Labor of Love

Manhattan Beach designer Jill Johnson tells us how she remade a rental mess into her dream cottage, one room at a time.

 

Open shelving with coordinating dishes and glassware
Photographer Grey Crawford

Pulled Together

CL: With so many different spaces―nooks carved out of walkways, rooms of varying size―how did you give the interiors a cohesive look?

JJ: A lot of that has to do with my palette―I love blues and greens. There are just hints of color on the walls, and we clad the ceilings in white-painted V-groove. It's very soothing―not every room looks the same, because I varied the patterns throughout, but there is a unified effect.

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