Actress Elizabeth Tulloch and her husband, David Giuntoli, recently welcomed their baby girl! I had the pleasure of getting an up-close and personal glimpse into the nursery right from the start. I spoke with Elizabeth while she was still pregnant and starting to plan...
There has been lots of chatter about wallpaper and wall murals over here lately and for good reason. There are just so many amazing and gorgeous designs to choose from—overwhelming, I know! I regularly get emails from customers asking if they should wallpaper just an...
Every designer has had that project where they know they are designing for their client, but also secretly want everything for themselves. This was the case for this little girl’s room that I created for my client in Newport Beach, CA. My client’s daughter was a...
Wallpaper has been a massive trend in nursery design for years. I remember when I first started my studio in 2008 and people were just starting to come around to the idea of wallpaper again. By 2010, every nursery client was asking for a wallpaper accent wall. I...
I recently started working with an amazing new client, Irene Khan. She contacted me recently and wanted help designing her little girl’s nursery. She had seen a few other nurseries on my Instagram that she loved, and wanted something similar for her daughter....
More often than not, when I start working with a new client, they will usually own an item or two that they want incorporated into the space. It’s usually something like a family photo, a knit blanket from Grandma, or occasionally a small piece of sentimental...
When making the most of a space, seemingly small details can make a huge difference. Lots of decisions and details go into making a room come together. One of the more simple details that has a huge payoff is in the installation of curtains. My clients ask me all the...
Here’s the thing, if you’ve never had a baby before, navigating the nursery design can be super confusing. Aside from making the nursery look nice, you have to worry about getting the right products, making sure everything is safe, and figuring out where...
It was raining for several days straight here in SoCal, which is amazing—we need the water! But if you’re anything like me, part of you loves the overcast and dreary weather and the other part wants to curl up on the sofa with kleenex and a cathartic...
There’s one thing that my clients sometimes say to me that I just love. “I want my nursery to be modern but also kind of traditional—somewhere in between.” I love that this opens me up to all kinds of options; it really gets my creative juices flowing. I had a nursery...
2018 has been quite the year for me, both personally and professionally. It has brought with it lots of new experiences, challenges and changes. I’ve definitely shared more of myself with you in 2018 than ever before (mostly on Instagram, and mostly because my...
Any interior designer will tell you that there is always that one special piece in any room that gets all of the attention. In a bedroom, it’s usually the bed. In a living room, perhaps the sofa. In a nursery, it’s the crib. When I first...
Over the past few months, I was working on a nursery design for Jenna Kutcher. If you’re not familiar with her, she’s an incredible role model—a photographer, entrepreneur, podcaster and advocate for women, body positivity and inner truth. She’s...
A few months ago, the lovely Jessi Malay reached out to me for help designing the nursery for her daughter, Alessandra. They had just purchased a brand new home in Los Angeles and had a completely blank canvas to work with. The first time I saw the space, I was so...
I get design inspiration from all over the place. Sometimes it’s obvious and makes perfect sense. Other times something almost unnoticeable will sit in the back of my brain and wake me up in the middle of the night in a fit of creativity (that’s fun, but I...
You may have noticed that I’ve been posting a lot of little hints about the nursery I’ve been working on for Jessi Malay. Jessi reached out to me and asked if I would help her design her daughter’s nursery in the new home they had just moved into....
