Jenica
Giovanna
Interior Designer
Designing Your Next Chapter
For the Woman You’re Becoming
More Excavating, Less Decorating
Less, but Better
A free guide to make any room feel calmer, starting this weekend.
Notes on home, calm, and the next chapter.
A home built around how you actually live.
COMING HOME TO YOURSELF / COMe HOME TO YOURSELF
DESIGNING FOR WHO YOU’RE BECOMING / COME HOME TO YOURSELF / COME HOME TO YOURSELF
About
I design homes for women stepping into the next chapter of their lives. Not decorating. The deeper work of building a space that finally agrees with who you’re becoming.
I'm Jenica. For years I designed homes from a distance, my parents' kitchen from halfway across the world, a sister's place from another time zone, for people I knew so well I could see what they wanted before they could say it. That's the part I trust most in my work: getting to the real person, then building a home that fits her exactly.
Now I'm in Los Angeles, working as myself, with women I actually want to design for. Most of them are single, professional, and creative, with real life experience and the sense to know what matters now. We don't start with paint colors. We start with you. Who you were, who you are, and who you're becoming.
Approach
A room is never neutral. It's always nudging you toward tension or toward ease.
I design with the nervous system in mind. That can sound clinical. It isn't. It means I pay attention to what a room is doing to you before you've had a thought about it. The light. The temperature. What you see first when you walk in. How much is quietly asking for your attention.
Most rooms work against you in small ways, all day. I design them to work the other way, so the calm and focus and rest you're after have somewhere to land. None of this is a cure or a fix. It's an environment that finally agrees with you. Small signals, repeated daily, add up.
The Primer
The Primer
Los Angeles, CA
Lives In
Order Me
London Fog
Ask Me About
Sailing
Currently Reading
Tough Titties
Secret Talent
Rosemary Shortbread
Take My Money
Cookbooks
Favorite Place
On the Water
In My Spare Time
Watching Bravo
On Repeat
Reservoir Walks
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The Rule Book
01. Less, but better.
02. Beauty is a given. It's the floor, not the goal.
03. Everyone has a great story to tell.
04. We don't start with paint colors. We start with you.
05. A room is never neutral. It's always doing something to you.
06. When a room feels off, look at the light first.
07. One cleared surface can change a whole room.
08. Anyone can copy a design. Why would you?
09. Change your environment, change your life.
10. Champagne tastes best on a Tuesday.
“You helped me get my life back.”
— Anne, Waukesha, WI
“Jenica’s process put me completely at ease. She gets to know not just your needs but your DREAMS and goals, and she does the research to back it up. Thorough, curious, inspiring. Now I actually LOVE being HOME, in a space that’s functional, nourishing, and outright beautiful.”
— Oksana, Washington, DC
“I cannot wait to get into my kitchen every morning because I'm in heaven. You make me happy every day. This place changed my life. You changed my life!”
Notes on home, calm, and the woman you're becoming:
the spaces I make, and the thinking underneath them.
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