Daniella Southgate’s Redcliff project is a home in the Silverlake Hills, built in 1974. It was remodeled recently for an open concept layout, the perfect combination of new and old.

The clients hired Daniella Southgate for interior design just as they were closing escrow. The busy young family, who work in tech, wanted to create something unique, bringing vintage vibes to their very contemporary home. They craved bold dark color, an unusual choice for an open concept layout in California. But with an abundance of sunlight streaming in, the house never lost its indoor-outdoor vacation vibes. Daniella designed several key custom pieces for her clients, including their dining table, banquette, master headboard, and “grandma” sofa with a bold tree of life print in a cuddle corner for reading books. Art and accessories sourced by Daniella on her travels, either leaned into the 1970’s era of the house, such as a political protest poster in the entrance dated the same year the house was built, and a vintage black and white photo of a Concord plane, found in Lisbon, or they leaned into vintage vibes from the 20’s and 30’s, such as an original Josephine Baker poster found in San Francisco, and the entry rug from a Parisian flea market. Curves in the furniture pieces and botanical prints were used to soften the mostly angular architecture and play against the type of what one expects to see in such a modern home. In the end, the clients were delighted to have a design mix all their own, vintage and modern, dark and sunlit, sophisticated, but family friendly.