I spent years collecting the Disneyland attraction poster reproductions from eBay and the Disneyland Gallery’s Print-On-Demand system. I had custom mats cut and gathered frames during Aaron Brothers’ 1-Cent sales.

The gold plant stand was a housewarming gift from my aunt when I got my first apartment. The foyer’s three pendant lights are from West Elm.

The vintage slipper chair is the first piece of furniture I ever purchased.

The brass and malachite pulls are by jeweler Addison Weeks.

We weren’t crazy about the bifold doors at first, but we soon realized they are essential to keeping Nacho, The Cat With No Sense of Self-Preservation, from running down the stairs and gorging on all our plants!

I needed to find a place to use this impossibly impractical silk fabric I’d fallen in love with, so I opted for the least-used seat in the house: the piano stool!

Patrick was not a fan of the giant dance-studio-style mirror, so Leslie suggested toning it down with a console, lamp and stools.

I’m slightly embarrassed about not having a glamorous coffee table here. But the sole purpose of this room is putting up our feet and watching movies, so we had to go for comfort. Nacho doesn’t care either way!

We collect art prints every year at Comic Con, but none of the artists release large-scale prints. So we created a tryptic out of three smaller pieces by one of our favorites, Pascal Campion.

I found the ceramic whippet I call “Devo” at Circa Who in Palm Beach. Patrick has a side gig repairing Devo’s tail every time Nacho knocks over the fireplace screen.

The Martinique banana leaf wallpaper has been a Holy Grail item for me ever since I spotted it in the coffee shop of the historic Ambassador Hotel, which I got to tour right before it was torn down. You may also recognize the wallpaper from the Beverly Hills Hotel and the set of The Golden Girls.

I wish I could hide all four of the apartment’s hideous gas wall heaters behind folding screens like this one. At least we were able to refinish the worst offenders with high-heat engine paint.

I designed the media credenza to hold our home theater system and record collection, including cord cutouts in the back and a turquoise-lacquered interior. We had it built by a local craftsman for less than the price of a new credenza.

My biggest embarrassment is Joan Crawford-esque plastic on every part of our upholstered furniture that Nacho can get his jaws around. We spent hours pinning it to all the upholstered furniture in the house after the cat savaged our old couch.

We try to confine our Disney Crazy to this corner of the house… And the entryway… And the Haunted Bathroom…

We weren’t sure what to do with this awkward corner of the living room until we hit on the idea of creating a reading nook. Don’t worry, earthquake watchers—Patrick’s collection of Muppet busts is secured with museum gel!

The figures of cast members from each land at Disneyland are by Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily. The colorful monsters are Beastlies by Leslie Levings. The “Rumba Pencils” animation cell was drawn by my dad for the Sesame Street short he directed in 1974. (That’s him in the photo on the shelf below with the half-shriveled Mickey balloon!)

I fell in love with these inexpensive curtains on Overstock.com, but they were too short. So I bought an extra set and had a seamstress use it to extend them to the correct length.

Nacho demonstrates the deterrent power of plastic furniture covers.

The original gato travieso.

The Heywood-Wakefield dining table and “dog biscuit” chairs were found on Craigslist. The walls are covered in Phillip Jeffries Manila Hemp grasscloth.

I designed the chandelier with help from Leslie’s styrofoam mockup and had it created by Lucent Lightshop on Etsy.

The candelabrum is a Florence Broadhurst design, and the monogrammed napkins are by Leontine Linens.

We spend most weekends hunting mealybugs and scale in our beleaguered Giant Bird of Paradise plants.

Some of the Jonathan Adler pieces we’ve collected via eBay can be seen on the dining room’s built-in shelves.

All of the art in the dining room is reproduction Mary Blair concept art for Disney rides and movies.

A trio of Mary Blair concepts for the never-built Western River Expedition attraction planned for Magic Kingdom.

All of the art in the breakfast nook is reproduction concept art for Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room and the never-built “Legends of the Enchanted Island” animatronic show for the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the 1964 World’s Fair.

I found the vintage barkcloth curtain panels being sold as yardage on Etsy and had them turned back into curtains.

I wanted to paint the lower kitchen cabinets navy or teal, but I thought black would hide the dishwasher and stove better. The blue ceiling makes up for it though! We also covered the peeling particle-board countertop next to the stove with a polished marble remnant.

I also wanted to paint the window muntins black. Instead, I applied removable black tape and replaced the silver window screens with black ones.

I asked our wallpaper hanger to apply remnants of the master bathroom’s Schumacher Chiang Mai Dragon wallpaper to the backs of the kitchen cupboards, and it makes me smile every time I open them.

My weaknesses are vases, light fixtures and wallpaper. When I fell in love with Cole & Son’s Aldwych Albemarle wallpaper, the laundry room was the last available place to put it!

Patrick covered half of one wall in the hallway with magnetic paint so we could use rare-earth magnets to display our extensive collection of art prints. It allows us to rotate the art frequently and eliminates the need for expensive framing or holes in the wall. I have a How-To guide here!

When we moved in, the landlords helped us remove approximately 85 bazillion sets of mismatched, ill-fitting louvred doors, including one that only partially covered these shelves and was the first thing you saw upon entering the bedroom. I designed the bi-fold doors and had them created by Mike Z Designs.

The oversized brass knobs from Liz’s Antique Hardware were a splurge I had been dreaming of for years.

I wanted a duvet cover we could flip over and launder regularly, so I had two of my favorite sheets sewn together, with hidden zippers extending up the two longer sides and ties on the inside to hold the comforter in place.

This room just wasn’t working until Leslie showed us how to rearrange the furniture. Simply rotating the bed 90 degrees magically created enough space to have the reading nook of my dreams!

The étagère is an heirloom from my family. When Patrick and I were first dating, I mentioned that movers had broken one of the decorative shelf supports. While I was out of town, Patrick secretly repaired the damage to surprise me—and did such a good job that he finally had to point out what he’d done!

Bamboo antiques are scarce in Mid-Century Modern-obsessed L.A., so I found this dresser and mirror at Palm Beach Regency in Florida.

The bed is upholstered in Beacon Hill Hidden Temple linen in Emerald, which was also used for the curtains. This is the first time I’ve ever had a “decorated” bedroom, so I wanted to go full matchy-matchy!

I wanted the bed to be high enough to store our art collection underneath in archival flat files, and I wanted a footboard to keep the covers from sliding off. Beds today are all really low, and you hardly see footboards anymore, so I designed it myself and had Leslie’s furniture guy build it.

I scored the matching set of Jonathan Adler bedside lamps on eBay.

In the windowless dressing room, I had mirrored panels installed on the closet and bathroom doors. Patrick painted the bamboo chandelier fire-engine red.

The dressing room is a passthrough to the master bath.

I have an embarrassing amount of makeup, which I organize by type in a tall, multi-drawer scrapbooking cart. I had Mike Z build this cabinet to conceal it.

The master bathroom’s original blue tile is what sold me on the apartment. I chose the Schumacher Chiang Mai Dragon wallpaper to complement it and designed the matching Roman shade. The hubcap sculpture by my dad, Charlie Hayward, is called “Caddy Daddy.”

The rug is only being used in photos to hide the ginormous floor crack we discovered after we moved in. I swear we do not actually keep a gross hair- and bacteria-collecting rug in our bathroom!

The art is by Los Angeles artist Chris Turnham.

We turned our other bathroom into a replica of the foyer of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion—or at least what the powder room off that foyer would look like if there were one! It was featured on Apartment Therapy here.

The wallpaper and sheer curtain fabric are the same ones used in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. The vintage 1920s chandelier is a smaller version of the one Disney Imagineers installed in the 1960s. I collected the lenticular changing portraits from eBay.

I designed the sink skirt in the same style as the curtains, which I matched to those in the Haunted Mansion’s foyer.

When real molding proved to be too expensive, Patrick hand-painted trompe l’oeil molding on the ceiling and added 3-D medallions to mimic those in the attraction.

The replica Stretching Room gargoyle is from eBay. You can see the full Haunted Bathroom Makeover here!

Patrick added brass hairpin legs to inexpensive computer desks with laptop compartments, integrated power strips and cord cutouts. Mike Z Designs created a custom wooden box to hide the ugly in-wall AC unit. The front panel slides out to allow the unit to operate.

I designed the hutch to conceal all the less glamorous functions of the office, including a drop-down work surface, slide-out printer and scanner trays, and two drawers for hanging files.

The interior work area lights up with LED strips and uses a mounted Elfa system to corral office supplies. (I inherited the massive Sharpie collection from mt cartoonist father and will never, ever run out.)

We chose this American Leather Comfort Sleeper sofa for its real queen-size mattress and no-bar-in-your-back bed mechanism. I had it re-covered in Lilly Pulitzer’s Besame Mucho fabric after Nacho finished destroying the original upholstery.

Patrick turned the pagoda lantern into a terrarium.

The “Retro Deck” sculpture is by Charlie Hayward. The neon Union Jack tea towel is a souvenir from our recent visit to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.

In its previous incarnation, the patio was featured on Apartment Therapy. We had to start from scratch when the management imposed a new weight limit for all items on the patio.

The sofa cushion is upholstered in Lilly Pulitzer for Lee Jofa Searchin Urchin in Lush/Conch.

The pendant light, found on Chairish, is a nod to the patio’s previous Moroccan incarnation. Patrick spruced up the vintage Cosco utility cart with spray paint in my favorite shades.

We struck gold when we discovered this Mid-Century fiberglass patio furniture by Russell Woodard. Each chair weighs less than 5 pounds, we replaced the glass tabletop with acrylic, and even the sofa weighs less than 20 pounds!

The plates and napkins are Lilly Pulitzer for Target. The napkin rings came from Parker Kennedy’s weekly Instagram sale. The cake and cupcakes are by my all-time favorite bakery, Susiecakes.

Enthusiasm for the patio’s new “Lilly Pulitzer Garden Party” theme helped me recover from the disappointment of losing the original Moroccan garden.

When I couldn’t find any wall fountains that met the weight limit and didn’t look like tombstones, Patrick created this corner fountain out of copper tubing and two faux clamshells that he coated in pool paint.

I designed the tiles for the shelf using Fireclay Tile’s Color-it! Custom Paint Tool online.

Good Nacho.