Small spaces surprise and shine at the 2026 Pasadena Showcase House of Design

Designers Jeanine Hattas Wilson and Julie Hattas Kennedy’s magical translation of a 4-foot-by-4-foot retention closet astatine this year’s Pasadena Showcase House of Design astir feels similar a metaphor for plan showcases themselves: not rather real, but axenic fantasy.

“It was inspired by our dad, who utilized to work to america successful Woodstock, Ill.,” Wilson says of their immersive storybook escape, which features a delightful hand-painted mural connected the walls and tiny lanterns that, erstwhile touched, connection a narrated fairy tale. “We wanted to make a special, intimate abstraction for kids.”

Showhouses are ever extravagant, and this year’s lawsuit takes spot wrong the 8,000-square-foot erstwhile location of Clara Baldwin Stocker, girl of onshore capitalist and racehorse breeder Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin. Like her father, Stocker was known for her colorful property and emotion of lavish things, including parties that lasted for days. (Baldwin Stocker’s 1929 obituary noted that retired of her $10-million estate, astir $1.5 cardinal was jewelry, “the postulation and wearing of which was her hobby.”)

Many of the 30 revamped interior and exterior spaces successful the 1907 shingle-style location see details Baldwin Stocker would person loved. The Midnight Garden Dining Room by the House of Pontovi, for example, has an Italian Murano solid chandelier, feminine Art Deco-style swivel chairs with flapper-style fringe and a gold-leaf ceiling that has replaced Calico Corners fabric. The Entertainment Room by Studio Joshua features connection lighting by Los Angeles decorator Jason Koharik, an 11 Ravens customized billiards array and a Champagne cooler built into the marble bar.

And the Bloom Lounge by the Art of Room Design is truthful ample that it tin accommodate respective antithetic seating areas, a crippled array and a hidden liquor furniture — different motion to Baldwin Stocker, who was besides known arsenic “the Diamond Princess.”

It’s hard to determine what stands retired much astatine the Baldwin Oaks Estate successful Arcadia: the layered interiors that look acceptable for a structure magazine, oregon the smaller spaces, similar the closets, mudroom and hidden pulverization rooms that person been transformed into thing special.

Here are a fewer examples of what to expect astatine the event, which supports younker euphony programs passim Los Angeles County.

The Enchanted Room by Hattas Studios

Identical twins Hattas Wilson and Hattas Kennedy of Hattas Studios transformed a tiny 4-by-4-foot retention closet into a magical wood with their hand-painted mural depicting characters from stories similar “Cinderella,” “The Little Mermaid” and “The Frog Prince.” A young Clara Baldwin appears with her dog, Lucky. You tin interaction the tiny lanterns to perceive a communicative successful each country oregon simply curl up successful the brushed greenish fuzzy chair, adjacent the velvet curtains and fto your imaginativeness wander.

Laundry and Craft Room by Arterberry Cooke Architecture

Architect Barrett Cooke turned laundry into a pleasance successful this beauteous room, which doubles arsenic a trade country outfitted with caller rose-colored cabinets, playful circular Fireclay Tile, quartzite countertops and stunning views of the San Gabriel Mountains. “I straddled making it utilitarian with however beauteous it tin be,” Cooke said of the section artists represented, including ceramics by Jen King, stained solid by Molly Miller, lipid paintings by Lareina Holsopple and a people by section creator and Jungalow decorator Justina Blakeney. “The creation ties it each together.”

The vault successful the Family Parlor Room by Jamie Loren Home

The household country is the lone abstraction with a television, but with a mah-jongg table, the TV hardly seems necessary. “We wanted to make a country wherever the household tin congregate,” said decorator Jamie Loren, describing the cozy parlor painted successful the colour Viridian Odyssey by Dunn-Edwards Paints. She besides turned what utilized to beryllium a weapon closet into a “vault” filled with household heirlooms, including a typewriter, perfume, photos, jewelry and a flask. “This is an ode to Clara,” she said.

Powder Room by Rebecca J. Hansen Design Studio

Details marque each the quality successful the tiny pulverization country by Rebecca J. Hansen, who explains that some the country and the adjacent vestibule are focused connected mixing patterns portion keeping a accordant colour palette. Hansen chose patterned terra-cotta tile from Foothill Tile & Stone Co. successful Pasadena for the walls, and conscionable outside, she utilized wallpaper from House of Hackney with mythical animals. Brass hardware from Corston Architectural Detail, chalk pastels and bold wood trim painted a marigold colour brought everything together. “It feels similar I’m successful a castle successful England,” she said.

The 2nd level landing by Blue Brick Design

Designer Lara Hovanessian has transformed the foyer walls of some the archetypal and 2nd floors into a striking show for section artists Blakeney, Susanna Speirs Ali and Lareina Holsopple. The spaces diagnostic the recently released Huntington Collection partition covering by Morris & Co. successful the iconic Strawberry Thief motif, pinkish ceilings and Alberto Giacometti-style lighting from Visual Comfort.

The Mudroom by Gex Designs

Inspired by the shingles of the 1907 home, Noelle Gex Djokovich, known for past year’s playful flower-cutting room, has reimagined this abstraction with customized cabinets, patterned floors and charming details specified arsenic a canine bed, a Lewis & Wood cloth skirt and a rag rug from Nickey Kehoe. “Adding layers to a tiny country makes you consciousness bully erstwhile you travel home,” she said.

The Magnolia Room by Cordrey Collection

Designer Steven Cordrey says the Magnolia wallpaper reflects his Southern roots and the Phillip Jeffries grasscloth connected the walls is applicable (“It’s casual to clean,” Cordrey says). He besides likes to bring the outdoors in, pointing to the views of the estate’s expansive oaks and excavation from the second-floor bedroom. There’s a hidden interaction too: Rock Zehler’s stylish dressing room, inspired by Art Deco and the 1970s, has a concealed closet tucked down a pouch door.