By the beginning of 2024, Andy and Meredith Hurley had grown tired of the unpredictable weather in Portland, Ore., and could no longer resist the sunny allure of Los Angeles.
Mr. Hurley, 45, the drummer in the band Fall Out Boy, had already spent plenty of time working in California. And Ms. Hurley, 32, a vocalist in the band Millionaires, also happened to find a job in marketing at Emo Nite, a music event promoter based in Calabasas, Calif.
That January, the couple decided it was time to make a move. “Andy was in L.A. for work,” Ms. Hurley said. “He was FaceTiming me while going to open houses.”
After touring about six homes, Mr. Hurley found one in the neighborhood of Sherman Oaks. “As soon as I walked in, I knew it was the one,” he said.
He liked that the 4,445-square-foot house was divided into distinct rooms rather than one open floor plan. It was built in 2015, so it didn’t come with a long list of things that needed to be repaired or replaced. The couple bought it for $3.4 million and closed just after getting married that Valentine’s Day.
As for design, they viewed the interior as something of a blank canvas. “It was very plain and sterile looking,” Ms. Hurley said. “It was just white walls with black accents.”
She was more interested in all-out color and pattern, and she was already a fan of the Los Angeles-based interior designer Dani Dazey, whose energetic work she’d seen on the HBO Max streaming series “Trixie Motel.”
Ms. Hurley had even reserved a house that Ms. Dazey rents out on Airbnb for a friend’s birthday party. She loved the vivacious, brightly hued rooms: “I was looking around and was like, ‘Oh, my God.’” Hoping to give her own home a similar over-the-top color treatment, she hired Ms. Dazey to head up the design.
Mr. Hurley was initially uncertain about the direction. “To be honest, I was never a maximalist person,” he said. “I’ve always been a minimalist person. But I just trusted my wife.”
Ms. Dazey was excited to design an interior the couple would love. “Growing up, Fall Out Boy was one of my favorite bands, so I fan-girled a little bit,” she said. “It was a big, beautiful house, but so cold. It didn’t reflect my clients, who are very eclectic, cool, interesting, performer rock stars.”
One of the biggest challenges was that the Hurleys wanted the house decorated before they moved in over the summer, leaving only three months to complete the work.
Ms. Dazey and her husband and business partner, Phillip Butler, were up for the challenge, even as she began planning an interior full of custom elements. The resulting home, which is included in Ms. Dazey’s book “The Maximalist” (Abrams), published last month, doesn’t hold back.
To warm up the double-height living room, she divided the large expanses of white walls with black trim to give different areas distinct decorative treatments. She painted the top portion of the room green and added wallpaper with waves of color around the lower portion. She used other wallpapers to line a niche and set off Mr. Hurley’s collection of black guitars, which she hung above the fireplace as sculpture.
The Hurleys are vegans, owners of three dogs and general animal lovers, so they asked Ms. Dazey to add animalistic elements to the decoration. She responded with spaces like the dining room, where she installed a cheetah-patterned rug under a ceiling finished in cheetah-patterned wallpaper, near a credenza holding a pair of lamps with ceramic cheetah-shaped bases. For furniture, she mixed rattan peacock chairs with ones covered in upholstery depicting horses.
In many spaces, Ms. Dazey reduced costs and waste by reimagining elements that were already there. In the kitchen, she kept the existing cabinets but painted the fronts pink and green while adding coordinating floral wallpaper overhead. To transform the adjacent breakfast nook, she added a ruffled tablecloth with beachy cabana-inspired stripes over the existing table and wavy cushions on top of the banquette
In a den with mirrored niches containing built-in shelves, she gave the mirror a rosy tint with adhesive film. She painted the walls and ceiling red and pink, and added trim to frame neon signs that the Hurleys had purchased for their wedding.
Ms. Dazey took a break when the Hurleys moved in, then returned to design a home office for Ms. Hurley, a guest room and three additional bathrooms, which were completed last month. The total cost for both phases was about $240,000.
Now, “every room is different and almost its own art piece,” Ms. Hurley said.
Mr. Hurley, meanwhile, has emerged as a fan of maximalism. “It feels really good,” he said. “You walk in and you can’t help but be happy.”
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