French Inspired Girls Room

For my recent project in Berkeley, I've been given the task to design a kids room for a very outspoken, unique little girl. While children have very specific likes and dislikes, they have their whole lives to develop their own tastes and styles. Which makes very specific rooms that can at the same time grow with a child a contradiction.

Shape Mirrors from Bower NYC

For the last two years or so, I've been obsessed with the idea of colored mirror - and extremely disappointed at the selection available. So it was with great excitement that I found a resource with Bower, a contemporary design studio based in New York City.

The New Neutral: Blush

I'm currently working on a residence in Berkeley, California with a client who has a deep affection for blush and everything that goes with it - black, camel, ivory, etc. Although the project is only really beginning, the concept based around shades of pink has proven to be really exciting from a design perspective.

The Search for the Perfect Cereal Bowls

Moving into a new home is a great opportunity for a fresh start in the Kitchen. Especially when you've been living with the same dishes for over ten years.

My first set of dishes was given to me by my mom when I moved out to attend college in San Luis Obispo. When you think of college living, you probably picture a hand me down set of dishes with ramen on top. Fortunately for me, my mom puts great importance on dishes and my first set was a new, Tuscan inspired collection from Pier 1.

Union Station, Los Angeles

For a while now I've been wanting to tour Union Station in Los Angeles. I have a deep affection for Spanish Architecture in and around Los Angeles. In fact, I'm constantly snapping photos of homes around Los Angeles in an effort to discover details and features that I can incorporate in a new Spanish style home I've been working on. What makes Los Angeles the perfect source of inspiration is that the structures are so old, historic in most cases, and they were all built with an attention to detail (and no attention to expense) that you just don't see anymore.

Bathroom Shelf Solution

I recently moved into a new apartment in West Hollywood. Our bathroom came with one of those over the toilet shelving systems, which for most people is a great storage solution and our bathroom is low on storage. However, low isn't always "not enough".

I found there to be plenty of storage under the sink, and more than enough in a nearby hall closet for items we don't use daily. Since our bathroom is on the small side, the first thing I wanted to do was get rid of the shelving system to open up the space. The room felt heavy and a little crowded.

Washington Irving Library

There is an area west of Downtown Los Angeles that I find myself driving through for work, usually on my way to a plater who has recently been refinishing a lot of brass for some Interior Design projects. It's on the map as Arlington Heights and has some of the coolest, gigantic old houses in Los Angeles. Many of which I'm learning were more frequent before the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

I haven't been able to find much information on the history of Arlington Heights online. More generally, there is a great deal of history on Historic West Adams which consists of several neighborhoods: Adams-Normandie, Pico-Union, Angelus Vista, Harvard Heights, Victoria Park, Lafayette Square, Wellington Square, Jefferson Park and Arlington Heights.

Halston

I do not have a Netflix account (yet), but find myself glued to documentaries whenever I am able to take advantage of a friends. Most recently, glued (or should I say draped?) onto Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston.

It's the story of American Fashion Designer Roy Halston Frowick and how he revolutionized the industry during his quick rise to fame in the nineteen seventies and eighties. It seems to be that every film centered around the disco era shines with decadent excess and ends in dark despair - consequences from the excess in fashion, drugs and sex. Halston's life was no exception.