Obsessed: Tobi Tobin Design

Ok, where have I been?

While studying the most recent issue of House Beautiful, I stumbled upon rock star designer Tobi Tobin and her beautiful Hollywood Hills Farm House.

I couldn’t get enough of it. 

The pages already worn out. At first I thought maybe Tobi was a boy until I stalked looked up her website and was like wow, this chic is all that AND a bag of chips (packaged inside a beautiful black and gold bag of course).

rock on sister

I love it when this happens.
Because its kind of rare these days.
A motivational jolt, when I come across a spread that makes me mad crazy to reinvent my home. I was home only a few hours before I started inventorying every piece I could paint high gloss black, including my kitchen island…maybe. I learned from the best, Alessandra Branca, that every room needs one black piece to ground it. I just didn’t think to use the advice in my own home.

I was recently contemplating a story idea titled “inspired by”, a fun little exercise listing my favorite designers and photos, that when witnessed all together, would help me bring it home around here.  Tobi fits into this finely-tuned web quite nicely. She’s a little bit Erin Martin, Steven Schubel and rock and roll. She loves mirrors as much as Myra Hoefer does. And coincidentally, those were the last three designer spreads I went gaga over in magazine land, over a 12 month span :-(.  I wonder what it is that attracts us to certain styles? We’ll take that deep dive later. For now let’s take a look…

For years I criticized myself for having too many mirrors in my house, thinking it was not all that creative and a little bit vain until I stumbled upon Myra Hoefer’s gorgeous home and now Tobins. Au contraire mon fraire! The more mirrors you have, the more light, the more reflection and the more energy moving around…

Did I lose you on that last one about the energy? 🙂
I’m kind of a feng shui-er.
A lot of their principals have just stuck with me in my design mantra. Let’s face it, ever been somewhere and you just can’t relax, feel anxious or the lights are way too bright? That’s kind of feng shui friends. BTW the last one is the killer…WHY, WHY the bright light? Wanna kill a mood or a party? Turn every light on and don’t install dimmers. Goes without saying right? Hah! You’d be surprised. I won’t a. go to a restaurant where the light is too bright or b. sit in a section of the restaurant where the light is too bright.

Coo coo ca-choo.

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