Dirty Girl Construction, Inc

03/17/2026

In a world where everything can feel upside down 🙃 on the daily, you can depend on Joan growing food throughout the year. Here are some winter tomatoes and jalapeños 😋

02/28/2026

💜💜 After hunting near and far, we found the most gorgeous piece of lavender stone 💜💜 beautiful leathering + a perfect cut make for a trifecta in the primary bathroom 💜 💜

02/13/2026

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02/05/2026

We had a wonderful evening under the stars 🌟 as we did a group lighting walk to review our first round lighting installation. While it’s the perfect hour to fill in the gaps and revise some positioning, it’s also the perfect time to step back and let sink in the artistry that has been poured into this home. The projects we take on take time, thoughtfulness and an undying commitment to seeing things through. We are in our sixth year of restoring this home to its original glory and we would do it all over again. Many thanks to everyone at our sister design firm and our amazing landscape architect for their continued collaborative spirit and mutual desire to create a more beautiful world 🌎 ❤️

11/06/2025

Working in the studio today on the elevation studies for our Rodeo Drive project 🌴 🌴🌴

09/05/2025

We've got great news on this ! 🎉 The Marilyn Monroe Residence has been spared demolition and remains a protected Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM), thanks to a ruling made yesterday.

Following a hearing last week, a judge sided Tuesday with the city of Los Angeles on maintaining the HCM status of Marilyn Monroe's former home, declining the request of its new owners to halt its designation so they could level the property, Bloomberg reports.

Monroe's 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive holds historical significance as the only home the Hollywood icon ever owned by herself, in a time when just 0.1% of single young women owned a home.

This designation is particularly meaningful as only about 2% of designated HCMs in Los Angeles currently represent women's history. Through the L.A. Women's Landmarks Project—a partnership with the Where Women Made History initiative of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the L.A. Conservancy—we're working to address the significant underrepresentation of women and their contributions to Los Angeles landmarks.

Read more on yesterday's decision at the Bloomberg article here: https://bit.ly/481wDab

📸: Marilyn Monroe House by Mercer Vine via Curbed; Monroe at Fifth Helena Drive by Allan Grant for LIFE Magazine, 1962.

08/13/2025

Getting ready for shower glass and a proper steam! Thanks to and for creating beautiful custom tile with us to finish out thus luxury install ✨ 💗 ✨

08/05/2025

These rich, moody plums are serving up some major a-peel 🍇 🎨

05/01/2025

In January, after the fires devastated our community, we kicked into high gear to find a family that needed a home. Within two days, with the help of our Realtor community friends, we found three generations of Pacific Palisades family from two households who needed to settle somewhere. We then kicked into even higher gear and turned this property into a place that Grandma, her adult children and her grandchildren could call home. They move in today - May Day. It has been our pleasure the be part of the solution and we thank everyone who put their hearts and hands into creating with us. Your hard work and love for your neighbors - even when they are strangers - is evident. It has been such a hard year with so many sad tears; we hope this brings a smile to some aching souls. To our build and design teams - thank you 🙏 thank you 🙏 thank you 🙏- everything about this house is so special and beautiful. And a huge round of applause to Dan for digging in and getting this done no matter what. I love you so very much. Welcome home family; we hope you find peace, love and sanctuary inside these walls! ❤️ 🏡 😊 🪽 🤗

01/15/2025

When someone asks you if they should put drunk monkey wallpaper in their remodel, the answer is always “yes.” Always. Absolutely no exceptions. 🐒 🍷 🍌

01/11/2025

For the past week we have been working to coordinate next steps with community leaders and city officials, while also working in realtime with our clients and friends to handle immediate needs. We ask that you please consider donating to LAFD to continue supporting our boots on the ground by donating here: https://supportlafd.org so that they can purchase whatever they need to fight for all of us. On a personal level, because so many have inquired, our home, family, offices and work family are marked safe at this time. We know the winds will change this evening and we remain poised and alert. Please do the same if you are in the area.

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