At Home with Kim Lapin: A Playful, Personality-Driven Family Home in Los Angeles
Overview
Interior designer Kim Lapin’s Los Angeles home is full of personality, layered and expressive, and designed for real life. With three young kids and a thriving design studio, she’s created a space that balances bold materials with everyday function, all while staying true to her own style. The home was recently featured in an episode of The Luxury Home Show, offering a closer look at how Kim’s design can still feel personal and lived in.
Brand
Kim Lapin Interiors
Type
Family Residence
Location
Los Angeles
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The house, originally a dark and dated Spanish-style property, has been reimagined with a much lighter touch. “It had good bones, but everything felt heavy,” Kim says. One of the first things to go was the wrought iron staircase, replaced with a chunky white oak version that now anchors the soft, airy entryway. The powder room just off the foyer is finished in moody charcoal Venetian plaster, one of many places where Kim leaned into materiality to make a statement.
Throughout the house, she plays with contrast: vintage mixed with new, polished with imperfect, bold with muted. In the formal living room, dubbed “the fancy room”, a dramatic green onyx fireplace becomes the focal point, flanked by vintage marble coffee tables she pieced together herself. “I like things that feel collected,” she says. “Not everything has to match or make sense. If you love it, it works.”
The pink-toned dining room walls were hand-tinted to just the right muted terracotta, flattering on skin tones, Kim notes. That sense of colour and softness carries into the kitchen, where she finally used a Calacatta Rosa stone she’d had her eye on for years. With its lavender, blush, and seafoam veining, it ties the space together while still feeling calm and neutral.
The family room takes a more relaxed approach, with low-maintenance materials and hidden storage for toys. “You have to be realistic when you have kids,” Kim says. “This isn’t a showroom, it’s where we live.”
Upstairs, bedrooms reflect the same thoughtful layering. Her daughter’s room is simple and sweet, with vintage Murano sconces and a soft built-in closet. The kids’ bathroom, wrapped entirely in blush zellige, feels like a playful nod to the rest of the house.
In the primary suite, plastered walls and a soft pastel palette create a quiet contrast. The bathroom is finished in silver travertine and lit by a pink Murano chandelier, a space that balances her love of feminine materials with the more grounded, architectural moments she’s known for.
The backyard is small but smartly used, with limestone pavers and a checkerboard tile detail around the spa. “We didn’t need to do much, just made it feel more like us,” she says. And that sentiment runs through the entire house. It’s not perfect, and it’s not trying to be. It’s personal.
“It’s a place we live in, work in, raise our kids in,” Kim says.
“And hopefully it shows people that you can have beautiful design and still live a real life inside it.”
Watch the full in-depth video tour on The Luxury Home Show.
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