10-second tip: Be honest with yourself
It’s your house and your space, so build a room’s design around the way YOU live. Be honest with yourself: don’t waste space on a formal dining room, for instance, if everyone likes to eat in the kitchen. Better to use that area for a home office or a den than keep it as a room you’ll never use. More 10-second tips.
Mi casa su casa: Bedroom
This is the bedroom in my house in Los Angeles. I just wanted simple, Zen-like pieces to create a relaxing escape. I built the platform bed out of oak, and those are my El Jardin bed linens from Sears on it. Even though the bedroom is part of the second-floor addition, the previous owner took the time to search out old windows that match the original casements downstairs. It’s the kind of attention to detail I really appreciate. I would have normally relished the challenge of a fixer-upper, but with my crazy travel schedule these days it was nice to find a place that was finished and close to how I would have liked to do it myself.
