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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Karen Darlow

9 inspiring ways this L.A. redesign adds character to a once-bland and boring home

Dark dining room with chandelier and mirror.

It was the classic blank canvas, a family home built in 2003 in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles. It was spacious but lacking in architectural interest. Any updates to this house design would need to focus on injecting character and style.

That's where interior designers Mollie Ranize and Kim Serani of Dmar Interiors stepped in, with a series of changes involving replacement flooring, new lighting solutions, new paneling and wall treatments, and adding not just one but two new staircases. Dmar Interiors founder Mollie show us around and explains how she went about adding architectural charm to the featureless space. Spoiler alert: textures, lighting, flooring, and wall treatments were key.

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