IN JUST FIVE YEARS, interior designer Sarah Sherman Samuel has amassed an obsessive following. With a slew of high-profile renovations (Mandy Moore, Garance Doré) and sold-out collabs (Semihand-made, Cedar & Moss, Concrete Collaborative, Lulu and Georgia), her layered California-cool aesthetic is now a mainstay on just about everyone’s Instagram feed. “My career in Los Angeles was suddenly going crazy,” Samuel affirms. “But I realized I was designing dream homes for everyone except myself.” Indeed, by the end of 2017, her family had outgrown their 1,400-square-foot 1940s bungalow in Venice Beach (as well as their much-photographed one-bedroom A-frame vacation house in Palm Springs), and, with the arrival of their second child, Clover, Samuel and her husband, Rupert, had even given up their master bedroom to be used as a nursery. It…
