Heather KW Styles

Every home deserves a real entrance ✨

This one had an identity crisis. Swipe to the befores and you’ll see where we started.

You walked in to a split-level landing caught between two elevation changes — one ahead, one to the side — with the front living room acting as little more than overflow. It wasn’t a room. It wasn’t really an entry. It was just a landing you couldn’t decorate your way out of.

So we didn’t just decorate it. We designed it into its own moment that greets you when you walk in every day and offers a ton of storage for this busy family!

Closing that back wall gave us a full custom built-in entry — shoe storage, a landing zone, a real moment of arrival. Turn left into the new open-plan kitchen and we kept that same thinking: a shallow-depth cabinet tucked in to organize the transition and make use of every single inch.

No wasted space. No default solutions. Just a home that finally works the way it should.

Project Julian | Entry + Kitchen Reveal No. 2
Photography: Charlotte Lea Bailey
Interior Design: Heather KW Styles | Los Alamitos, CA
Photoshoot Styling: LE MO
Serving Long Beach, Orange County + surrounding Southern California

No two weeks as an interior designer look quite the same — but most of them look a little like this.

Project Monlaco, Project Ellis, Project Leri, and everything in between. Floor plans, finish pulls, a couple of site walks, and the behind-the-scenes that usually just lives in my stories for a day before it disappears.

So I’m starting to park these here on the feed instead. These are a slightly different set of the weekly recap photos but a real look at what a week of full-service design actually looks like — the drafting, the selections, the job sites, the swatches that didn’t make the cut.

Which slide’s your favorite? 👇

Project Shipway came to me for a kitchen. They left with a beautiful new kitchen and also two new living rooms they’d been ignoring for years.

The downstairs space was massive, beautiful, and completely wasted — used mostly as a hallway to the pool. So I designed an 11-ft custom bar with chunky posts to act as a soft wall: defines the space, anchors a real seating arrangement, and still lets light pour through from the family room behind it. Now the front door opens to a clean sightline straight through to the backyard, not the back of a couch.

Clients love to entertain. House now agrees.

This is the work I’m proudest of — when a kitchen project turns into the answer to a question my clients didn’t even know they were asking.