments on video number one saying it's so dark and I think give me a minute. So here are dual islands. Again, this leather finish. I'll tell you what, after living here for three weeks putting this house in, this is the countertop I would use and I'll tell you why. It covers a multitude of sins. I'm not kidding you. It does, I mean you can have, you have to look at it in the light just right to make sure there's something on it because it absolutely covers everything. Perfect for a family. I've been shopping for accessories for this house for about a year now. So here's the deal, you got all this stuff and I take pictures of everything so I remember but when you bring it all together, you're like, it's Christmas! You're opening up all these things and putting it together and I found all these apothecary jars that I bought plus this really neat plant, remember this, in my antiques haul. These are so fun in a kitchen because then you can put in, well you can put in anything you want. Some people might put something healthier in these. I put in candy because I thought, well that's really fun and they have two kids so why not, you know, when you do your homework, you deserve a treat. Actually, I could use a treat right now. Over to your right, we have her cookbook collection and over here to your left, this is the area I was telling you about. We did the landscaping books here and then these are the plates that can be dropped. Because I was thinking, if I was six years old, it would be my job to set the table. Well, that's what's gonna happen and she can easily get to this area and set the table. The plates can look like China, but they are unbreakable. I'll wash that plate later, don't you worry. Now up on this table, I picked a very neutral placemat and some white plates, so they're just an off-white and these are really cool votives. So these votive candles, you light and then this glass just kind of like gets a sparkly look. Put some cute topiary trees that I had made in the center and here are those glass globes I was telling you about that I matched on the sconces. Is this like a cool light fixture for a kitchen? Love it, love it. Sometimes when you need an area rug, it's hard to pick something or find something that's gonna go with your look. So I went to Kohl's Carpets and I picked out a carpet that I thought the color palette was great and this is just wall-to-wall carpet. We had it cut and made to our size and bound with a six-inch binding of the gray color that we've used. Now, look at these chairs. Remember, I told you about Ecat fabric? This is what it is, isn't that pretty? But I kept the espresso legs here. So you can mix and match, but just keep your color palette similar, okay? Here is the game table and the chairs I was telling you about. Now we had the chairs made, but we bought the game table up at the Laguna Design Center and this is a great Scrabble board game that I picked up at Restoration Hardware. Look at this. This is metal with these like brads, whatever those are, big screws, and then it goes into wood and then down here, look at this, it's like a turntable thing. You can actually make this table higher or lower. It's up to you. And then these legs even like change, so it changes the height of the table. It is one stinking heavy table. Grayson could not pick it up and put it on his back like he does most things like, you know, pianos and cars and stuff. So it's very heavy table. The backdrop to that, what sets the perfect stage? This amazing fireplace. Remember when I showed you this? Oh my gosh, totally love this, but look what pulls it together. Look at these paintings. Aren't these amazing? Grayson did this and I think this one's really, really neat. This gives us the ability to take this very neutral color palette and start to introduce some other colors. The colors I chose were sea colors. Amazing. Look at this cool piece of furniture. It's actually three separate pieces, but you know what it does? It houses some extra games because hello, game room, but it also, this whole scenario here, it kind of created a little bit of an invisible, unspoken room divider screen that's very creative and it's made out of furniture and lighting. Look at this. I originally wanted to put lamps here, but I couldn't, so we hung these cool pendant lights and they've got the Edison bulb. Love the Edison bulb. Look, remember this? This is one of the pieces I bought and showed in the Laguna Accessory Hall. It creates this little bit of a fan, but kind of like your eye goes through it, but it kind of stops your eye at the same time. It keeps this room from looking long and skinny, although I would like to be long and skinny, wouldn't you? Don't miss this. This is so cute. I actually made this. It's my little thing. It's a shell, but I melted wax, stuck a wick in there. I just basically, I took a load of candle and I melted it down and I filled it in and when we burn that, it is the cutest thing to see a shell with light coming from the center of it. How cute is that? I bought one large sofa here. Let me take you around and show you. One large sofa and I'm saying this thing is large. It's probably at least nine feet long and then four chairs, one, two, three, four, but look at the detail. It's got these great arms on the side and it's got buttons and it has nail heads and it even has nail heads over on the side here. Look at this. That's some awesome detail on furniture. We had these made. These are what I'm gonna use for coffee tables and they pull apart and you're gonna see, I do this kind of a lot when I have big family rooms because a small coffee table just doesn't look scaled right. The reason these rooms look so amazing is because we have the stuff made to be the right size and it makes a huge difference and then I just did this really casual grouping for accessorizing. Just some cool books. Some of these I picked up on my Matilda's Mouse, this box. This is one of the glass pieces I bought at Matilda's. Remember this in my video? Now look, I made another candle out of it. Isn't that cute? So this is how I accessorize the bookcase. More special pieces, some coral, even some, I think this is a geode. I think it would make a nice bracelet. Actually, I have a necklace similar to this and then across the top, Grayson's painting. Here, see this? That is one of those vases that I just made into a candle and this is a piece that the client already owned because of course, whatever they have, we want to intermix their things with the things that they had with the new things and there's a lot of their stuff mixed in here too. I just haven't pointed it out. Why don't you follow me into the guest room? One of our final rooms I wanna show you is the guest room and in this room, we actually use the client's existing furniture. This happened to be the only piece of furniture that came from their old house. Guess what? When the nightstands arrived and the bed, we found that this went across this far. This nightstand was too wide. So Oscar came and he took it apart and he made it smaller so it would fit in this room. Again, another great reason to have custom builders on your side. This is a rustier wood than we've used anywhere else in the house. So I wanted to bring that color into this gray and neutral color palette. So I found this gorgeous bedding. It's actually wasn't bedding, it was just fabric. It's a linen that's embroidered. Over here, another painting by Grayson. Again, brought in all of our oranges and rust colors from the furniture. Oh, let me show you this desk. This is cool. This is a fold-up and it has the drawers underneath. So this can be a really skinny desk or it can be pulled out and made into a larger one. It even has another flap over here to make it even wider. So that's cool. The window treatments are a combination of bronze and the green color that you see here in my bedding. You see how that pulls together? So we had these window treatments made and then Luis fashioned a rod and rings taken from this sliding barn door design. So he kind of took the design and he made the same type of thing so that the two could be married and come together in the corner perfectly. I just think it turned out so great. And of course, this barn door, hello. Is that not the coolest thing? This takes us on into the bathroom where we did some simple accessorizing with towels, some artwork, and then back here at this great vanity, I used some simple home goods and or, yeah, this was home goods, you know, soap and lotion type holders. And then here we have this built-in that has all these fun little colored glass and clear glass pieces just to kind of give a little bit of decoration in the bathroom. Indoor outdoor living is one of the things that we in Southern California pride ourselves on. We love to bring the outside in and the inside out. Here in our interior courtyard, it's almost like the outside itself, but we are completely surrounded by walls. However, the roof is completely blown off. This looks like a window, doesn't it? No, it's a mirror. It's a mirror that I bought through Pottery Barn and it's actually made for outdoor living. Underneath, we have a potter's table, fresh flowers, and a place where they could actually pot their own herbs and use them for cooking. As we go around the corner, I got some great vines that are gonna just bloom this orange flower. I don't think it's year-round, but when it's not orange, it'll be green and it's gonna grow up the wall. I think it's gonna look amazing. We also bought these chairs. Now, these chairs are really cool because look, they fold up like this, almost completely flat. So we bought six of these and I think they were like $29 a piece. They were such a good price. We couldn't pass it up. And that's kind of what started the look for this house. Now, everything in the house is kind of gray. Do you know what teak does when it gets aged? It turns gray. So I'm thinking this is even gonna look better a year from now. A lot of you have let me know that you enjoy the detail that I'm taking you through on these videos, but it makes for a long video. So guess what? If you wanna see how floor number two turned out, you're gonna have to come back for the next edition from this series of the project we're doing, Luxury Home in Southern California. I'll see you guys next time, upstairs.