Mari Tzikas Suarez
A Power Hour Pair
“I’ll never design a kitchen or bathroom any other way again,” says Claire Jones, principal designer of Etch & Ivy and co-owner of the new Happy Hour Design Collective, which she opened with friend...
Culinary Arts
Interior designer Savita Sachdeva’s recipe for a dream kitchen? Function, style, sophistication and color. All of these variables are very apparent in the culinary transformation she pulled off for a family in Folsom. Sachdeva,...
Nest: Placerville Redesign
Kristin and Chuck Mansfield moved from Healdsburg back to his hometown of Placerville, looking for a place to lay down roots. What they found—one of the only true midcentury-modern homes in the area—is now...
Nest: Tudor With the Color Black
When you turn a patchy grass area into a gorgeous pool, an uneven brick patio into a sleek entertaining space, and a detached garage into a stylish home office and guest quarters, it’s not...
Garage to Office Transformation
This 600-square-foot space is a virtual classroom, an art and design studio and a hangout space. A place to watch movies, to entertain guests and to exercise. And less than a year ago, it...
Modern Farmhouse in Davis
It’s a major moment for many designers: designing your own home from the ground up. Except when Marin Wilson of Marin Design Co. dreamed up her growing family’s home in Davis more than four...
Sexy & the City
When you live in a condo above Sacramento’s sexiest hotel, your home is destined to inherit some of that sex appeal, too. For the woman who inhabits this swank condo, that’s totally OK. In...
Spicing Things Up
Doctors Rakesh and Swapna Parikh wanted their home—a beautiful but admittedly dated Tuscan-style house—to feel more like home. A modern dwelling that enveloped them in the vibrant hues and beloved rituals of India. Laura Neuman of PepperJack Interiors in...
Blue Her Mind
It was supposed to be an Airbnb. But after Rebecca Ward came in to select finishes and furnishings, the homeowner of this custom new build had a major change of heart. “The client was so happy with...
Uno, Dos, Tres
With vacations scratched and camps canceled, Kele Dobrinski and Christina Valencia are looking ahead to another long stretch of at-home time with their sons, Jack (7), Wyatt (4½) and Adler (2), and dog Murphy....
