Sandy Espinet Biography
Sandra "Sandy" Espinet received her Associate in Arts at the New England School of Design in Boston MA, her Bachelor of Arts in interior design from the American College of Art in Atlanta, and has a master's degree in production design from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Sandra is a luxury interior designer who resides in and has offices in both San José del Cabo, Mexico and Los Angeles, California.
Sandra is an HGTV personality and has appeared on episodes of Bang for Your Buck, Halloween Block Party 2010, HGTV'd' and HGTV’s Celebrity Holiday Homes on which she completed the homes of Holly Robinson Peete in 2009, Brooke Burke and David Charvet in 2010 and Eva LaRue and Alison Sweeney in 2011. In 2010, Sandra was voted as the “California Home and Design Designer of the Year”.
In 2014, she was a style ambassador for California Faucets. In December 2016, she was nominated one of the "Top 10 Interior Designers in Latin America" by Architectural Digest Mexico, and was also named one of the "Top 100 Interior Designers in Mexico" by Ambientes Magazine. Since 2011, Sandra has been the China style ambassador for Anderson Wood Floor (a Berkshire Hathaway Company).
Her design work has been featured in most major publications such as Cosmopolitan, AD Mexico, IDprestige, Ellie Sojourn, Signature Kitchens and Baths, Home Accents Today, California Home + Design and KB+B. She has appeared as a regular on-air guest on Martha Stewart Living Radio with Mario Bosque. In 2014 she designed and launched a line of Tibetan rugs with “Aga John Rug Company” in Los Angeles.
Espinet's first book The Well-Traveled Home was published on August 1, 2013, and is currently working on her second book with publisher Gibbs-Smith.