Interior and furniture designer Leslie Shapiro Joyal, a contestant on the first season of Ellen’s Design Challenge, first met the owner of this home through her furniture studio on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles when he commissioned her to build a pair of nightstands to match a bed he’d just bought. “He liked them so much,” Shapiro Joyal remembers, “that he returned the bed and asked me build him a new one!” Over the years their collaboration produced additional furniture as well as the design of two apartments. So, when he purchased this Beverly Hills property, he naturaly asked her to shoulder its renovation.