It wasn’t necessarily the house that drew interior designer Kim Lapin to this Spanish-style home in the Los Angeles suburbs, but rather the storybook neighborhood. Before moving with her young family from the center of the city to Palos Verdes, where she’d grown up, she’d drive this particular street of the coastal Californian suburb simply to take in the area’s natural beauty — and marvel at the diverse styles of property through the car window. Craftsman, ranch, mid-century modern, contemporary: it’s a street that reads like an architecture textbook.
It’s not, however, an area so well-known for exceptional interior design. "While in this town there are beautiful homes, it’s not very common that they are well designed on the inside," Kim admits, "and I wanted to feel like my home was still an inspirational place, even in a suburb."
