2026 Ojai Holiday Home Tour, November 14 + 15
A wonderful part of the Holiday Home Tour is having the homes styled with festive décor, thoughtful details, and holiday cheer curated by local Ojai designers, who will capture the spirit of the homeowners as well as their own design points of view. This year’s holiday designers are Lila Glasoe Francese, Amalgam Flora, Sunday Hendrickson, and Lynn Malone.
Amalgam Flora
Designing Bella Vista Ranch, inspired by Thanksgiving Harvest
Anna Oster is the creator of healthy food and lifestyle website Amalgam Kitchen. Her focus is on eating and living which is wholesome, sumptuous and beautiful. Anna has loved flowers since she was a small girl, enjoying her mother’s garden in San Francisco as well as visiting Green Gulch, a Buddhist community and farm, where she remembers playing in flower fields. This love of flowers extended into her cooking and food photography she does for her site, incorporating edible flowers in dishes as well as in her food styling.
Three years ago, she launched Amalgam Flora, where Anna creates floral art for small events and businesses in Ojai. You can see her work regularly at the clothing boutique, Inyun Collective.
She is honored to participate in the Ojai Holiday Home Tour and Market event. Anne Crawford is a dear friend and Anna regularly adds to the beauty and sophistication of Anne and Dudley’s home, Bella Vista Ranch. The abundance of the Fall season’s offerings will be highlighted. Anna tries to focus on what is available locally as much as possible. The goal is to complement the splendor of the home and celebrate the colors and textures in the bounty of the season.
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Lynn Malone
Designing Casa De Los Osos, inspired by New Year’s Eve
Floral design has always been a passion for Lynn, from picking and making Mother’s Day flowers as a child, to working for nearly three decades at local nonprofit and government organizations who needed florals for events, always within a tight budget. A self-taught designer, Lynn spent twenty years learning to create beautiful florals affordably, by incorporating seasonal and foraged flowers, foliage, and other natural elements.
In 2013, Lynn opened her flower shop, Digs, which became one of Ojai’s “go to” flower shops and later evolved into three different floral design studios after she sold it to retire. Unable to fully leave florals behind, Lynn currently designs for occasional events and local organizations, including the Ojai Music Festival and the Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, helping to create unique florals for events and fundraisers on a budget. She occasionally leads floral workshops for local groups.
Lynn is taking a break from her annual role as the Home Tour’s design liaison this year to fully enjoy bringing the upcoming New Year holiday to life with the lively and artistic team of its residents, Brad and DeeDee. Having spent most of her floral career designing for multitudes of clients with unique styles, Lynn finds creative joy in collaborating with homeowners to bring Holiday visions to life. “We are a great team this year” says Lynn, “bouncing ideas around, trying this and that, until it’s just right.” The plethora of art and collectables in the home affords an opportunity to let her creative energy run wild, while utilizing and complementing them.
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Lila Glasoe Francese
Designing Château du Chêne, inspired by French Provincial Christmas
Lila Glasoe Francese is the co-owner of OHI HOME, LLC an Ojai-based design house she founded alongside her husband Dines in 2009. She has a BFA from the prestigious Meadows School of the Arts at SMU, in Dallas, and is certified as a RESA Pro Stager as well as a Luxury Home Specialist. Lila began her career in Los Angeles, as a personal assistant to studio heads and producers. She found inspiration from the notable designers working in their homes, specifically Kelly Werstler and Tim Clarke. Lila and her husband Dines began buying, redesigning, and selling homes in 2001. This allowed them to leave Los Angeles relocate to Ojai. In 2006, they purchased a home in Ojai, not far from where Dines was raised. When their daughter began Oak Grove School in 2008, their vision for OHI HOME was set into motion. Almost two decades later, they continue to create appealing and comfortable one-of-a-kind interiors for design clients and home staging plans for realtors selling homes. While Home Staging is not a collaborative process, Lila believes when she acts as an interior designer, her job is to elevate her client’s vision for their home.
Lila’s home staging and interior design work has been featured in the Architectural Digest, Dwell, Ventana, LA Yoga Magazine, and many other national and international publications. Her work can also be seen on Houzz and on her blog ohihomestyle.com.
Lila is also an award winning author, speaker and founder of Ojai’s non-profit fine art foundation, The Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation & it’s artist residency program The Ojai Institute
The French Provincial inspiration for Château du Chêne grew naturally from the home’s grand scale and timeless architectural details, reminiscent of the elegant estates I’ve visited throughout the Provence region of France. For the Ojai Holiday Home Tour, I want to bring this classic European aesthetic to life through a Christmas design that feels both festive and enduring. Inspired by the warmth and romance of a Provençal Christmas, the interiors will blend seasonal greenery, natural textures, and thoughtful holiday details with the home’s inherent grandeur. The result is a celebration of timeless French country elegance, creating a holiday atmosphere that feels welcoming, collected, and as though it has evolved over generations.
Misty Gerry
Designing the Tiny Home Village, inspired by Christmas
Deirdre “Misty” Gerry is a Santa Barbara native whose lifelong appreciation for art, history, and design began with her studies in Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was fortunate enough to work in the university’s art museum while completing her studies. She later gained experience at the de Young Museum in San Francisco before moving into interior design, working alongside Los Angeles designers Joe Nye and Suzanne Rheinstein. Misty eventually established her own boutique interior design business in Santa Barbara, followed by a ten-year tenure as curator and general manager of a Summerland gallery featuring a distinguished collection of traditional American folk art and extraordinary self-taught works by outsider artists, assembled by producers Marcy Carsey and Susan Berwald.
With deep family ties to Ojai and a longstanding love for the valley, Misty was delighted to make the move over the mountain from Santa Barbara and establish Ojai as her forever home. Along with her partner, Fernando Girón, her lifelong best friend, Michelle Bosch, and their children, she opened Cercana, a family-owned shop celebrating small-batch makers, thoughtfully and ethically produced goods from around the world, and original studio art by local artists. Deeply rooted in the Ojai community, Cercana is devoted to its neighbors and friends, offering a thoughtfully curated collection with warmth, care, and a personal connection.
Today, Misty continues to draw inspiration from art, travel, craftsmanship, and the character of the places and people that surround her.