A hat wall, a music room and the sea: Susan and Ryan Shand's Santa Barbara house
The mother and daughter behind Shand Design show the house that was rebuilt from nothing, and viewers are already asking to see Ryan's place next.
HomeworthyStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 54,768 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (4,634).
Inside a Dreamy Santa Barbara Home Designed by a Mother-Daughter Team | House Tour
"Inside a Dreamy Santa Barbara Home Designed by a Mother-Daughter Team" is the newest house tour on Homeworthy, Alison's channel about people and the places they call home. The hosts are interior designer Susan Shand and her daughter Ryan, who run Shand Design together as co-owners. The house they open up is Susan's own.
It did not start out dreamy. The description says it was a neglected property, rebuilt from the ground up and planned around its view of the ocean. Today it holds a family music room, a large kitchen, a secret garden, a pool and Susan's hat wall, which the description calls iconic, along with antiques, books, artwork and finds from trips abroad. The channel's own tags file it under "Nancy Meyers style," a fair hint at the mood: generous rooms, soft colors, a kitchen you would like to cook in.
The tour passed 33,000 views in its first ten hours. A new Homeworthy video usually ends a whole day below 5,000, and five other tours that went up on the same day, from a Dallas Tudor to a maximalist Birmingham house, are all moving at that familiar pace.
In the comments, viewers point to the before pictures and the vision it took to get from there to here. One spotted messages spelled out in Scrabble tiles, another the mugs, toys and sculptures from other countries. And more than one would like Ryan to give a tour of her own home next.
Published on Trari
Read next
What viewers say
Well they’re delightful. Love their passion for collaborating with clients to help them ‘find their home’. Also like the Scrabble messages 😊
@cewheatonone9567See it on YouTubeIt sure takes vision to be able to transform that place the way they did.
@TextureTerrySee it on YouTubeI love listening to artistic people and seeing what they create. Beautiful home (and outfit🙂)
@chaimbentorahministries1668See it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
Is this your channel?
Share the story with your audience: in a community post, in your channel's description or on your socials. The text and the badge are ready.
You may use the picture, the badge, and link it to this story.
- Channel
- Homeworthy
- Subscribers
- 921,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 4,021,412
- Channel views, pace per day
- 753,606 (on a normal day: 541,546)
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 33,464 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 54,768
The numbers
One tour out of six posted the same day ran far ahead of the others, and far ahead of the channel's usual first day.
💡 Test your knowledge
Santa Barbara, home of the house in this tour, is often called by which nickname?
Santa Barbara's Mediterranean climate and coastline earned it the nickname the American Riviera, which the city still uses.
