At nearly 10,000 square feet, spread across an expansive L shaped plan in Los Angeles, the residence could easily have leaned toward spectacle. Instead, its character unfolds gradually, through changing textures, softened transitions and rooms calibrated to different rhythms of family life. There is no singular statement moment. The atmosphere accumulates.
For designer Gianpiero Gaglione, founder of Gianpiero Gaglione Interior Design, that restraint was intentional.
“Our studio’s background in hospitality informed the approach throughout,” he explains. “Much like a well loved members’ club or boutique hotel, the home was designed to unfold gradually, revealing its character over time. Nothing announces itself; instead, the focus is on nuance — how a space feels as you move through it, and how it welcomes you back again and again.”
Originally heavily rooted in a country aesthetic, the house underwent a significant transformation. Expanded by roughly 2,000 square feet to accommodate three additional bedrooms for the family’s daughters, the project sought not reinvention for its own sake, but a recalibration: a softer, more contemporary sensibility capable of balancing elegance with ease.
Designed for a family with three daughters and anchored around everyday rituals of togetherness, the home privileges comfort without sacrificing material richness. The L shaped layout divides public and private life with subtle intelligence. One wing houses the family room and guest quarters, while another accommodates the daughters’ bedrooms and primary suite, creating what Gaglione describes as an architecture of intimacy and separation. Even large gatherings unfold naturally without disturbing quieter corners of domestic life, while every principal room maintains a connection to gardens and outdoor spaces at the centre of the plan.
“This home was envisioned as a place of warmth, depth, and quiet confidence, an interior shaped by feeling rather than spectacle,” Gaglione says. “The aim was to create spaces that feel settled and welcoming, where layers unfold naturally and daily life is not only accommodated but embraced.”
Light became one of the project’s earliest interventions.
“When we joined the project, the first thing that bothered me was the stairwell going up to the guest bedrooms,” the designer recalls. Originally enclosed, the stair interrupted sunlight from oversized windows, leaving the family room in shadow for much of the day. “By removing that wall and creating a void around the stairwell, it brought all this light down into the family room and really made the whole room.”
The family room, now the emotional centre of the house, gathers together a kitchen, breakfast nook, television lounge and bar into a single social landscape. Here, marble surfaces by Stoneland meet handmade textures and custom interventions, from a staircase crafted by Precise HB to layered seating including RH sectionals, Engel & Deutch armchairs and vintage finds sourced through 1stDibs. A chandelier by Soho Home hangs above the space, while fabrics by Nobilis soften the bar front, grounding moments of gathering in tactile richness.
The palette, meanwhile, resists the sterility often associated with contemporary Californian interiors.
“The brief was to make the home feel clean and airy,” Gaglione explains, “but I’m keen on the paint colors from Farrow & Ball because they have a depth to them that really grounds the space.” Throughout, shades including Bone and Oval Room Blue quietly anchor the interiors, while more expressive gestures emerge in guest rooms, powder spaces and the mudroom, where Brinjal walls meet patterned surfaces and Zia and Riad tiles introduce moments of visual play.
Materiality became a narrative in itself. Kitchens and bathrooms combine zellige tile and marble with plumbing fixtures from Waterworks and custom millwork in solid wood. Wallpapers from Cole & Son, Zak & Fox, Robert Kime and Phillip Jeffries introduce softness and movement, while handcrafted textiles become central to daily rituals, particularly in the breakfast nook, where custom upholstery by D&R Upholstery wrapped in A Rum Fellow fabrics creates a setting designed for lingering mornings.
“While mood imagery provides a starting point, it is the physical act of sourcing — touching fabrics, studying patterns, and layering materials — that gives a home its soul,” Gaglione says. “With our studio located just steps from the Pacific Design Center, we are fortunate to work in a tactile, intuitive way, allowing materials to guide the narrative.”
Elsewhere, formal rooms are deliberately dressed with greater ceremony. Vaulted ceilings transformed both the dining room and formal living room, introducing a sense of generosity to spaces furnished with an Arhaus dining table, Soho Home chairs, Artemest cabinetry and lighting by Visual Comfort. Kitchens centre around a La Cornue range paired with hardware by Ashley Norton and styling details from Olive Ateliers, balancing function with atmosphere.
Yet despite its scale, the house resists performance.
“Our designs are purposefully not shouty or too loud, but subtle and restrained,” Gaglione says. “Not trendy or edgy, but timeless and effortless.”
What emerges is a house designed not to impress immediately, but to settle gradually into memory: generous enough for celebration, quiet enough for ordinary rituals, and deeply attentive to the ways a family lives together over time.
