Chad Wood is a Los Angeles-based interior designer and hairstylist known for his broad expertise in cutting, coloring, and style. He has collaborated on campaigns for brands such as Murad, Nike, and ColourPop. He has also worked with celebrity clientele including Jessica Alba, Mila Kunis, Vanessa Hudgens, Tate McRae, Olivia Munn, Bella Hadid, Hailey Baldwin, Ashley Benson, Hannah Davis, Kate Walsh, Amber Valletta, and Sophia Bush.
Wood's design style is characterized by a unique blend of vintage finds and modern touches, creating spaces that are both elegant and comfortable. He emphasizes collaboration with his clients, ensuring that each home reflects their personal tastes and lifestyles.
One notable collaboration is with actress Shay Mitchell, where Wood helped reimagine her West L.A. home. Mitchell had, in her mid-20s, pinned the kitchen to one of her Pinterest boards. “I remember that the agent sent me a link, and I realized the kitchen was the same that I had saved from years before,” she says. “Once I walked inside, I fell in love.”
The Pretty Little Liars star-alongside designer Chad Wood-crafted a home that is finally the perfect fit. It seems predestined that Pretty Little Liars’ Shay Mitchell would come to reside in this glamorous 1920s house on Los Angeles’s West Side.
She first decorated the home in 2016, but she has since transitioned the interiors to be more reflective of her tastes-and, to welcome her partner, Matte Babel, and their daughter, Atlas, into the space. “To be honest I feel like a lot of people say that they go through a lot of different designers sometimes, and then you’re in a house that doesn’t feel like it’s yours,” she shares. “Now, it feels like me, and it has been so enjoyable to be in it.”
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For this, she recruited interior decorator Chad Wood, who first redefined the interiors by bleaching and resurfacing the redwood floors. “Chad realized that I went toward light wood furniture, so he forced me to have the floors changed,” shares Mitchell. “This really set the tone for everything else in the house. The best thing I ever did with the house was changing the floors-but maybe not two months before having a kid!”
Key Elements of Chad Wood's Design Style
- Vintage Finds: Wood incorporates reclaimed pieces and items sourced from estate sales and secondhand markets to add character and history to spaces.
- Lighting: He has an affinity for lighting, specifically chandeliers, which is what we designed the rooms around.
- Collaboration: Wood values working closely with clients to ensure their personal tastes are reflected in the design.
- Mixing Materials: He expertly blends different textures and materials to create a cohesive and visually interesting environment.
- Monochromatic Rooms: Monochromatic rooms are used to create a cohesive and calming look.
Inside Shay Mitchell’s Mediterranean-Inspired Home
Shay Mitchell’s 1920s Spanish-style home is a unique and well-traveled masterpiece. In a thoughtful move, she spontaneously brings designer and friend, Chad Wood, into the video a few minutes in, making her one of the only celebrities to feature the interior designer she worked with. The two make clear that the house is a collaborative and ongoing project.
These frequent changes are never portrayed as a burden. Instead, Mitchell’s detailed explanation of each room’s history makes clear this home is a labor of love. The design pair’s most impressive talent, however, lies in mixing materials. Gauzy curtains, cracked leather, white marble, gold mirrors, wooden candlesticks, leafy plants, wicker baskets, and a literal tree stump all in just one room might be overkill in the hands of any other design duo, but Mitchell and Wood manage to create a home that is grand but not uncomfortable, detailed but not overcrowded.
One of the living spaces is light-filled, featuring reclaimed pieces (the bench, for example, was discovered in the house’s gardens). The hanging light is from Marrakech. Mitchell shares: “A chandelier would have been really expected. I wanted something different.”
The other living space has embraced a moodiness-a sexiness, even-starting with the Farrow & Ball Down Pipe paint. “For me, I couldn’t have a house that’s one color,” she comments. “I like the rooms to be different and emote different things when I walk into them.” The furnishings include a dark green velvet couch plus Moroccan touches (like a rug from Lawrence of La Brea). “I wanted it to feel soft and welcoming and warm,” she shares. “Something about velvet makes me feel cozy.”
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The kitchen meanwhile-the one that Mitchell discovered on Pinterest before she was in the market for her dream home-is monochromatic, with marble counters and black and white cabinets. In the back, a white-tiled wall features a grand arch that leads to a terrace through French doors.
The kitchen of actor Shay Mitchell’s West L.A. home-which she recently reimagined alongside designer Chad Wood-is classic and clean-lined, thanks to marble-covered counters and stainless steel fixtures. The hanging lights were sourced from RH. Through the kitchen and breakfast nook, there is an intimate terrace, which boasts French doors and lush greens.
On the second floor, Mitchell’s daughter’s room is painted in Farrow & Ball’s Sulking Room Pink. Atlas’s brass crib is crowned with black-and-white pictures of her parents. “These are all photos that we had taken over the years while traveling,” Mitchell shares. “It’s always wonderful to have lovely people but also to have places that you’ve been to. Especially, with her name being Atlas, it goes hand in hand with all these places that she’s been already without her knowing.”
Chad Wood's Tips for Entertaining
According to Jessica Alba and Chad Wood, here are some tips on how to set up the perfect bar:
- Work with the space that you have.
- Everything needs to be on dimmers.
- Use candles.
- Flowers throughout the entire house.
- Mixing metals is very in.
- Get the biggest shaker you can.
- Use garnish as the identifier.
Chad Wood tends to lean toward a clean, sleek look, while incorporating the most beautiful vintage finds. This home reflects just that. It’s sleek, clean, and bright with the coziest breakfast nook.
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The dusty pink and white with gold and rattan accents are sweet, calming and any little girl’s dream. Chad and Shay’s collaboration on this project is perfect. With her personality and his style, the entire house is a mix of old and new, light and dark and modern and classic.
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