Interior Design · Los Angeles By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio A client will say they want “a bar” the same way they might say they want “a powder room.” It sounds like a small ask: a counter, a sink, maybe a wine fridge tucked underneath. Then the plans get drawn and
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA A few months after a Los Angeles renovation wraps, the swatches are gone, the punch list is closed, and the homeowner finally starts shopping for furniture. That is usually when the small, expensive problems surface. A floating console has nothing behind the
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA A homeowner planning a front and back yard refresh in Beverly Hills usually starts with a moodboard: three or four photos of Mediterranean gardens, maybe a native planting scheme they saw at a friend’s house, a request that it read lush rather
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Real estate listings group Bel Air, Holmby Hills, and Beverly Hills together as the “Platinum Triangle,” three neighborhoods sold as one idea of Los Angeles luxury. For a renovation project, that grouping is misleading. Bel Air and Holmby Hills sit inside the
Seventy-seven percent of adults 50 and older say they want to stay in the home they already own for the rest of their lives, a preference that has held steady for more than a decade according to AARP’s Home and Community Preferences Survey. Almost none of them, asked to picture that home, picture grab bars
A family in Beverly Hills spent four months choosing kitchen fixtures. Sconces, a linear pendant over the island, a champagne bronze finish that matched the hardware. Six weeks after move in, they called an electrician back. The pendant was centered on the island but off center from the sink window. The sconces had no dimmer,
A client recently asked us to add heated floors to a primary bathroom in a 1948 house in the Beverly Hills flats. It’s a reasonable, common request. But when we looked at the rest of the house, we found something more relevant: the home had no ducted heating system anywhere in it, just a scattering
By Nina Avetisova, Creative Director, Point Of Design Studio · Beverly Hills, CA Most home wellness room projects in Los Angeles start with a product: a sauna model, a cold plunge tub, a steam generator spec sheet pulled from a manufacturer’s website. Almost none of them start with the question that actually determines whether the