One of the reasons I loved designing the studio of American Idol vocal coaches Peisha McPhee and Adriana McPhee Collin was that the original space was so plain. It was…

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Teen therapist Sandra Dupont gets it. When she moved into her new office, she wasn’t content to just take whatever furniture came with the space, or furnish it with extra…

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My kitchen used to be all-white. It was very sterile-looking. I wanted to do something to it, but wasn’t sure what to do until one day I was at the…

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I love decorating kids’ rooms. I can use all the color and whimsy I can imagine, and I get to create the room I never got to have as a…

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For the design of the L.A. Jewish Journal‘s new offices, I created an “old journalism” meets “new media” concept. Every door was covered in graphic black and white photo murals,…

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My friend Joanne was given these really cool armchairs from the 60s by her aunt. The upholstery was frayed around the piping, and the seats were pretty much thrashed, but…

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Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills is a beautiful estate that is used in many movie shoots, like Spiderman and There Will Be Blood. I was honored to be asked to…

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A bedroom using Pantone’s 2016 Color of the Year, Serenity. Although Serenity is at first glance a baby blue, it can look very sophisticated when mixed with the right colors.

This is one of my favorite makeovers, partly because the “before” was so extreme. What this apartment needed was organization (including lots of storage, which you don’t see in the…

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My home was the very first decorating I ever did. Because I had no formal training, and I had a wild imagination, I just did things I thought might be…

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Cat condos are the bane of an interior designer’s existence. They look hideous, are covered with centuries-old cat hair, and they get in the way of our gorgeous furnishings. So…

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