Rustic ELEGANCE

Cozy textures, elegant vintage pieces and farmhouse simplicity come together in this Los Angeles home.

- By Laura Shimko | Photography by Bret Gum

In this beautiful 5,500-square-foot home located in a quiet equestrian neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, blogger Karen Snyder of Sanctuary Home Decor and her husband have transformed their 1960s ranch-style house into a sophisticated yet cozy farmhouse cottage. With a background in real estate, event design and photography, Karen started her blog and Instagram account seven years ago as an experiment. "I wanted to try something new," she says. "I wanted to find something I loved spending time doing." Home décor and design seemed like the perfect transition given her combined interests, and she named her blog Sanctuary Home Decor after her belief that home should look and feel like a sanctuary. "What really inspires me is creating spaces that bring a sense of peace and joy to whoever is in them," she says. "It is not just the way a room looks, but the way you experience it."

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