Tour Katie Mack's Candy-Colored Home in Los Angeles

If you conflate maximalism with clutter and confinement, Katie Mack — the designer, social-media tastemaker, vintage treasure hunter and all-around force of nature behind Candy-Colored Home — would love to have you over to her place in L.A.

“Maximalism to me does not equate with clutter,” she says. “A lot of times I think people think, like, ‘Oh, you just have a cluttered home.’ “No maximalism for me is my love of things, my love of thrifting, and wanting to display all of my treasures but to do it in an elevated way.” Her proof of concept? The midcentury beauty her family calls home is just over 900 square feet of livable space, and every last one of them is a breath of fresh air. She’d be delighted to show you how it came together — and how it’s constantly evolving.

"When I saw this house online for the first time I was so excited. It was built in 1953, it’s midcentury-style, which I do really love, and it just had such great bones! I love the energy of the space, I love this tall slanted ceiling and this big open room and I just — I knew it was my house," Katie says.

Though she delights in changing up her spaces as patterns and pieces catch her eye, a big decision has stuck around on the largest wall of her living room. “This is actually a mural by Photowall; it’s called ‘Cosmic Abstraction,’” she says. “It’s one of the first major changes that I made in my home that really expressed my personality and felt like me, and four-plus years later I’m still not sick of it — so I think that’s a huge testament to it. That, I think, is one of the most eye-catching pieces in this room [and] definitely one of the things that people comment on the most when they first come in the door.”

The (literal) tulip table is a spot-on match for the portrait above it. “This beautiful piece is by Meredith Steele; I love her art,” Katie says.

When Katie and her family first moved in, the home was white and minimalist. “It had a kind of Japandi decor to it,” she recalls. That inspired her initial decorating decisions, “and then I realized, ‘this isn’t me, this does not feel like me, I love color, I need color!’ — and I just went crazy with the color explosion,” she says.