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Spa & wellness interior design in Los Angeles

Nataly Karavay is a Los Angeles–based wellness interior designer who creates med spas, day spas and bathhouses, boutique hotels and restaurants, and wellness residences. This is the studio’s home market: recent built work includes a residence in Studio City, a restaurant in Venice, and a wellness studio in Pasadena, with a completed med spa one county over in Yorba Linda. The studio is a LIV Hospitality Design Awards Winner (2024) and works from Los Angeles for clients nationally — but if your project is in LA, the designer is already here.

Why does a wellness business in Los Angeles need more than a good-looking space?

Because in this city, good-looking is the baseline. Los Angeles has more wellness businesses per block than almost anywhere — the spaces that hold clients are the ones that change how a person feels within the first minute, not the ones that photograph well. The studio designs around that: light, sound, materials, and circulation tuned to the nervous system, not to a trend.

At a med spa in Yorba Linda, California — the studio’s most recent completed clinical project — that meant curved walls and softened corners set against stainless steel, so the room reads as precise and safe at the same time. At Relovi, a wellness sugaring studio in Pasadena, it meant carrying femininity through shapes and details inside an existing shell. Different budgets, different sectors, same principle: the space has to do emotional work before anyone says a word.

Can one studio handle both clinical spaces and hospitality spaces?

Yes — and in Los Angeles that range matters, because the city’s wellness market spans everything from medical aesthetics to restaurants that trade on atmosphere. The studio’s LA-area work covers that spread. Alisa: Wine and Friends, a restaurant in Venice designed and executed in 2024–2025, pairs minimalism with rich natural textures and Mediterranean influences — interior design, art direction, and construction administration under one roof. Humble Elegance, a 1940s four-bedroom home in Studio City, was updated and executed in 2024. Clinical precision, hospitality warmth, and residential calm are the same discipline applied at different intensities — and the studio has built all three here.

What is it like to renovate inside an existing Los Angeles building?

Most LA wellness projects don’t start from a shell you’d choose — they start from a lease. The studio designs to that reality. At Relovi in Pasadena, the walls and floors were givens; shapes, details, and decorating carried the whole transformation. At Humble Elegance in Studio City, the character of a 1940s home was the starting point, not an obstacle. If you’re still choosing between spaces, the studio can assess a location before you commit to it — often the cheapest design decision you’ll ever make.

Will the designer actually be on site?

Yes. The studio is based in Los Angeles, and LA projects get in-person site presence through construction — the scope on the studio’s local projects has consistently included construction administration, not just drawings. The process runs from concept and photorealistic 3D renderings through complete construction documentation, specifications and buying lists, and hands-on support during construction and installation.

Working across Los Angeles

The studio is based in Los Angeles and has designed and built projects in Studio City, Venice, and Pasadena, with a completed med spa in Yorba Linda in neighboring Orange County. For LA projects, the studio shows up in person — site visits, contractor walk-throughs, installation oversight — as often as the work requires. The studio also serves clients nationally and internationally, so opening a second location outside the city doesn’t change who you work with.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do you take projects in Los Angeles?
Yes — Los Angeles is where the studio is based. Recent LA-area work includes a residence in Studio City, a restaurant in Venice, and a wellness studio in Pasadena. LA projects get in-person site presence throughout design and construction.
What kinds of wellness spaces do you design in LA?
Med spas and wellness clinics, day spas and bathhouses, boutique hotels and restaurants, and wellness residences. The studio’s LA-area portfolio already spans residential, hospitality, and wellness-studio work, with clinical work nearby in Orange County.
Can you help me evaluate a space before I sign a lease?
Yes. If you’re deciding between locations, the studio can assess whether a space will suit your practice or concept — layout, circulation, light, and buildability — before you commit to it.

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