“I am not an abstract modern art girl,” Los Angeles interior designer Estee Stanleydeclares. “I like people and animals on the wall, it makes a house feel more cozy.”

In her comfortable yet elegant home — a 1920s Spanish two-story duplex she reconfigured as a family residence for her husband, film and TV producer Bryan Furst, kids Teddy, 7, and Flora, 4, and English sheepdog Scout — the art is both whimsical and edgy.

There are photographs of Andy Warhol in a Marilyn Monroe wig and makeup, drawings of little girls by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, clusters of birdhouses, faux taxidermy and real trophy heads — Pete, the elk, who overlooks the staircase and Joe, the stag, who greets visitors in the living room.

The walls of the family room are a gallery of glamorous candid shots from her marriage ceremony, including a photo of Stanley and Furst in which she is holding a firearm.

“This,” she says, laughing boisterously, “is our shotgun wedding portrait.”

Stanley’s approach to interior design is every bit as unconventional and witty. Upstairs, in her master bedroom, Stanley hung an old-school Italian portrait of a woman that once belonged to her grandmother. The lady in the painting gazes to her right, her eyes fixed on an equally aged oil painting of a man.

“That’s her husband. Now look over there,” Stanley says, pointing to a third painting of a man hanging over her bathtub, “That’s her lover. He’s her piece on the side. Can you believe the shit I make up?”

It’s just as baffling to consider hanging an unprotected work of art over a tub, but Stanley, who started her career as a wardrobe stylist for music videos in the 1990s (Justin Timberlake remains a friend and client ) doesn’t stand on ceremony. “I have an antique chair from the Paris flea market covered in red silk next to the tub,” she adds. “Now that really shouldn’t be in a bathroom.”

Born in Villa Park, a suburb of Newport Beach, Calif., Stanley grew up in “a Cape Cod-style house with black marble floors, gorgeous antiques and — because it was the 1980s — neon sticks everywhere.

My mom had wild design style.” She was also inspired by the “fancy 1960s” style of her grandmother, who bequeathed to her a table clad in jade, which now sits in the designer’s boudoir (“I like every room to have one ‘Wow, I never would have thought about that moment,’ “ Stanley says) and the white baby grand piano and enormous curved sofa in her living room.

That room also features a large coffee table carved from marble, English armchairs and a rope stool by French designer Christian Astuguevieille. “This mix is really me,” Stanley says. “Sometimes I feel superyoung, like the girls in the weird Nara drawings by the fireplace, and sometimes I feel 200 years old, like the Oushak rug.”

Having once lived in the upstairs apartment when the building was a duplex, Stanley has turned the downstairs into a salon for entertaining. “Once I got married and had children and really started to have a lot of people over, I fell in love with this house,” Stanley enthuses.

Along with the living room, a small art- and book-filled study with French doors that she calls “the smoking room” is a favorite perch for guests. “I make sure that every room is not so precious that people won’t want to hang out there,” she adds, running her finger across a small wooden table that’s seen its fair share of party-related dings.

“Look how thrashed it is,” she says proudly.

As a modern parent, the 45-year-old mom has created adorable rooms for her kids, designing a treehouse bed for her son and a vast playroom off her daughter’s exuberantly decorated bedroom. “It’s important for them to have a space where they can go crazy with crayons, but they’re not allowed to color in the living room. Parents should teach kids to be proud of their home.”

In her work, Estee Stanley is just as passionate about creating public spaces where families can happily hang out. After crafting the interior for chef Ludovic Lefebvre’s four-star bistro Petit Trois in Hollywood, the designer will partner with Jessica Biel in a restaurant called Au Fudge.

“I don’t know why restaurants think kids only want to eat chicken tenders and mac and cheese,” she says. “Adults cannot be happy in these places, so I want to design a magical place for the kids in all of us.”

Master Bedroom

Stanley’s master bedroom features an Italian oil painting and a jade table belonging to her grandmother Florence, doors that Stanley stained herself and a bench that a favorite storeowner was about to throw in the trash.

The signature window treatment Stanley uses throughout the house: simple pinch-pleated curtains with a valance. “I hate looking at curtain rods and hardware,” she says.

Dressing room

Formerly a stylist for red carpet appearances and music videos, Stanley remains besotted with fashion. Her walk-in dressing room is large enough for her entire wardrobe, along with two chairs that belonged to her grandmother covered in brown silk.

Dressing Room Details

Designed by Stanley, the dressing room cabinetry is made from solid walnut with bronze hardware. “This is an old house,” she notes, “There were no closets in most of the rooms.”

The Bathtub

Above her bathtub, Stanley hung an aged oil painting and antique sconces that are deliberately asymmetrical. “I like things a little off,” she says. “That feels more real. Perfect isn’t cozy.” For a jolt of color, she added a faded antique rug from Lawrence of La Brea http://lawrenceoflabrea.com/ in Los Angeles with red tones that complement a silk upholstered antique chair purchased at the Paris flea market.

Son’s bedroom

Her son‘s bedroom is dominated by a treehouse bed that the designer created and had built to coordinate with the cabinetry. To balance all the white furniture, she added an inky-blue area rug and a dresser in bleached walnut.

Settee

A girlfriend’s hand-me-down midcentury one-arm settee in a vintage plaid fabric is a perfect sofa for her son, Teddy, 7. The illuminated birdhouses, made by a French artisan, also provide soft lighting.

The Staircase

The staircase, as seen from one side of the upstairs through the antlers of Pete, the taxidermy elk, features a vintage industrial lighting fixture from the shopDowntown in Los Angeles. On the landing are an antique console table and a mirror purchased at the Rose Bowl flea market. “It was $100,” Stanley enthuses, “Could you die?”

Kitchen

Though it has the clean white marble charms of a kitchen in a Nancy Meyers,Stanley’s kitchen is perked up with a mosaic marble table, English armchairs, and an industrial clock from Brenda Antin of Los Angeles. The banquette, a Stanley design, is covered in gray linen. “My husband said the table was too long for the space,” Stanley admits. “It’s so beautiful that I don’t care.”

Wallpaper.

A view of the kitchen from the hallway, which is wallpapered in a classic pattern by William Morris, reveals an island with woven rattan counter stools for casual dining. The blue in the botanical print is carried into the kitchen with randomly placed accent tiles surrounding the wall above the sink.

Dining table

A large-scale work by the Los Angeles painter Elisa Johns adds a dramatic punch to the dining room. The table is a custom creation by BDDW. “I tried chair after chair after chair to go with it,” says Stanley. “Then I went to a random estate sale and got these Danish chairs that work perfectly.”

“Smoking room”

A small room that was once a vestibule when the house was upstairs-downstairs duplex apartments has been transformed into an art-filled library that Stanley calls the “smoking room.” A favorite gathering place during parties, the room is decorated with leather club chairs and an ottoman Stanley fashioned from an old kilim rug. The lighting fixture, formerly used to illuminate patients in a dentist’s office, was purchased at Obsolete in Culver City.

Furst and Stanley

Furst and Stanley in their Hancock Park-adjacent home, which the designer transformed from a two-unit duplex into a family residence.

The Furst Family

In their garden, the Furst family — Teddy, Bryan, Flora, and Estee — relax on a sofa and table by Summit.

Estee Stanley and her furry friend Scout on the steps of her home leading out to the backyard.

“When you are doing wardrobe styling, you’re creating a persona and a character,” says the Los Angeles designer, who worked on scores of music videos in the 1990s, “and your home is every bit as symbolic of who you are. It’s the most private and important place in your life.

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