Jeff Doubét | Creating Spanish Style Homes®
Jeff Doubét | Creating Spanish Style Homes®
Discover Affordable Spanish Home Products, Details + Shop the Look
This page is your helpful shortcut to achieving an authentic, high-end Santa Barbara aesthetic using affordable, off the shelf products that look completely custom when paired with the right building materials.
I’ve spent over two decades specializing in Spanish style homes in Santa Barbara and Montecito. My design projects prove you can accomplish a luxury look on a budget! Not by cutting corners, but by selecting products that feel right for the architecture.
Scroll to see proven products I’ve photographed at real, local projects. Click “Shop the Look” to view exact details on Amazon, or click Project Showcase links to learn more about the project itself.
Coffee Table Books for Spanish Home Design
The 11″ x 13″ x 1″ thick full color coffee table book Creating Spanish Style Homes rests on top of a carved wood coffee table arranged in front of a Jeff Doubét designed Spanish-style fireplace.
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View Spanish Home Lighting
Here are lighting products that are compatible with Santa Barbara style projects.
Modern Exterior Lighting for Spanish Homes
Modern exterior lighting was specified for this historic Spanish home renovation in Santa Barbara, CA. See project 19 to learn all about how this home was stripped to the studs and rebuilt using classic materials like clay pipe vents and Old World plastering techniques. Also check out my blog posts with Spanish chimneys.
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Traditional Exterior Lighting for Spanish Homes
Traditional Spanish-style lighting was incorporated into this shed as well as the main house. See project 5 to learn more about how this custom Spanish shed was designed and built in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. See all Spanish shed blog posts.
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Star Pendant Lighting for Spanish Homes
A Spanish pendant light was purchased and installed on this coved entry foyer ceiling. See project 25 to learn more about the Jeff Doubét tips and techniques incorporated into this Santa Barbara Spanish home renovation. Also check out my Spanish ceiling blog posts.
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Speakeasy Door Grilles for Spanish Homes
A Spanish iron grille was installed on the exterior of a Speakeasy door. The little speakeasy door opens with a view to a star pendant light installed in the entry foyer of a Santa Barbara home. See project 10 to learn more about how an entire exterior facade was transformed from a tract house to a beautiful showpiece. Also check out all Spanish entry foyer projects.
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View Spanish Home Exterior Details + Products
The budget for building a high-quality Spanish home can eased by specifying some inexpensive, off-the-shelf products. The key to your success will be combining them with classic building techniques.
Deco Tiles for Spanish Staircases
Inexpensive, contemporary Spanish tiles and thick clay floor tiles were specified and installed on this exterior staircase in Santa Barbara. See project 7 to learn more about how this staircase was designed and installed. Also, see all blog posts with Spanish tiles in them.
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Address Tiles for Spanish Homes
Spanish mission address number tiles were specified and embedded into this stucco wall of a Spanish home in Santa Barbara. An iron speakeasy grille was also purchased for the Spanish wood door. See project 10 to learn exactly how these tiles were installed into an existing plaster wall.
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Wood Vents for Spanish Homes
Spanish-style wood vents are both decorative and functional. Here, they were deeply recessed into a stucco wall. Jeff Doubét specified these wood vents as just an example of many other special components that would transform a basic Santa Barbara tract home into a Spanish home. See project 22 for more information. See also blog posts about Spanish clay pipe vents.
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Wood Roof Brackets for Spanish Homes
Heavy cedar wood brackets were specified and installed on this newly renovated Spanish facade. Wrought iron planter baskets and window awnings were some of the other architectural details built into this custom Santa Barbara Spanish home renovation. Click project 27 to see and learn more through this Before and After series of photos. See also Spanish iron work blog posts.
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Wood Stains for Spanish Homes
The preferred wiping stain for Spanish wood garage doors. Here an expert painter in Santa Barbara applies his brand of choice, and that preferred by many other discerning, professional Santa Barbara painters and staining experts. See project 37 to learn more about how to incorporate custom details into your Spanish garage door. Also, see all of my garage door posts.
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View Spanish Home Walls and Ceilings
Wall and ceiling products compatible with Santa Barbara style Spanish interior designs.
Prefabricated Wall Niches for Spanish Homes
This Spanish-style wall niche was designed by Jeff Doubét and custom fabricated in a home in Santa Barbara, CA. For those on a tighter budget, there are product kits you can glue and screw into a wall cavity (typically between wall studs). See Project 3 to learn more about how this Spanish wall niche design came about.
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Ceiling Components for Spanish Homes
These Spanish-style ceiling panels were fabricated using fretwork components. See Project 46 to learn more about how you can make your own stunning ceiling with oversized San Felipe patterned panels.
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Grilles and Registers for Spanish Homes
Here, a Reggio register is being installed in a Santa Barbara Spanish home interior. Spanish-style register covers and grilles are an easy product to purchase to upgrade and customize your own Spanish home interior design. In an upcoming project overview I will share additional photos and pro tips for using these off-the-shelf register vents and grilles, taking them to an elevated level.
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Plaster Tools for Spanish Fireplaces
A skilled Artisan applies finishing touches to a Spanish fireplace surround using traditional methods and plastering detail tools available. Click project 24 to see a series of photos documenting the whole process at a custom Spanish home in Santa Barbara, CA.
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View Spanish Home Interior Components
Creative ideas and product suggestions for those designing and building Spanish interiors.
Decorative Corbels for Spanish Homes
Spanish-style corbels installed in a contemporary Spanish hallway entrance to a bedroom. See project 17 to go behind the scenes for more photos and to learn more about this Santa Barbara Spanish interior renovation. You can purchase similar, prefabricated corbel products. Just glue and screw them into place! Also, see other Spanish Interior Design projects.
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Decorative Corbels for Spanish Interiors
Spanish corbels installed in a bedroom hallway in Montecito, CA. See project 25 for how this interior and hallway was developed.
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Steel and Glass Doors for Spanish Homes
An installed Spanish-style steel and glass front door adds dramatic detail to this special entry foyer in Montecito, CA. The prefabricated door required minimal effort to install. See project 30 to learn more about this Spanish interior design remodel.
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View Spanish Home Decor
Here are home decor ideas for homeowners and home stagers who enjoy decorating custom Spanish-style home renovations. These product recommendations are showcased in beautiful Santa Barbara remodels.
Art for Spanish Home Interiors
This pair of ceramic birds with matte black glazing sit on a Spanish-style fireplace mantel. They can also compliment a wide variety of interior design themes. Affordable and recommendable, Lori and I own a couple of pairs and we enjoy them every day.
Mirrors for Modern Spanish Home Interiors
An affordable Spanish-style matte black mirror specified by Jeff Doubét and installed above a plaster fireplace surround and raised hearth. Lori and I own this mirror, and enjoy it every day.
Arch Top Mirrors for Spanish Homes
An arch top Spanish-style mirror is mounted on a white wall as a focal point in an entryway with terracotta clay floors, Spanish ceiling mount lighting and handmade wrought iron stair railing. See project 41 to learn more about how this Spanish interior design was developed.
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Dressing Room Mirrors for Spanish Homes
A Spanish mirror, women’s felt hats and a woven grass laundry basket are some of the interior decor products that enhance a small dressing room in Santa Barbara. See project 20 to learn more about how the interior design was developed (and built).
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View Spanish Kitchen Products
Links to projects and products for those designing and building Spanish-style kitchens.
Range Hoods for Spanish Kitchens
A Spanish-style kitchen range hood is being custom fabricated in Santa Barbara, CA. See project 17 to learn more about the steps to complete this project. See alternative prefabricated range hood products with similar look (and are easier to install).
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Talavera Tile for Spanish Kitchens
Talavera tiles in vibrant colors are installed on a custom range hood, backsplash and Spanish-style countertop. See project 26 to learn more about how this Spanish kitchen was built in Santa Barbara.
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Top Quality Cookware for Spanish Kitchens
Quality cookware, pots and pans accessorize a high-end Spanish kitchen designed and built in Montecito, CA. See project 42 to learn more about the details of how it it came about.
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Upholstered Stools for Spanish Interiors
Table and bar height upholstered stools add character and texture to Spanish kitchens. Lori and I actually specified these for our own home. Affordable accessories for high end interior decor.
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Top Quality Faucets for Spanish Homes
Rohl bath faucet fixture, a rectangular undermount sink and honed Carrera marble countertop installed in a Santa Barbara Spanish bathroom.
View Spanish Home Flooring
Flooring materials and products compatible with Santa Barbara style flooring.
Recommended Mortar for Spanish Floor Tiles
VersaBond fortified thin set mortar is being applied to the back of terracotta clay floor tiles. See project 6 for more quality photos of this master tile setter installing Squares and Pickets and Herringbone Spanish clay floor patterns in a Spanish Colonial Revival home in Montecito, CA.
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View Spanish Hardware
A Spanish collection begins with this garage door hardware. Scroll for more…
High Quality Garage Door Hardware for Spanish Homes
Quality Spanish-style garage door hardware mounted on custom wood garage door in Santa Barbara, CA. See project 37 to learn more about these and other custom garage door fabrications.
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View Spanish Garden Products
Products compatible with Santa Barbara style Spanish gardens.
Decorative Tile for Spanish Homes
Spanish tiles in red, yellow and blue were specified and installed on the inside arc of the Jeff Doubét Secret Garden Arch at Casa Corazón. The design and construction of this beautiful structure is featured on pages 44-45 of the book Creating Spanish Style Homes. See all blog posts with Spanish tiles.
View Spanish Home Construction + Materials
Building a custom home requires high quality talent, tools and materials. This store section is dedicated to those who know what they are doing as they use those proper tools and materials.
Recommended Materials for Spanish Roofing
Spanish roofing experts carefully place authentic terracotta clay roof tiles after installing Titanium PSU30 Peel & Stick roof underlayment (by INTERWRAP). Previous days on the job saw the installation of this underlayment used to waterproof the roof. See project 8 to learn all about how to craft an authentic Santa Barbara style Spanish terracotta clay roof using Redland brand tiles.
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Recommended Drywall Materials for Spanish Walls
An expert drywall artisan is finishing an oversized Spanish niche using USG Sheetrock Easy Sand 45 (product), a special additive mixed with regular drywall mud to quickly shape the special details within it. See project 30 to learn more about the entire interior renovation.
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Recommended Plastering Tools for Spanish Walls
This expert plasterer uses a stainless steel pool trowel to smooth out the final coat of stucco on the exterior of a Spanish Colonial Revival estate home in Montecito, CA. See project 32 for more photos of the crew and their fascinating process.
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Recommended Plastering Tools for Spanish Fireplaces
An expert plasterer uses a plaster hawk (mortar board) and flat finishing trowel as he works on a completing a Spanish Colonial Revival fireplace in Santa Barbara, CA. See project 24 for a comprehensive sequence of photos showcasing the techniques used by this Modern Master.
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Recommended Drywall Tools for Spanish Walls
A drywall expert works with a Chapin hand held pump sprayer and a stainless steel pool trowel to finish the desired smooth drywall textures on a wide Spanish-style archway. See project 4 to see the team of Modern Masters working at a local Montecito, CA custom home.
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Recommended Tool for Spanish Clay Vents
An expert builder uses a 9″ T-Bevel angle finder tool to establish proper alignment of Spanish-style clay pipe vent groupings. See project 33 to learn more about the entire process.
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View Spanish Fashion & Accessories
Casual Spanish fashion and accessories for detailing your home and personal life.
Handmade Leather Hand Bags for Spanish Interior Decor
A woman’s handmade leather hand bag sits in front of a wood, leather and upholstered Spanish Colonial Revival chair in a Santa Barbara bedroom.
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Fashionable Straw Hats for the Spanish Home Trades
Men’s straw hats are both fashionable and functional at work and leisure environments. See project 18 to learn more about this Santa Barbara Spanish-style roofing project where all the roofers were wearing these straw hats.
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Sponsors of Creating Spanish Style Homes
There are Sponsor Spotlight opportunities inside the pages of the Spanish Home Design Photo Blog. New sponsors will be featured within a full length blog episode page such as the example below.
*There are new opportunities for companies to advertise their high quality products for Spanish homes and landscapes. If you are interested in sponsoring a page on the Creating Spanish Style Homes website, please contact me below.
Local Santa Barbara Viva Oliva Products
Viva Oliva is a locally based boutique supplier of fine olive oils (and more). They also sell their high-end products directly on Amazon. Take a photo tour of beautiful downtown Santa Barbara with Lori and I as we film various Spanish architectural elements along the State Street corridor. We also drop in on the Viva Oliva downtown store. See photoshoot 29 to learn more.
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Listen to Jeff Doubét Share More
Listen as I walk you through the features of this “Shop the Look” Store and More page
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“Hey guys, welcome to the Store and More page. My name is Jeff Doubét and I am a Spanish style home designer based in beautiful Santa Barbara, California.
I thought I would put together this page for your perusing. And, basically you’re looking at photography that I’ve shot since 2003. Various different custom projects, Spanish style homes and landscapes that have been built here in Santa Barbara in Montecito.
And, these projects cost a lot of money actually, and… one of the techniques that has been fun is finding inexpensive items from Amazon that can be incorporated into a remodel here.
And (the page) is just a way to share those direct links to the products that you see in the pictures. I am an Amazon Affiliate, and that means that I will receive a small commission if you were to buy through a qualified purchase.
And that helps me build more and more free content for you, so hopefully a win-win. You can see the products being used in context within a home project. And… also, I have shared all the project links to learn more about the project itself.
So, if you click on the project buttons, it’ll take you to new pages where there’s additional photos and a lot more information about actually what was going on in the scene.
So, I hope that you’ll look around, and enjoy the website in general—and Good Luck on your project!”—Jeff Doubét, January 6, 2026
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