“To be honest, I feel like a lot of people say that they go through a lot of different designers sometimes, and then you’re in a house that doesn’t feel like it’s yours,” she tells AD. “Now, it feels like me, and it has been so enjoyable to be in it.”
And in an ironic twist of fate, Shay revealed that she was perhaps destined to live in this particular LA home, having pinned the kitchen to one of her Pinterest boards.
“I remember that the agent sent me a link, and I realised the kitchen was the same that I had saved from years before,” she says. “Once I walked inside, I fell in love.”
Designed with the help of interior decorator Chad Wood, Mitchell re-cast the historic home as a cosy, liveable space that mixes old and new elements.
Take a look at Shay’s home below: