Award-Winning Interior Design · Los Angeles · Miami · New York
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She designs it and builds it. One vision,
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Award-Winning Interior Design · Los Angeles · Miami · New York
She designs it and builds it. One vision,
from blueprint to installation.
Joelle Uzyel is a Beverly Hills interior designer with a real estate development background. The studio is based in 90210 and runs design-build from first concept through install. French Modern interiors built into the architecture. $250M+ portfolio. Featured in Architectural Digest, Elle, and WSJ. Full renovations in this market typically run $500K to $5M and up.
The Direct Answer
Hiring an interior designer in Beverly Hills is a construction job as much as a design job. The city reviews its own permits. Trousdale protects height and views. Landmarked houses go through Cultural Heritage. Full renovations at this level typically run $500K to $5M and up, and a whole-home project on a 5,000 to 10,000 square foot primary residence commonly lands $1.5M to $5M. This practice is based in 90210, designs and builds under one studio, and has completed $250M+ in residential work.
This Market
The architecture is not one style. On the Flats it is Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival, often with a public elevation the city expects you to keep. In Trousdale it is mid-century and single-story, organized around glass and a protected view. In BHPO it is hillside and canyon, where drainage and the drive decide the plan before anyone talks about a sofa. Bel Air and Holmby Hills add estate scale and, often, an art collection the interior has to serve.
The climate is its own specification list. Canyon sun fades fabric and bleaches stone at the pool. Indoor-outdoor living is not a terrace added later. It is the plan. Hillside drainage and retaining walls are design decisions, not items the contractor invents mid-build. Materials are chosen to take that exposure: plaster, limestone, herringbone stone, metals that hold, woods specified so they do not move once the house is lived in.
The review process is slower than clients expect and faster when the drawings are complete. Significant residential work commonly sits with the city for 3 to 9 months. Projects that skip design to get to demolition sooner consistently lose that time and more. The first conversation belongs with the designer, before a contractor frames a kitchen that then has to be undone.
Paul Trousdale's mid-century plateau above Sunset. Single-story estates, protected view corridors, and some of the strictest height limits in the city. Interiors have to work horizontally. The glass and the canyon do the volume. The rooms stay low, quiet, and current without breaking the line the neighborhood was built on.
The tree-lined streets below Sunset. Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival estates, many with a public face the city expects you to keep. Full renovations that honor the street elevation and gut the plan behind it, so a 1920s house lives like a current home without reading as a replica.
BHPO. Larger lots, canyon and hillside conditions, longer drives, and more of the house organized around drainage, access, and the view. These projects start with the site, not the furniture. The interior has to hold the scale of the lot without going cold.
Gated estates on larger lots, often taken to the studs. A darker, quieter material language against Italian marble and custom wood. Neighboring Holmby Hills is treated the same way when the interior is built around an art collection: gallery-quality light, restrained palettes, rooms that hold their own against the work on the walls.
The practice is based in Beverly Hills and works throughout the city, including Trousdale Estates, the Flats, and Beverly Hills Post Office, along with neighboring Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Brentwood, and Pacific Palisades.
Beverly Hills is its own city, with its own planning department, and among the strictest residential reviews in California. Full structural work needs architectural drawings and city approval. Hillside and Trousdale projects add height and view-corridor rules. Designated houses go through Cultural Heritage. A real estate development background since 2011 means the drawings and the contractor coordination sit in one studio, which is what keeps that process moving.
In this market, full home renovations at this level typically cost $500K to $5M and up. Whole-home work on a 5,000 to 10,000 square foot primary residence commonly lands $1.5M to $5M depending on scope and finish. Kitchens commonly run $150K and up and bathrooms $75K and up at this standard of finish. Design fees are scope-based and discussed at the first consultation.
From first meeting through installation, a full home typically runs 18 to 36 months. Permitting alone often takes 3 to 9 months. Active construction after approvals is commonly 9 to 18 months. Kitchens run 12 to 24 weeks and bathrooms 10 to 16 weeks once the house is ready for those trades.
Yes. This is a design-build practice. The design, the city approvals, and the construction coordination run through one studio, so there is a single point of accountability from the first concept to the final install.
Both. The practice works on full renovations, gut renovations to the studs, and ground-up new construction, along with individual rooms when the scope is right.
Yes. Depending on the project, the engagement may run directly, alongside a project architect, or with an existing contractor. The structure is set at the first meeting.
Trousdale is a mid-century hillside neighborhood with protected views and tight height limits. The work stays single-story and horizontal. The Flats are the tree-lined streets below Sunset, mostly Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial estates, where the public elevation often has to be kept and the plan behind it is what changes. They are different construction problems, not just different zip-code language.
A real estate development background. She grew up on job sites and reads construction documents, permit processes, and contractor coordination as core expertise, not an add-on. French Modern interiors built into the architecture, not decorated on after. $250M and more in completed projects, featured in Architectural Digest, Elle, and the Wall Street Journal.