Grace Blu Interior Design

Grace Blu Interior Design Featured in Arch Digest, Better Homes and Gardens, Kids Spaces Magazine. The Grace Blu mindset and mantra is "designing outside the box."

Grace Blu Interior Design is a boutique interior design firm that designs outside the box and creates unique and bold spaces for residential and commercial projects. When Rona Graf launched Grace Blu in 2007, she made the intentional decision not to use her own name. From the beginning, her vision for her design studio was a “collaborative of creatives” that would combine their skills and experien

ces to create one-of-a-kind spaces. Grace Blu’s most recent collaboration with fellow principal designer Megan Yang reinforces the construction forward design studio’s commitment to innovative solutions and diverse perspectives. The meaning is two-fold, as seen in their convention challenging designs and client-centric approach. Rona and team forgo genre and rigid process, instead editing their approach and style to create a fresh and inimitable space every single time. Grace Blu has received the attention of many regional and national publications like HGTV Magazine, Arch Digest, Better Homes & Gardens, CA Home & Design, RUE Magazine, Modern Luxury, Orange County Register, and Coast Magazine. Most recently, Grace Blu was honored with the title of HGTV Designer of the Year 2020.

06/17/2026

Rombauer in a shot glass. 😂

If antiques have taught us anything, it's that we've fully committed to the big pour era. Kristen is breaking down why your Downton Abbey wine glasses aren't built for modern wine habits, and honestly, she's not wrong.

The best part? All these Bridgerton and period drama obsessives are suddenly looking at antiques differently. The background props are having a moment, and the pieces are real.

Come find your own piece of history. Just maybe bring a bigger glass. 🍷

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
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06/16/2026

What started as selling a few things to friends for charity… turned into 100 people lined up outside her house an hour before the doors opened.
Kristen James didn't set out to build a shop. She set out to give back. A love of treasure hunting + a big heart for + one Instagram post — and Goodbye James was born.

Her husband had one condition after that third pop-up. 😂

We love a story that starts with good intentions and outgrows the yard. 🏷️

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06/13/2026

The moment I stopped thinking of myself as a designer who ran a business… and started thinking of myself as a CEO who ran a design business, everything shifted.

Our clients are savvy. They're educated. Most of them are business owners themselves. The level of respect I gained the moment I showed up as a business leader, not just a creative, changed dramatically.

So if you're building something in this industry, here's what I wish someone had told me 20 years ago:
Become a business person first. Learn how to run a business. Understand the numbers, the systems, the leadership. The design will always be there; that part comes naturally to us. The business side is what actually determines whether you make it.

I never went to business school. I went to the school of hard knocks. And I learned a lot along the way. But if someone had pointed me toward the business fundamentals earlier? I would have gotten here a lot faster.

It's not too late to flip the table. 🖤

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
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06/11/2026

You're spending $3 million on a build… and you're trying to save money on the designer?

I get it. The numbers are big, and every place you can trim feels like a win. But here's what actually happens: you hire a cheaper architect, an okay builder, a designer who's "good enough", and the whole thing costs you more in the long run.

The home doesn't come out the way you imagined. Things take longer. And now you're fixing mistakes that could have been avoided from the start.
The best homes aren't built with the best materials. They're built by the best teams.

Don't cheap out on your team. 🏠

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
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06/09/2026

Fun fact: I didn't name this company after myself.

I started Grace Blu when I was pregnant. My favorite name was Grace… and I had a boy. So here we are. Grace Blu, it is. 😂

But the name was always symbolic of something bigger. From day one, my vision was never to build a one-woman show. It was to build a team. A real one. The kind that doesn't need me in the room to run beautifully.

I got a glimpse into what that could look like early in my career. In my first year in design, I worked for a model home firm with 140 employees. The principal had just retired. She moved to Oregon, sold the company to her five principals, and was sitting back watching something she'd built for 30 years continue to thrive without her.

And something just clicked for me.

If I'm going to pour 30 years of my heart and soul into something… I want something to be there at the end. For me. For my family. A legacy. Something that lives beyond any one person, including me.

So yeah. My team is everything. Always has been. 💛

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
📞 (714) 549-7770
✉️ [email protected]
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06/06/2026

Collaboration isn't a strategy for us. It's just how we operate.

Some of our best relationships came from simply showing up and giving, helping a trade partner design their showroom, delegating my team, pouring into something with zero expectation. And every single time, those relationships come back around in the most unexpected ways.

Oh, and the podcast? I did NOT wake up one day and decide to do that. 😂 But here we are, 15 episodes in with 20 more in the works. They say if you get past month four, you're in it to win it. We're in it!!!

And if you've been around here a while, you might know I started as a teacher. What they don't tell you is that teaching is one of the hardest jobs on this planet: mentally, physically, emotionally. I was 22 and completely exhausted. You go home, and you're still thinking about your kids at midnight.

To every teacher out there, thank you. Genuinely. 💛

The creativity, the patience, the people skills, everything I learned in that classroom built the foundation for everything we do at Grace Blu.

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
📞 (714) 549-7770
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06/03/2026

She knew from day one she didn't want to just post property tours.

Boring. 😂

Tina Tan made a decision early: show who you are, not just what you sell. And that decision changed everything.

50% of her business last year came directly from Instagram. Not from a massive following. Not from viral moments. From genuine connection and showing up as herself.

Her brokerage thinks it's insane. Her clients from Seattle, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Bay Area think it's exactly why they called her.

This is what happens when you stop performing and start connecting. 🏡

Full episode with Tina Tan is live, link in bio! 🎙️

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
📞 (714) 549-7770
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06/02/2026

She trusted a referral. And that agent wasn't there for a single moment that mattered, not even closing day.

That experience didn't just frustrate Tina. It inspired her. Because if that's what the industry looked like, she knew she could do it better. And she was right.

Sometimes the best origin stories start with someone else doing the job badly. 🏡

📍 Costa Mesa | Newport Beach | Nationwide
📞 (714) 549-7770
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Whether it’s a lazy day in bed or a work from home day- We wouldn’t mind either here! Project: Photographer: Location...
05/29/2026

Whether it’s a lazy day in bed or a work from home day- We wouldn’t mind either here!

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Location: Laguna Beach, CA

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