“My contractor knew this couple who were selling a condo and needed help zhuzhing it up,” recalls interior designer Tobe Morrow of Morrow & Co. “I agreed to the job, sight unseen, without asking who they were.” Those new clients turned out to be singer-actress Katharine McPhee (Smash, Scorpion, Broadway’s Waitress) and 16-time Grammy Award-winning music producer David Foster.

“She was just this fresh ray of sunshine,” McPhee says of meeting the designer. That condo project went so well that Morrow has now completed five homes for the pair. The trio’s latest collaboration is a one-story Spanish-style house in Carpinteria, California, located between the mountains and the beach just south of Santa Barbara.

The couple gave Morrow carte blanche on the decor. “Usually when she’s working with us, she’s presenting options, she’s sharing fabrics, there’s a lot of custom,” McPhee explains. That wasn’t the case for this project.