This Spanish-style home in Santa Fe expertly blends old and new – take a look inside
Interior designer Stephanie Parisi invites us inside her Spanish-style home in Santa Fe, where new and antique finds blend seamlessly.
As Seen In
(Image credit: Stephanie Parisi Studio/Fred Licht Photography)
It takes an expert eye to take an authentic Spanish-style home and sympathetically update it to reflect modern-day living. The interiors need to celebrate those living in it, function for the way they live, yet retain the exquisite architecture that makes the property unique – and that’s no easy feat.
In this Southern Californian home – which belongs to interior designer Stephanie Parisi and her fiancé – dark, overfilled rooms needed to be reimagined into an open, bright space while retaining the original details.
The beauty of this project was that, unlike designing the interiors for a client, Stephanie could fill the space with anything she wanted, and create a space that truly feels like home. Here, she welcomes us inside to showcase the beautiful transformation of her Spanish-style home.
‘The home has an authentic Spanish Colonial architectural layout and was built around a central enclosed courtyard. There were many charming details in place before the recent transformation – many of which were made by artisans and imported from Mexico – but was used excessively, thus giving the home a sort of heavy and busy appearance,’ says Stephanie Parisi.
