A Dreamy California Bungalow Designed for Indoor Outdoor Living House Tour

Hi, Homeworthy. I'm Maddie. Welcome to my home in Oceanside, California. Come on in. You're watching Homeworthy, where we believe every home has a story. Hi, everybody. I'm Maddie Horn, owner of California Revival Studio, which is an interior design studio located here in Oceanside, California. And today I'm going to give you a tour of my home. First, we're starting on the front porch. We started with a large statement door. This is four feet wide, but I love the paneling. The wood is very warm against the black exterior of our house. Ever since I was little, I've always loved a black home. So I knew that we wanted to incorporate that, being that it was our own home. But black homes can feel super bold and harsh if you don't pair it well with the correct landscaping. So we incorporated some really soft, creamy textured stones along here. You'll see the salt eco-outdoor pavers. And then along our driveway, we have the same color, but in a cobblestone. So kind of a mix of materiality. And then we also tried to pull in a lot of very lush, soft, tropical landscaping that softens the exterior as well. And I also want to point out, I love the cute little alabaster sconces that we have on either side here. And as we come up the steps, this is a great little outdoor entertainment space where a lot of the times we'll start our mornings with a cup of coffee, or at the end of the night, you can enjoy a drink here outside, watch neighbors walk by and say hello. And then another feature that I want to point out along this wall is we did an accent with the charred shishigibon wood siding. So it's all paneled along the front here, but then the rest of the home is a smooth black stucco. And we can pop down the steps on this side. As you work your way around this curved pathway, we have a lot of really great tropical landscaping right outside of our windows that sort of peeks through from the other side. And then as you step back into this corner, we have a surf shower hidden in the back here. Same as up front, wherever we use the black wood siding, we had a little bit of extra remnant. And so we thought it was a great, it's waterproof. So it's a great thing to incorporate on the back of our outdoor surf shower here. I also loved the way that the copper pops against the black. This is also working really well for outdoor surf shower for your dog as well, not just the people in your family. And we ran a brick along the bottom here that pulls those like warm copper tones as well. And I wanted to make sure people have everything they need as soon as they get home from the beach. So we hung some copper towel racks, and we also have your body wash shampoo conditioner. So nobody needs to get the sandy toes inside the household. So this is our entryway. Whenever you first come in, we ended up in this little pocket. It's called South Oceanside. It's nestled between the five freeway and the beach in Oceanside, California. And it has a very fun like surf skate feel. We liked that it was a very unpolished neighborhood. This house needed a lot of work when we found it. So it ended up being a full gut and remodel with the exception actually of the kitchen, which the previous homeowners had remodeled before us. So we just tried to do a few very like budget friendly upgrades to tie it in with the rest of the house. Starting out with this entry bench, whenever you first come in, we designed a little custom bench so that we could put, we have our dog's leashes, we have shoes, all the goodies, all the things you don't want people seeing kind of cluttering up your entry whenever you first come in. This travertine slab on top was actually extra slab remanent from one of the bathrooms that I'm going to show you guys in a little bit. So we wanted to use all of that beautiful natural stone. This photo on the wall here is actually one of my husband's pieces. He does photography on the side. So every time we go on a vacation, I like make him bring his camera and we always get some fun shots that we can put up in our house and then makes it feel really special because when people come over, basically every piece of art has a story to it. And then right across from the entry over here, we have our dining area. This room, as you could see, was very large. So it was kind of a struggle to figure out what we were going to really do with this space. But we have a lot of friends and family that are always over and we wanted to make sure we had a room for everybody to kind of sit, chat, enjoy. So we designed this very large banquette area. We did a curved edge white oak detail down here in the corner, which is kind of inspired by the waves in the ocean. And same with the blue cushion as well. I wanted to really pull in all the different colors of our natural environment here. We have on this side, a fun vintage console that I found on Facebook Marketplace actually. So this was a steal, but I loved it because it has a kind of retro feel and it's where we keep our record player and all of our record collection. And also sometimes I'll wipe off the top here and set up a little drink station whenever we have friends over. So this kind of is our main entertainment space. And a lot of the times we'll have game nights or bring all of our friends over for a potluck and it's a real cozy vibe. This house is pretty small. So these are all coastal bungalows. In total, we're at 1700 square feet, including our garage. So I'm going to show you this wing of our house, which has three different bedrooms and one bathroom. And as you enter here into the hallway, you'll see throughout my home, there's a lot of fun, like little shell moments and sea inspired, just like trinkets. So I wanted to incorporate these fun little shell knobs and also this sconce, which kind of felt like a shell to me. Being by the beach, we really love the coastal aesthetic. And I would say like my design style is a lot more organic. We try to pull in that very effortless, like California cool vibe. So I'll point out some fun things along the way that kind of fit that. Here we're in our primary. These rooms, like I mentioned, are pretty small, so we really had to make the best of them. We did all integrated custom white oak cabinetry along this wall, which really helps with our storage space. And because the room was so tight, I really wanted to incorporate some fun design details, but not make it feel too overpowering. So I designed these little custom, they're kind of seventies inspired funky nightstands made of white oak, and they have a fun little walnut pole on them, but they're really narrow. So they fit this bedroom very well. And I brought in a really large oversized headboard, which also has the similar wave detail, which kind of ties in with the entry banquette. So it felt kind of sea inspired to me. And then really all the colors in this room were completely designed around my favorite art piece that I've thrifted. I just think this has the most gorgeous colors in it. I love this piece. And then over on this corner of the room, I found this funky little kind of like seventies inspired vintage chair, another good Facebook marketplace find. But my grandma had a couch in her beach house when I was younger that had this exact same fabric on it. So when I saw it, it just felt like home to me. And I thought it would be a great addition for our bedroom. So makes me happy to see this in the corner every day. And next I'll take you to our nursery. As you guys have probably noticed, I'm expecting. So this is our most recently completed bedroom, which is our nursery for our baby boy that you'll be here in August. And we really started this room with this green seagrass wallpaper. It has such a calming organic feel to it. I just feel like I let out a big deep breath every time I come into this room. And then I didn't want it to feel too like childish. I kind of wanted it to feel a little bit more sophisticated and brought in a lot of very fun coastal vibes. So we have this little fun shell collection that I've collected here, this fun ceramic mirror. And then along this wall, I found these vintage fish, which I just thought were the cutest thing ever for a nursery. We have his little crib and then a few more fun coastal items along the wall here. Both of these are vintage, so I've just found them at like garage sales, thrifted on eBay or in person. But I just love finding old things and then maybe reframing them and making them feel a little bit more new. That's also a great tip for cost effective art. And let's see, on this side, my husband and I found this vintage dresser, which I loved, but we wanted to paint it sort of an unexpected color. This color is called morning sea, which just felt like it really fit in with the rest of my aesthetic. I love the baby blue and this little fish right here. It also ties in with the fish on the wall, but this was actually from our baby moon. The hotel gave it to us and I just thought it was darling and a perfect addition to his nursery. And then lastly on the wall, this piece of art was painted by my great great aunt. So my grandma passed this down to me and I just saw all the colors in it were super delicious and perfect for his little nursery vibe. And next I'm going to take you guys to the bathroom. Here we're in our guest bathroom. It's tiny, but we really wanted to make a huge impact with the materials and finishes that we decided to use for this project. So you'll see in this corner, we have this beautiful integrated travertine sink and we also create a little shower niche. It's hard to see over here, but tucked away in the shower using that same slab remnant and it ties in gorgeous. The blue veining that runs along the front of the countertop here ties in really nicely with this blue zelige tile that we have on the floor. I loved the coastal aesthetic that it brought and it feels very serene. We also wrapped all the walls in Tadalact. So this is a waterproof base finish, runs throughout the whole shower as well as the tub surrounds down here below. And then we used all unlacquered brass. So this kind of patinas over time and I love the way that that looks. You can see we also matched the mirror when the raw unlacquered brass and then hung a fun basket pendant light in the corner to tie it all together. And next I'm going to take you to the guest bedroom. Now we're in our guest room and most of the time this gets used by our family and friends that are coming to stay over. The main thing that I wanted to incorporate in here was some really funky, fun nightstands. So I ordered all this tile. It kind of has this blue and purple coloration to it. We had these custom made and I would say kind of they're the centerpiece of this room and I built the rest of the room around them. But we also have these really fun sculptural sconces above as well. And there's a lot of fun like kind of collectible items that I've found throughout the years in here. This vase being one of them, it reminds me of a mermaid's tail. It kind of has some like scales on it which is pretty cool. And then over on the other side of the bed I have this fun little patina mermaid. I just think she's the cutest thing ever. We love her and I love that the blue tones really pull in with all the colors that are in the nightstands as well. And this piece of art on the wall is another photo that my husband took on one of our last vacations to Europe. So I always love thinking about that every time that I come into this room. And then we have one more tiny piece of art on this wall over here which is another painting by my great-great-aunt. So I wanted to incorporate this one in the guest room since I always have like my mom, my grandma, my sister staying over. And from the bed they can look up at it and it makes us all think of her. Now let's go see the rest of the house. The kitchen was one of the only things that was remodeled before we bought this house. So we really focused our budget on making the rest of the house gorgeous and I just tried to do more cost-effective upgrades in here to tie it in with the rest of the aesthetic. So I'm going to kind of walk you guys through what we did to make it feel a little bit more elevated. The kitchen counters and the cabinetry was existing. We blew out this huge wall that was here blocking off the kitchen. It's now way more open and you can see in through the front door straight to the backyard which really opened up the space. We also pulled out this subway backsplash tile and we put in this gorgeous zelige with kind of like a tan grout to make it feel a little bit more organic. And we added these fun little very cost-effective sconces up above on either side of the kitchen as well. And then lastly we put in a custom plaster range hood. I think a custom plaster range hood always elevates a space. It did wonders for this kitchen and it ties in really nicely with the fireplace that I'm about to show you in the living room as well. So you can follow me this way to the living room. And then the kitchen opens up on this side to our main living area. So this is kind of our room where we're spending most of our time watching tv. It has nice indoor outdoor living with the big doors. So we'll be snuggling with our dog on the couch moving in between inside and outside. It's a great little area. Along this wall here this is really kind of like the focus of the living room. We did a white oak paneling across the whole back wall and then this custom plaster fireplace. My contractors did not love me for this because of this rounded edge detail but I think it turned out so amazing. They did such a good job. This ties in as I was saying with our plaster range hood in the kitchen as well. So kind of connecting those organic feels throughout this space. One of my other favorite features are these amazing little blob sconces. They are chocolate marble from Thailand and I just love the way that they pop against the wood. In this corner of the room this is my favorite piece of art in our entire house. This was another painting by my great great aunt. The colors in it are just gorgeous but I'm obsessed with seascapes if you haven't figured that out already from this home tour. This one was massive and it just really ties the whole space together. Makes me very happy every time I see it as I'm entering this room. In the back of the room over here we have another fun vintage piece which I always love mixing a little bit of old and new in my style. So while most of the other things that are in this room kind of feel more modern and new this vintage console I think is just a huge statement piece in the back of the room. This is onyx. I love the like gold hues that it brings. It's very warm and paired with this plaster mirror I just thought it was a kind of a fun funky vibe. This is another fun thrift find of mine as I had mentioned to you guys. I'm obsessed with shells but I just thought this would be really cool as a planter. I'm not even sure what it's originally supposed to be for but this plant is really working in it and we love that. And on this side of the room we have these tri-fold law cantina doors so you can either open up just one or you can also open all three of them and it's really nice because it opens up the space to the backyard. We really started with the couch and in a house that doesn't have super high ceilings a low couch can really make the space feel a lot bigger. So I went with something very low profile here and another hot tip is if you have a dog I recommend choosing a couch color that's kind of similar to your dog's fur. We have an English cream golden retriever and I literally was picking swatches holding them up to his body to make sure that this was not going to show his dog hair very well. So this is a good place for us to lounge. I loved all the like fun funky pillows that bring in stripes and patterns. Coffee table that we have here really continues the plaster theme that we've tried to use throughout multiple other portions of the house and it's just a very soft organic feel. I also tried to incorporate a lot of like round objects with the side table and with our coffee table to just make this feel a little bit more like snug and comfy. These leather chairs add a little bit of warmth as well to this space and I have some fun seascapes up here that I've thrifted and then this is a little charcoal piece of art from the beach that I spent all my childhood summers going to with my family and I had it reframed in this little seagrass mat paper but it's a good little kind of like childhood memory and I love seeing that every time I walk by. And then as we exit the living room we have another bathroom tucked back here in this corner. Another fun piece of art to point out along the way these abalone shelves they pick up the light that comes through through the lock antenna doors throughout the day so they're always changing color. It's a fun little moment as you enter the bathroom. And then as you come into the bathroom we have these limestone floors. They're very timeless and always feel super soft underfoot. We paired the limestone flooring with this gorgeous chepo marble on the countertops. I love all the like fun chunks that it has throughout the marble so as well as having the marble on the countertop we also pulled it into the shower area which you'll see. We created a like shower bench which is good for all of our shampoos, conditioners, etc. We didn't have a ton of space to work with so it's a little bit narrow. It's more of like a shower ledge but that's kind of a great tip for if you have a small bathroom but you still want to incorporate something to set your items on. It doesn't need to be that wide but it does make a huge difference to have something that you can set all your items on in the shower. And then along the shower wall we did this really gorgeous honey colored zaliz tile and you'll notice that the dry wall is flush with the tiles. That's a fun little construction detail. It just really makes everything feel a lot more elevated. This window opens to our backyard so I love that you can kind of get a glimpse of the orange trees while you're getting ready in here. Our main goal is to just really make our bathrooms feel very spa-like and relaxing so both of our bathrooms I feel like are just a great day or a great place to start your day or wind down in the evenings. Yeah, I love the feel. So let me take you up to the backyard. Now we're stepping into our outdoor space. We spend a lot of time in our backyard now but when we first moved in everything was dirt, complete dirt. The only things that existed in the backyard was this two like really gorgeous mature orange trees that we have over here in the corner. So since we have a dog he was getting very messy this was our first thing to address. We installed turf which keeps the area very clean for kids, pets, etc. We have a nice little dining area over here, a small fire pit that we use in the corner, and then in the very back we have some planter boxes which we like to grow some veggies in during the summer. So right now I think we've got like some cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatoes, so it's kind of fun to pop back there and grab something that can go with our dinner at night. And then I'll walk you guys along this stone pathway. All of these pavers are eco-outdoor pavers but they're really soft underfoot which is nice because we have a lot of this gravel that you can't really walk on barefoot. So we installed these to give us a pathway out to our sauna and kind of wellness area. We have a custom sauna here in the corner and this wood that we used was actually left over from the front of our home. It's a charged Shugibon and we like loved it, didn't want it to go to waste. It was all extra so we tried to incorporate it into our sauna build and I think that turned out really nicely because it pairs with the rest of the facade on the house. And then we also paired this sauna with a couple of outdoor loungers because it's a nice place to start your morning. You can kind of read a book, have your coffee. We also have friends over a lot on Saturdays. We call it sauna Saturdays and people just kind of stop by and we rotate through and it's a good way to chat with friends and our dogs will play in the yard and whatnot. So it's a fun little weekend activity. And next I'm going to show you guys our garage. Also off of our entryway, this used to be a closet right here but we didn't have direct access to our garage which is a major problem as you're trying to get in there to do laundry and whatnot. So we ended up knocking out a little hall closet and we created an access point to our garage here. And as you step down these steps, this is a very multi-function room. Do you guys remember that I said that our house is very small? It's under 1700 square feet. So this space needed to serve three functions for us. One, we didn't have a traditional laundry room so this is our solution to that. Two, we have a garage gym in here as well. And then three, we use it for all of our gear storage which there's a lot of that whenever you live close to the beach and my husband's a surfer so you'll see all of the numerous boards along the wall over here in a second. But first I'll walk you guys through what we did for the laundry area. So along this whole wall we installed custom white oak cabinetry. I think it typically the garage cabinets that you see are not very cute but since I wanted to make this feel more like a laundry room in a place that I enjoy doing laundry in, I wanted it to still have a good vibe and aesthetic to it. So we have all these white oak cabinets, these fun little white Australian finger pools that I just think are super cute. And when you do a stacked washer and dryer you save a lot of space. We incorporated that here. We incorporated three pull-out laundry bins as well and then a rack up above where you can hang clothes to dry. And one thing that I wanted to point out is we epoxied our garage floors because it made the most sense for having a home gym, keeping it clean, etc. But epoxy floors are not easy to match with a countertop. We ended up finding this really gorgeous concrete countertop that has an exposed aggregate edge. So you can kind of see the little like pieces of rock along here and I felt like that paired really nicely with the epoxy on the floor as best as you can pair anything with an epoxy on the floor. And then as we kind of pan over to this wall, this is where we have all of our gear storage. Really tightly condensed but it works really great. And then in this corner of our garage we have all of our workout gear. Thanks for stopping by Homeworthy. We'll see you next time. Thanks for watching. Be sure to go to homeworthy.com for exclusive content, shopping guides, and so much more.