Located in Healdsburg, Northern California, a dated Italianate house has been transformed into a California Casual Mediterranean home. Soledad Alzaga Interior Design was hired to redesign, renovate, and project manage the entire main house, guest house, pool and gardens.

The renovation included all aspects of the finishes and furnishings. We updated bathrooms, refinished and lightened the ceiling beams, and replaced the wall-to-wall carpet with wide plank white oak floors. The old ornate fireplace was replaced with a modern see-through gas fireplace, enhancing the flow between spaces. The result is a light, airy, and welcoming home perfect for the family to enjoy and entertain.

In this stunning Pacific Heights home in San Francisco, our goal was to preserve the original architectural details while integrating modern furniture and lighting alongside vintage pieces. Showcasing the client's art and sculpture collection was a priority. We included custom-designed furniture to enhance the space. Soledad Alzaga Interior Design was enlisted to update the kitchen and bathrooms, as well as to furnish and decorate the entire house for a family of five.

When this picture of my client's interior came out in Rue Magazine, I got a lot of emails asking me about it. I realized how much people, and myself, like using photography when decorating. Here are other examples of spaces that look great using photos. Enjoy!

Love this huge picture of a bull. Looks great on top of this gray sofa.

Notice the contrast of the photography having no frame against the very ornate molding.

An old picture blown up and distressed without a frame.

Here instead of using one big picture, many smaller ones were grouped together to make one big statement. They can all be B&W or color, but don't be afraid to mix too, but be sure to have some consistency with the frames if you are going for this look.

 For more questions on our projects contact Soledad Alzaga Interior Design in San Francisco at info@soledadalzaga.com

Alexander Wang Objects collection should have been called "objects of desire". These chic, modern and useful pieces are great as presents. Here are some of my favorites...

With this one I would be a bit scared of getting the actual lock stolen....

More and shop at http://www.alexanderwang.com/shop/objects/shop-objects-collection/

 

If you have seen my home featured in Rue Daily last week, you know I have a thing for white interiors. I thought it was going to be a phase, but it turned into a 7 year phase with no end in sight. Every now and then I think about painting my walls different shades of gray, but then I come back home and I realize I need a blank canvas to come back to.

I get to paint my clients' homes in other colors, and I have been doing many different shades of gray walls for the last 5 years and still love them. I find they are calming, sophisticated and art looks great against gray.

Here are some white room examples, with use of color, or other neutrals, beige and browns, this rooms never look cold or boring to me.

In my living room I have all white walls, but used a lot of pops of color to add warmth and texture. The art on top of the sofa is from Rene Garcia Jr.

I love this room. White walls with brown and beige. That fur on the bed is amazing and I like that the lamps on the bed side tables don't match.

I am in love with this bathroom. The texture of the bricks on the walls adds so much to this space that it looks great just painted white.

Cozy rug, wood, modern lines in the sofa...  My kind of room.

White, gray and black, this time with modern marble tables

I don't know if this room is white or gray but the combination of both makes me so happy.

The back room in a darker gray looks great and the rug and gray sofa in the lighter rooms ties everything together.

xxx, Soledad

January 27th, 2014

 

This summer I was asked to decorate a teen girl's room. This lucky girl was going to be gone for the summer and was going to be surprised with a new room on her return before starting her first year of high school.

The premise I got was that she likes white, gold and peach colors, she needed a make up area, a study area and a hang out area. 

We first painted everything bright white with Benjamin Moore Super White; my favorite go-to white color. It has no tint of blue or beige, it's just super white! And to make it easier to clean and make even fresher, I chose to paint it in Satin finish.

I chose an upholstered bed with a big storage drawer from Room and Board in white canvas. I thought of bringing gold detail with the bedside tables from West Elm, and the table lamps are from Shabby Chic by Rachel Ashwell. Bed linens from various places, but the most important are the sheets from Anthropologie, as well as the curtains. 

Love these sheets!!!

What looks like wall paper is actually gold circle wall decals which we put on the wall. Found the process very therapeutic and easy to do. Although you need to know when to stop because you can get carried away and end up with too many dots and a wall that looks like it has chicken pox.

Just start at a corner or in the middle and make sure you take a couple steps back to look at the big picture, and keep going back and forward. Hopefully you'll know when to stop.

This room has an original fireplace with pink stone surround which worked perfectly with the color scheme. The peacock mirror adds another gold accent and makes this room a bit more grown up. 

The bright pink pillows are from West Elm and I added layers of throws to cover an existing day bed which can be used as a sofa or as an extra bed for sleepovers.

The make up desk is a parsons table my client already had, and the Lucite chair is from Ikea. I wish the legs were in brass or gold, but you get what you get and you work with it. Curtains from Anthropologie.

All this items are easy to shop for online and are relatively fast to ship. Make sure when you are ordering things that you check availability before you order. It happened in this project with some desks we ordered and after waiting for almost two months we had to cancel and order something else. Don't want to name names, but when you are working trusting other companies so you can do your work well, it gets complicated to be an interior designer and buy things off the internet. But in the end it all works out 😉

Hope you love this room as much as I do!!