Rancho Santa Fe
Interior designer Stephanie Parisi invites us inside her Spanish-style home in Santa Fe, where new and antique finds blend seamlessly.
As Seen In
(Image credit: Stephanie Parisi Studio/Fred Licht Photography)
Set within a Spanish Colonial home, Stephanie Parisi’s world was formed by a daily conversation between history and contemporary life: courtyard architecture, artisan-made details, collected objects, and a collection called PARISII. The home was also the setting of her studio, where ideas were imagined, drawn, and brought to life. Became the basis for her PARISII Collection
It takes an expert eye to take an authentic Spanish-style home and sympathetically update it to reflect modern-day living. The interiors need to celebrate those living in it, function for the way they live, yet retain the exquisite architecture that makes the property unique – and that’s no easy feat.
In this Southern Californian home – which belongs to interior designer Stephanie Parisi and her fiancé – dark, overfilled rooms needed to be reimagined into an open, bright space while retaining the original details.
The beauty of this project was that, unlike designing the interiors for a client, Stephanie could fill the space with anything she wanted, and create a space that truly feels like home. Here, she welcomes us inside to showcase the beautiful transformation of her Spanish-style home.
‘The home has an authentic Spanish Colonial architectural layout and was built around a central enclosed courtyard. There were many charming details in place before the recent transformation – many of which were made by artisans and imported from Mexico – but was used excessively, thus giving the home a sort of heavy and busy appearance,’ says Stephanie Parisi.