“This was my dream neighborhood, ever since I was little.” So says Aimee Song , fashion entrepreneur, social media mogul, and founder of Song of Style —a blog turned fashion and lifestyle brand—of her meant-to-be home. A historic neighborhood in central Los Angeles known for its quiet streets and impressive houses caught the eye of Song and her family from a very young age. “I grew up in Downtown L.A. and there really weren’t any safe places to walk around,” she recalls, “we’d drive over here during the holidays or even with our mom just to walk the dogs.” Fast forward a decade or two, a period working in interior architecture, an enviable fashion and influencing career, and six-plus million social media followers and here we find a nine-month pregnant Song, alongside longtime boyfriend, Jacopo Moschin , nesting in their memory-filled abode.

Like many, Song and Moschin ended 2019 with with hopes for a bright new decade. “We got the house literally right before the pandemic,” the young multi-hyphenate says of the drawn out moving process. A space that had only housed one previous owner—an older couple looking to downsize from their family home. Song took this as a sign. “People don’t really flip or move in and out of this neighborhood,” she reflects, “they stay.” But just like that, someone left, and a 1920s Spanish revival home nestled comfortably in a historic Los Angeles neighborhood became theirs.

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So with location and great bones checked off the list, space planning was next on the agenda. “Spanish style homes are great but they also tend to be very dark with lots of tiny rooms,” (eight, to be exact), “and few windows,” Song notes. And because crafting an open and inviting space was a top priority for the parents-to-be, breaking through walls was a prerequisite. Starting out the renovations alongside her father—this was the third home the duo had worked on together—Song tapped into her interior architecture background to modify the home in a way that would best tend to her and Moschin’s needs.

“We honestly went in blindly,” she jokes of her and her father’s approach to remodeling. “It was great. . . but then we sort of let my dad go,” she says with a laugh. Enter architect and designer Antonio Forteleoni and long-time friend of Moschin. The couple brought him in to help oversee the space planning, particularly for the primary bedroom and kitchen. But toward the tail end of the project, the interior architect was poached. “Kelly [Wearstler] and her husband came to see our house during construction and took him on the spot,” Song says admiringly of the architect, who until recently served as the design director at Kelly Wearstler .

Chez Song, under Forteleoni’s guidance, the kitchen was first to go. “It was half the size,” she says of the now airy and fresh room. An area that is typically one of the most precious of a home, Moschin and Song made sure to combine their individual tastes by remembering the power of compromise. Case in point: their eye-catching kitchen island featuring a Calacatta Viola marble countertop. “I really wanted a waterfall island but Jacopo and Antonio were like ‘absolutely not’,” Song says, laughing at the “impractical” and “American” ask. (A T-island ended being being the perfect compromise.)

“Living with an Italian, I just somehow became more paired down,” she notes of the “collaborative” renovation and decoration process. Drawing inspiration from their individual cultures, Song and Moschin successfully merged their backgrounds to reimagine a space that fuses a Mediterranean flare and Eastern design ethos. “Now we have our dream house that we built together,” Song reflects. “Every time we travel we’re always so excited to get back home and just stay home.”

After holding off on having a nursery for her first child, Song’s nesting phase kicked in. “We just want[ed] to redo everything.” Cue a den turned walk-in-closet and turned nursery. “I literally decided last week,” she says. And considering that the new mom’s water broke the morning after the photos for this feature were taken, it looks like everything was done just in time.

Dreamy bougainvillea vines line the outside walls of the home adding to the already Mediterranean style of the space. A 1970s vintage chaise lounge invites guests to sit and stay awhile.

Moschin and Song in the entryway of their Los Angeles home. Song wears a Yan Yan Chan for Sir the Label dress while Moschin opts for a neutral Prada look.

Perched atop a 19th-century Chinese bench is a nine-month pregnant Song. A black clay Chinese pot sourced from Interior by Birk sits by her side.

“I’ve had that Mario Bellini sofa for a while,” Song says of her beloved vintage Camaleonda Sofa couch that’s graced her previous homes for the past [few] years and now sits front and center in the couple’s living room.

“Jacopo found this beautiful chest that came from [Korea] that he absolutely loves… It has to be at least 100 years old,” says Song of the 19th-century eye-catching cabinet in the couple’s dining room. The center of attention, however, is the custom ceramic vase he had made for Song for her birthday this past December. “He and my closest friends wrote 365 messages to put inside,” she tells us of the “most meaningful” piece in her home.

“The dining table Jacopo brought from [his home] in New York,” Song notes of the Charlotte Perriand En Forme Libre for Cassina table . “He actually had matching Jeanneret chairs in black which he ended up selling…I was so mad about it,” she jokes. Instead, the couple opted for Song’s 19th-century original vintage George Nakashima chairs. Not a bad second choice.

“Definitely our kitchen and dining area,” Song says of the labor of love that was her kitchen remodel, when asked about the most used rooms in the home. “On Fridays we do a lot of game nights,” she notes of the multi-use space. “During the pandemic we’d have our small pod come over but now we do them maybe once a month.”

An RH round dining table surrounded by De La Espada chairs anchors the sun-drenched breakfast room. The light-filled interior is a testament to the space planning that dominated the couple’s attention in the beginning of the remodel. “We [really wanted] that indoor outdoor living situation,” Song says of the doors that open up to their backyard.

A custom walnut library lines the wall of the home office while a LC7 Swivel Chair and a Barcelona leather daybed , both sourced from Design Within Reach , steal the seating show. An unframed and unfinished portrait of George Sand lays regally above the desk.

A hallway outside a powder room is marked by a 1996 Inez and Vinoodh c-print on Plexiglass from Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and a side chair from De La Espada . A peek into the bathroom gives us a preview of their vanity made from Indian sandstone and JH limestone wash wall paint.

“The [primary bedroom] used to be one-third of this size,” Song boasts of the incredible feat that was reconfiguring the suite. A few not-so-simple steps later and Moschin and Song were left with a dream room peering out to a palm tree lined street.

An Armadillo rug brings a sense of grounded comfort to the jaw-dropping closet. A V-leg Pierre Jeanneret armchair adds vintage flare to the otherwise modern room.

“Knocking down walls is not that hard but when you have to reconfigure an entire space and put plumbing in a completely new place, that’s always what takes up the most work,” the fashion entrepreneur says of her completely remodeled primary bath, which features a custom Cipollino marble sink, Brizo faucets, enviable travertine floors and shower, and window dressings from The Shade Store .

“Our house is very clean and white,” she continues, “so with the nursery, I really just wanted color and [ Morris & Co. ] wallpaper. Plus,” she adds, “even though we’re having a boy, I never liked the idea of pink for a girl and blue for a boy. . . even for our gender reveal, we did cake flavors. . . peach for a girl and banana for a boy.”