Inside the colorful, over-the-top home of L.A.'s maximalist queen — and her fave tips

The eating country ceiling, adorned with an unexpected burst of orangish floral wallpaper, breathes caller beingness into the 100-year-old house. Similarly, the surviving room’s coral, pinkish and greenish wallpaper, the den’s bold bluish and yellowish stripes, and the reddish pattern-filled speakeasy lounge are delightful surprises that support you guessing what’s next.

Standing beneath a glittering tiered chandelier successful her pinkish “cloffice,” decorator Dani Dazey shares the essence of her colorful style: “From the wallpaper to the artwork, my location is simply a reflection of maine close now,” she explains. “It’s a idiosyncratic and hep twist connected accepted design.”

Rather than clasp rustic farmhouse benignant oregon minimalist Midcentury Modern plan arsenic is often the lawsuit successful Los Angeles, Dazey has taken the Highland Park location she shares with hubby Phillip Butler and fixed it an over-the-top maximalist spin.

Their location is proof, arsenic Dazey outlines successful her caller book, “The Maximalist: Colorful Interiors for Bold Living,” retired May 20, that our homes should marque america blessed by reflecting who we are. In Dazey’s case, that translates to bold color, lush textures and retro vibes.

“Throughout my career, my halfway connection has been to empower radical to beryllium who they are and not beryllium acrophobic to clasp the things they love,” said Dazey, 34.

From the outside, the couple’s location exudes a subtle charm. However, stepping done the beforehand doorway unveils a captivating burst of vibrant colour and Dazey’s signature angiosperm prints, each amazingly harmonious.

“I worked arsenic an apparel graphic decorator and I applied each that to interior design,” she said. “I cognize however to enactment each these things unneurotic and marque them look nice.”

Dazey designed the room to look similar an aged Italian villa.

“Curtains assistance the rooms not consciousness excessively cluttered and crazy,” said Dazey. “I tin marque everything precise cohesive. The 5th partition — the ceiling — it makes a large difference.”

The “fifth walls,” arsenic Dazey calls the ceilings, are painted agleam orange, reddish and turquoise blue. Floors are lined with vibrant greenish checkerboard patterns and wall-to-wall carpet. Likewise, the tract successful the backmost is decked retired successful checkerboard artificial turf. The speakeasy lounge, accessible done a hidden doorway sliding bookcase, is simply a ‘70s-inspired sanctuary with a modular sofa, curtains and wallpaper successful the aforesaid floral pattern. Underneath the surviving country ceiling, Dazey has created a plant-filled ledge that cascades implicit the eating room, adding a interaction of quality to the vibrant spaces.

Dazey outfitted the chairs, modular sofa from Joybird, wallpaper and curtains successful the aforesaid ‘70s-inspired pattern.

Everyone — including the couple’s 2 dogs, Franklin and Yuki, who luxuriate connected a pinkish velvet daybed successful the prima — is blessed here.

“Living successful a maximalist abstraction brings maine joy,” said Butler, who handles operations for Dazey’s interior plan concern and their Airbnb and Peerspace rentals. “Even conscionable looking astatine the ceiling makes maine happy.”

Like the Madonna Inn, wherever the mates precocious hosted their wedding, their location is “fun and quirky and thing but traditional,” Dazey said. “As a originative person, you get burned retired by doing the aforesaid happening implicit and implicit again.”

The mates discovered the 2,300-square-foot, two-story location connected a 3-acre batch 2 years ago. Dazey said determination wasn’t a batch of involvement successful the house, arsenic it featured an antithetic level program with a abstracted flat connected the archetypal level with its ain entrance. “The location blew america away,” she said, “but the unusual level program confused us.”

The location they purchased for $1.75 cardinal was “turnkey,” and Dazey had amusive adding skylights to the beamed ceilings successful the surviving country and redoing the room to consciousness similar an aged Italian villa. The mates worked rapidly implicit six months truthful that Dazey could stock her projects connected societal media. “Much of our enactment comes from societal media truthful having a task to stock was helpful. That’s a large portion of our occupation — creating these spaces.”

Dazey transformed the gravel driveway into an outdoor surviving abstraction with turf, a cowboy excavation and chaise lounges.

Her efforts paid off. The entrepreneurial mates present rents their home, on with a pinkish California bungalow and a bungalow successful Palm Springs, for personage photograph shoots and euphony videos. (Janelle Monáe, Camille Cabello and James Marsden person each been featured successful their rental homes.)

It’s a unsocial broadside hustle, and the couple’s occurrence is impressive. “They are specified fun, wacky rentals,” Dazey said. “Between our Palm Springs Airbnb and L.A. photograph shoots, we made $30,000 past period — our biggest period ever.”

Added Butler: “People archer america their kids emotion our houses.”

The home’s unconventional layout allows the mates to reside successful the adaptable abstraction downstairs portion renting retired the apical level for photograph shoots. Following the caller fires successful Los Angeles, they were capable to supply lodging for families successful request connected a monthly basis. “It’s been rewarding to beryllium capable to assistance successful this way,” Dazey shared.

Dazey grew up successful Lake Arrowhead successful the San Bernardino Mountains. Her parents were creative, encouraging Dazey and her sister to beryllium “colorful and prosecute successful creation and pursue” their passion. Not surprisingly, the household had a raspberry-colored kitchen. “My ma conscionable painted the cabinets successful her condo agleam yellow,” Dazey said. “It’s wacky. I admit it.”

After studying manner design, she made a sanction for herself successful Los Angeles arsenic a manner decorator for Dazey LA and, astir recently, arsenic an interior designer. She started her covering enactment with $4,000. Over 8 years it took disconnected connected societal media and she yet sold to stores including Anthropologie. “There were a fewer years wherever it astir grossed a cardinal dollars successful revenue,” she said. “It helped maine acquisition the Palm Springs house.” Still, she is champion known for her collaboration with resistance performer and vocalist Trixie Mattel connected the plan of the Trixie Motel successful Palm Springs.“Trixie’s aesthetic is akin to mine,” Dazey said with a laugh. “We some emotion agleam colors and florals and retro design.”

Dazey prefers to enactment connected the pinkish velvet daybed that fits the alcove disconnected of the surviving country similar a glove.

The collaboration opened doors for Dazey, including an accidental to plan her archetypal postulation of location textiles and wallcoverings for Spoonflower and a furnishings enactment for Joybird, which are featured successful her home. It besides attracted clients who admit her fun-loving aesthetic. She has since worked for Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy and TikTok prima Dylan Mulvaney. “I’ve been fortunate to enactment for cool, absorbing people,” Dazey said. “I deliberation that radical with a quirky consciousness of benignant and sensation are absorbing and dynamic.”

Despite her colorful interiors, Dazey knows what it’s similar to conflict successful a sterile enactment environment. “I utilized to enactment arsenic an apparel graphic decorator successful a firm bureau and didn’t consciousness inspired arsenic a originative person,” she said. “When I went retired connected my own, I worked successful java shops and I loved it.”

Today, she works retired of a wall-to-wall pinkish velvet alcove covered successful floral pinkish wallpaper and canine hair.

Dazey, pictured with Butler and their dogs Franklin and Yuki, believes successful designing spaces that marque radical happy.

“I’ve designed immoderate bureau spaces since past and effort to marque offices consciousness similar a surviving room,” she said. “It tin impact you creatively and inhibit your productivity. Now that I enactment from home, I emotion it.”

When asked what it’s similar surviving with a maximalist, Butler said helium trusts his wife’s instincts. “She went moving with colour erstwhile we got our archetypal spot unneurotic successful Beachwood Canyon. It took a small limb twisting, but it each made consciousness erstwhile I saw it each travel together. I learned to spot her process. There hasn’t been a azygous task wherever it hasn’t worked for me.”

Dazey, having shifted her absorption from manner plan to creating blessed interiors, sees the 2 processes arsenic profoundly transformative. “In my originative journey, whether it’s manner oregon interiors, I’ve discovered the powerfulness of self-expression. It’s astir defining who you are and sharing that with the world. The close outfit tin alteration your full day, conscionable arsenic the enactment of decorating your location tin importantly interaction your comfort, productivity and happiness. I emotion relaying that connection — self-expression is much meaningful than aesthetics.”

“The Maximalist” features 16 of Dazey’s plan projects, including respective that person ne'er been seen before, specified arsenic a colorful mansion successful Alabama.

The Dazey Dream House tips & tricks

(Excerpted from “The Maximalist: Colorful Interiors for Bold Living,” Abrams).

The aged one-two punch

When mixing prints, I ever similar to deliberation of a superior and secondary print. The superior is the main quality print, which is much analyzable and illustrative. The secondary is the companion people — thing little bold and usually a antithetic scale.

Get immoderate plants already!

A houseplant adds colour and makes a abstraction consciousness much homey without making immoderate drastic changes to immoderate of the walls. Plants respire literal beingness into a abstraction and assistance it consciousness complete. If your rooms don’t person immoderate greenery successful them, get yourself to your section works store — stat!

Make your location a gallery

This location is bursting with my idiosyncratic plan — and it feels truthful good. People are often hesitant to show their ain artwork, but I accidental usage the walls of your location to broadcast your creativity.

Stripes chopped sweetness

I designed immoderate almost-old-fashioned floral wallpapers for this house, but they’re often purposefully paired with a stripe. A strong, graphic pattern, similar a stripe oregon a check, has the powerfulness to temper the sweetness of a floral-y-print.

Double the fun

Half walls abound successful this location due to the fact that I wanted to max retired my opportunities for signifier and colour play. Adding a fractional partition to a country successful your location is simply a large mode to commencement experimenting with plan connected a much analyzable level.

Appreciate the chamber set

Matching chamber sets person a precise 1980s estimation (and not successful a bully way!), but if the furnishings is cool, a coordinate acceptable tin beryllium a astute strategy to assistance a maximalist chamber consciousness much uniform.

Reconsider wall-to-wall

I americium predicting a carpet comeback. People emotion rugs, truthful wherefore not see a wholly carpeted room? Everything successful plan circles backmost around, and I deliberation wall-to-wall is owed to beryllium done successful a caller way.