This home is a love letter to California living. Designed by Tammy Price of Fragments Identity for James and Kimberly Van Der Beek, this 1930s Spanish Colonial honors the ease of indoor/outdoor living. Tammy’s designs seamlessly connect the raw beauty of California and the comfort of a well-designed home. How did she do it? By layering in her iconic textiles and sticking to her signature color palette.
“I confess I’m something of a Fragments fangirl,” Kimberly told Architectural Digest. And the Van Der Beeks certainly aren’t the first boldface names to hire Tammy because they love her take on California-inspired boho living. (You can read our home tour with actress Abigail Spencer, who hired Tammy to bring her signature style to her Los Angeles home, here.)
Tammy’s signature pillows bring texture to the living room, while sheepskin elements add warmth. Kilim touches, like the highback vintage chair upholstered in a Berber kilim piece, add another layer of sophistication. She also opted to display one rug as art, placing it center stage over the fireplace. “That particular piece pulled the whole room together,” Tammy says.
The Van Der Beeks’ Beverly Hills home needed a designer’s touch. “Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture,” the Dawson’s Creek and What Would Diplo Do? star said. Tammy brought in new pieces from her signature collection and combined them with a selection of the Van Der Beeks’ existing furniture. She slipcovered their existing modular sofa and layered it up with warm-tone pillows, sheepskin accents, and cable-knit throws. “Those different layers bring the room alive,” Tammy tells us. “When you’re dealing with tonal things, bringing in the texture pulls it all together.”
Because the Van Der Beeks have young children and a love of outdoor living, durability was the most important part of Tammy’s design—but never at the cost of style. James and Kimberly asked Tammy to choose pieces that could seamlessly translate from one room to the next, even if the next was their patio. “It was important in everything we did,” Tammy says. “The pillows on the sofa in the living room can go to the outdoor, and the outdoor pillows can go to the indoor. I just want it to all play together.”
Tammy specifically chose textiles that could be used both indoors and out. “There was a lot of thought around this interaction of what could go outdoors,” she says.
And play together it did. Once Tammy wove her style throughout the Van Der Beek narrative, the Island of Misfit Furniture was no more. Warm tones brightened up the white walls and married nicely with wood architectural elements. Rattan, sisal, and vintage kilims facilitated an easy transition from indoor to out. And though the Van Der Beeks have since decamped to Texas, their love of rustic simplicity with a touch of boho sophistication remains.
James built this daybed for Kimberly after she gave birth to their daughter Gwendolyn. “It was my own personal triumph over dyslexia. When I was drawing up the plans, I kept worrying that I would transpose numbers and screw it all up, but it came out great,” he said. “Tammy wanted to feature it. She loved the daybed, so I loved her.” She stacked it high with her pillows and flanked with rattan furniture and one of her signature Shandong benches.
Tammy relied on natural materials to ease the flow between the indoor and outdoor spaces. In the dining room, she used vintage Berber tribal kilim textiles to add a layer of softness. “Those doors open right to the outdoor space and they’re open most of the time, so I feel like it needed to live together,” says Tammy.
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