ballonSTUDIO Featured in Homes & Gardens: Creating a Spa-Like Bathroom Retreat
In the Press | Homes & Gardens | February 10, 2024
Sabra Ballon, founder and principal designer of San Francisco-based luxury interior design firm ballonSTUDIO, was featured in Homes & Gardens in the article “How Can You Make a Bathtub More Relaxing? 8 Designers Share Their Top Styling Tips for a Spa-Like Space,” written by Abby Wilson.
The feature brings together eight interior design experts sharing their approaches to creating relaxing, spa-inspired bathrooms through thoughtful lighting, natural materials, color, and carefully considered details.
Ballon contributes her expertise on warm, serene color palettes and natural textures, recommending complementary hues, linen textiles, and abundant natural light to create bathrooms that feel both luxurious and inviting.
Her advice emphasizes the importance of combining calming design elements with visual interest, using texture, color, and natural light to create an elegant yet playful environment that encourages relaxation and rejuvenation.
The article also features a bathroom from ballonSTUDIO's City View Sanctuary project, photographed by James Carriere Studio, illustrating the studio's approach to refined, comfortable residential interiors.
The feature reflects ballonSTUDIO's design philosophy: creating highly personalized spaces where architectural details, quality materials, and thoughtful design contribute to beauty, comfort, and everyday living.
About ballonSTUDIO
Founded in 2003 by Sabra Ballon, ballonSTUDIO is a San Francisco luxury interior design firm specializing in high-end residential design, interior architecture, renovations, new construction, and boutique commercial and hospitality spaces. Known for its earthy modernism, fine art integration, and architecture-led approach, the studio creates timeless, highly personalized interiors for private homeowners, families, and estate clients. Serving San Francisco, Marin County, Palo Alto, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Santa Lucia Preserve, Carmel and Lake Tahoe, ballonSTUDIO combines more than 20 years of design expertise with discreet, highly collaborative, full-service project management from concept through installation.
