Houses and rooms, 2023 to 2025

Six recent projects, from a single primary bath in Mission Canyon to a whole house on the Riviera. Every one was photographed a few months after install day, lived in.

Riviera house living room with cane lounge chairs, a travertine table and steel doors to the garden

Arched opening to the dining room with an olive tree in a terracotta pot

Riviera, Santa Barbara

2025

Riviera house

Whole house, eleven rooms

A 1926 Spanish Revival house on the Riviera, redone for a family of four who wanted it calm rather than precious. We kept the beams, limewashed every wall and furnished it around one long view of the garden.

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Montecito

2025

Montecito ranch kitchen

Kitchen and family room

A 1962 ranch house kitchen opened to the family room, with white oak cabinets from a workroom in Ventura, a smooth plaster hood and a travertine island long enough for homework.

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Montecito kitchen with white oak cabinets, a plaster hood and a travertine island

Steel window over the sink with the live oak beyond

Bedroom window with the ocean beyond the rooftops

Summerland

2024

Summerland cottage

Primary suite and two guest rooms

A 1948 beach cottage above the 101 with a sliver of ocean from the bed. Three bedrooms, pale oak, rumpled linen and nothing that minds a little sand.

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The Mesa, Santa Barbara

2024

Mesa bungalow

Living room and study

A 1924 bungalow near Shoreline Park. We built oak shelves either side of the fireplace for a lifetime of books and found two sage armchairs at a dealer in Ojai.

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Mesa bungalow living room with oak shelves beside a plaster fireplace and sage armchairs

Oak bookshelves and the plaster fireplace mantel

Mission Canyon bath with a limestone tub under an arched window and terracotta herringbone floor

Arched doorway, plaster walls and terracotta herringbone floor

Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara

2025

Mission Canyon house

Primary bath and bedroom

A primary bath carved out of a closet and a sleeping porch, with a pale limestone tub under an arched window and handmade terracotta laid in herringbone.

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Ojai

2023

Ojai farmhouse

Whole house, 1,900 square feet

A 1910 farmhouse at the edge of an orange grove. Old terracotta floors, a table long enough for twelve, rush chairs and a plaster niche for the owner's pots.

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Ojai farmhouse dining room with a long trestle table, rush chairs and an arched opening

Plaster niche holding old clay pots beside the dining table

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A designer walks every room with you, measures, listens, and sends written notes the same week. The visit is $450, and it comes off your design fee if we go on to work together.

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