A Bold & Colorful Eclectic Living Room in a 1928 Bay Area Home | Living Room Tour

Welcome to our living room. This is one of my favorite rooms in the home. So this is of course a wonderful view straight into our garden. I always like putting a plant in front of a window because I think it bridges the outside inside. This is a Ken Fandel amazing piece of art that from afar I thought was calligraphy but if you get close to it it's actually tires that came off of big rigs on the highway 405 in Los Angeles. It's just exquisite. I love it. It just spoke volumes to me. So this is our fireplace. This home is built in 1928 so it's the original fireplace. I love having a fire in the winter. It's a little warm for today. I found these on Etsy believe it or not but I love them. Hilo. It's a beautiful antique mirror. I love to do floral decorations so you'll see that all over the place. A nice chaise for lying down in front of the fire. Piano. I play piano. My dad is an excellent pianist. And then again lots of green curtains to bring the outside in. A beautiful soft chair and I kind of went crazy with the pink couch but my designer Allison Kokoma was like do it and I'm so happy we did. Again all of this artwork I've collected over the years. This is one of my very most favorite artists is John Funt. I have I think six of his pieces. He does beautiful artwork of flowers. Lots of just beautiful distilled lice but very modern. I'm obsessed maybe a little too obsessed. I just got this chair recovered. I found this in a store that was they were moving and going on a sale so I mean you know all of the things. This is my grandmother's beautiful lamp. Everything you see I've gotten either in sort of like a high level design house or like I said in a garage sale on Cherish. I just love to collect and I buy things that really move me. My husband and I we were in Palm Springs and we saw this painting and I thought I gotta have that. San Francisco in Japantown. I found this. I love it. And again the green curtains for bringing the outside in. You have our Japanese maple and our tulip trees outside that are just starting to bud. They're so beautiful. And then again another piece for my grandmother. This is a beautiful blood lamp. Really special. I love Erin Lauder's pieces. I have one of her vases here. And then another John Funt piece is right here actually. This is a kind of a collage like a three-dimensional piece. I love it so much. Got this beautiful bird cage. When I went on a girl's trip with my friends to Petaluma near Sonoma and it brought this beauty home with me. So it's just as you can see it's just a collection of things from my experiences, my journeys, times with friends, times by myself, times with my husband and I think that's what makes a room. And then you just put beautiful flowers and lots of photos of your family up to make it homey. That's really important to me. And voila there you have it. I also wanted to mention I found this beautiful coffee table in a little antique store somewhere and it just spoke to me. I love the hand detailing, the gold, the floral print and it was just the perfect size. I always think black, one piece of black in any room really anchors it. It's like it's a bit of tension but good tension so that's why I love this piece. And then this is a Fortuny light which I love. I just love these little details like this, like this little gem hanging down and the delicate beading around the edge. It's really beautiful and I find it really important to have something especially in a big cavernous room like this. You have to fill it otherwise it just echoes and it feels sort of, you know, almost sad. So we wanted to bring some light, the light down to warm up the room. That's another wonderful, I have a lot of pieces by this artist, Dharma. It's all hand painted and then if you go really close you can see those little beads in those flowers. It's just really special. Lots of family photos of course, lots of plants, flowers everywhere. That's to me what makes a home a home. And then we have the Rose Tarlow chair and I covered this in a fabric that I had that I just couldn't wait to use and I thought it would go really nicely with the pink couch. Even down to picking this, the edging here. I mean I just, I love for this stuff. It's important to me when I have guests in the room that they have a place to sit and a place to put their cocktail or their coffee or whatever we're doing. So lots of chairs, lots of space for sitting, lots of place to put your things. You want it to be beautiful but you also want it to be functional and practical. Sometimes I'll even find my daughter reading a book or my son on, you know, feet up on the couch in front of the fire and that's, those are the things that for me make a home a home. One of my favorite pieces in this room is actually the tiniest piece and it's this beautiful green alligator leather footstool that I found when my husband and I were in Buford in South Carolina and I saw it in the window of a store. The store was closed and I thought I'm gonna come back for it in the morning and I did and I grabbed it and I was so happy. Brought it back or actually they shipped it and here it lives under our Bunny Williams table. This I found again at a, gosh I think it was like an open air market somewhere. You put some art books on the table and boom you're done. So it never, never, whenever you're interested in something I always, I'm like a heat-seeking missile, just go for it and if it fits with your budget and your schedule then I say get it because you'll never be sorry. Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides and so much more.