DISC Interiors | Newport Beach

Coastal Serenity: Conscious Select × DISC Interiors

Krista Schrock and David John Dick founded DISC Interiors in Los Angeles with a philosophy that cuts against almost everything contemporary interior design rewards: restraint, imperfection, and a deep belief that homes can be filled with less and still remain powerful spaces. Their practice, now working on both coasts and published in a Rizzoli monograph, has been built around one central conviction — that a home should become more itself over time, not less. "We are attracted to homes that become broken in, not broken," they have written. That is not a decorating philosophy. It is a life philosophy expressed through rooms.

The Newport Beach project is a full family compound on the Pacific edge — living spaces, a wine room, music room, loggia, courtyard, pool house, and grotto — designed to hold not just a family but the full rhythm of their life across seasons and decades.

The Project

DISC began, as they always do, by responding to a sense of place rather than a period or style. Newport Beach offered two things the design had to honour: the Pacific horizon, and the particular quality of coastal California light — salt-bright in the morning, amber by late afternoon, different on every surface depending on the hour.

Large expanses of glass were positioned to frame the horizon rather than compete with it. The loggia and courtyard dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior, so that moving through the house feels less like passing from room to room and more like moving through a single extended landscape. The pool house and grotto sit at the far edge of the property where the architecture meets the garden and the garden meets the view.

Materials were chosen for how they will look in ten years, not in photographs. Steel and glass give structural clarity — edges where light meets form. Against them, reclaimed woods, woven fabrics, and muted stone add the warmth and dimensionality that prevent precision from becoming coldness. The palette stays grounded in whites, washed greys, and soft ochres — colours that shift with the coastal light rather than resist it. Vintage furniture and rugs are placed alongside custom upholstery, creating interiors that feel contemporary and familiar at once, as though the house has always been lived in.

CS Design Values

Material Honesty.Every surface in the Newport Beach house was chosen for its capacity to patina — metals that burnish with touch, leathers that soften, floorboards that deepen with use. Nothing was selected for how it arrives. Everything was selected for how it endures.

Working with Nature. Glass, loggia, courtyard, and outdoor rooms are positioned not to frame the coast as a view but to dissolve the boundary between inside and out — so that sea air, light, and the sound of water are as present indoors as outdoors.

Why It's Consciously Selected

DISC Interiors designs homes conceived not for the moment of completion but for the life that follows — rooms that reveal themselves quietly over time, spaces that deepen with daily inhabitation. The Newport Beach compound is conscious not because it announces itself as such, but because every material decision asks the same question: how will this feel in twenty years? That question, asked consistently, is what makes a home worth keeping.