Are Open Kitchens Going Out of Style?
A few years ago, almost every conversation about kitchen renovation began with the same request. Homeowners wanted to remove the wall between the kitchen and living...
Ryan Mitchell is a Los Angeles interior designer with 14 years of experience across residential projects, apartment makeovers, kitchens, home offices, and family homes. He studied interior design at California State University, Long Beach, and has since learned just as much through real clients, awkward floor plans, limited budgets, and rooms that refused to cooperate with the original idea. Ryan writes about design choices he has seen succeed, mistakes he has helped correct, and ideas that look far better online than they do inside an actual home. He likes beautiful rooms. He simply expects them to survive daily life too.
A few years ago, almost every conversation about kitchen renovation began with the same request. Homeowners wanted to remove the wall between the kitchen and living...
I’m on sick leave this week, but I have a few projects I can’t completely put aside. I’m mostly replying to clients’ messages, reviewing apartment photos,...
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a major apartment design project in Los Angeles. The owners plan to sell the apartment. Right now,...
A TV over the fireplace is one of the most debated topics in living room design. Some see it as a perfectly logical place for the...