Dr. Terry Dubrow moved his practice from Newport Beach to Beverly Hills—and gave it a complete transformation.
Reconstructive plastic surgeon and “Botched” star Dr. Terry Dubrow transforms the appearance of patients inside his Beverly Hills office and operating room, but it was his “Real Housewives of Orange County” wife, Heather Dubrow, who performed a major makeover of the workspace.
Terry, 68, transferred his longtime practice from its original Newport Beach, CA, outpost to the 3,500-square-foot office space located inside a prestigious medical building on Roxbury Drive in 2022. The professional move followed the spontaneous sale of the Dubrows’ personal Newport Beach mansion and their subsequent relocation to a luxury residential tower in Los Angeles.
While the couple’s $55 million home transaction, which was orchestrated by fellow Bravo celebrity Josh Altman of “Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles,” was filmed for scenes of “Real Housewives,” Terry exclusively reveals the first look at his renovated office space to Realtor.com® in the latest Celebrity Sanctuary.
“This one, so far, has not been on any of my shows,” confirms Terry, who made his reality TV doctor debut on Fox’s makeover competition show, “The Swan,” back in 2004. “Most of what we film, for example on ‘Botched,’ is done elsewhere and in the operating room. Only the post-ops are briefly seen. You don't see my office on-camera.”
Reconstructive plastic surgeon and “Botched” star Dr. Terry Dubrow with his wife, Heather Dubrow. (Todd Williamson/Bravo) 
Terry, 68, transferred his longtime practice from its original Newport Beach, CA outpost to the 3,500-square-foot office space located inside a prestigious medical building on Roxbury Drive in 2022. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
Terry reveals the new office has yet to make its TV debut. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) “Heather designed it. It was her vision,” shares the founder of the health, wellness, beauty, and longevity brand, Consult Beaute.
“She designs everything. Right now we live in a high-rise in Century City. Even though this place was designed by Roberto Cavalli, she's redoing most of it, so she does everything.”
In this edition of Celebrity Sanctuary, Terry charts out the upgrades his place of business underwent to achieve its dramatic before-and-after look. Plus, he explains how transplanting his entire practice has helped him further focus on the increasingly high-risk medical tasks at hand.
“Heather designed it. It was her vision,” explains Terry about his professional sanctuary. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
Square footage was added to the office area by converting storage space into exam rooms. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
The Dubrows selected office furniture and decor that felt "more modern and cool." (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
Wood-colored floors are one of the many earth-toned elements of the office design. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) We had built this amazing home in Newport Beach—22,000 square feet, three floors, a 24-seat movie theater, giant rooms—and randomly, we got a DM from Josh Altman. We're on Bravo together. Heather says, “There's some extraordinarily wealthy Chinese billionaire who's looking for homes in Newport Beach, and he said would you be interested?” Long story short I said, “I love my house so much because we built it from the ground up, I want to be buried there.”
Then he goes, “Why don't we just show it to the guy?” The guy saw it on Tuesday, came back on a Wednesday, and offered us $55 million on a Thursday. Josh goes, “Do you still want to be buried there?” I go, “You can bury me somewhere else for that much money.”
There was a TV show called “[The] Beverly Hillbillies.” The theme song goes, “And we loaded up the truck and we moved to Beverly Hills,” and that's exactly what we did.
I had a big surgery center and a beautiful office down in Newport Beach that I had had since 2000. I commuted for two years. My mom lives there, all our friends are there, and Heather's on a TV show down there as you know.
I just couldn't do the car thing every single day for five days, so I moved up to Beverly Hills.
We have a typical medical office, plus we have a surgery center down the hall. I joined a person who was there and we redid it once I moved in three years ago.
We added square footage to it because there was unused space. We converted storage space into exam rooms, and then we completely changed the office decor, made it more modern and cool.
Terry's workspace also includes a surgery center located down the hall from his renovated office. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
A geometric light fixture that subtly changes color is installed above the table in Terry's operating room. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
Terry says the unique lights are meant to be a "mood setter" that bathe patients in a "warm glow of optimism." (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
The office walls are also adorned with 3D tiles. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) Heather really designed the place according to my personality, which is very light, very optimistic. There's sort of this vibe of “This too shall pass.” Meaning, we've always had this thing, me and Heather, where when it's really bad, the attitude is, “This too shall pass. Don't worry.” When it's really good, “OK, this too shall pass. It's all going to be OK.” That's sort of the vision for this, that you're going to come here with your problems.
You're seeing the “Botched” doctor. You probably have a problem and “This too shall pass.” You're going to go through a process. Be optimistic, even if there's some pain involved, “This too shall pass,” and you're going to come out the other end, and it's going to be good.
It's important because if you think about it, people come in healthy and I make them sick before making them look better. Normally you go to a doctor's office, you're sick and then they try to make you better. I'm going to make you sick before I make you better. In other words, I'm going to subject you to surgical trauma, so it has to be a really peaceful, welcoming environment, knowing that the next time you come back in this office, you're going to be in pain. Everything has to support this kind of calm, relaxed—but at the same time, vibrant [environment]. We're doing something really optimistic and something that's going to make you not only feel good about yourself, but look good, so everything has to be bright and cheery and optimistic, but warm at the same time.
A lot of it is earth tones. We have a tile feature in the wall, these interesting brick-like tiles that have a three-dimensional vibe to them. They come out from the wall. We have wood floors. Earthy furniture tones and some funky art. Some of it looks very biological as if they're culture plates. Some patients said to me, “What is that?” I go, “It puts us in a medical headspace, but it's pretty at the same time,” so there's kind of a nod to the fact that there's science happening here.
In our surgery center, we have these light features that are [hexagons] that change colors gently. It goes from yellow to blue to green, and it just soaks you in optimism. We have them in the OR on the ceiling and we have them in the walls. It’s a light feature that I've never seen before that we thought would be sort of a mood setter. They're always on, and they bathe you in this warm glow of optimism.
There's a room in there that has a fan. I'm very into fans. I like moving air on me. I always have two fans on me. They're very quiet. Before surgery, I sit, and the lights are on the wall and they're changing and I have the fans on. I have a moment of, “OK, what am I about to do?” I visualize because I do very, very, high-risk surgery. I mean, when you come to the “Botched” doctor, you're messed up.
Terry describes some of the art on the office walls as "funky." (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
A few art pieces look "very biological as if they're culture plates," which Terry says puts him in "a medical headspace." (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
The goal for the office interior design was for every element "to support this kind of calm, relaxed—but at the same time, vibrant" environment. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
"Everything has to be bright and cheery and optimistic, but warm at the same time," Dubrow explains of the office decor. (Dr. Terry Dubrow) 
While Terry does have his degrees on display, he says patients come to him for his stellar reputation and the feeling that "something good is going to happen here." (Dr. Terry Dubrow) My typical consult day, rather than people just from Beverly Hills, people come in from all over the world. Almost every patient [is] someone who flew in to see me because they have a desperate problem that they need the “Botched” doctor to fix, so my stuff really needs to be approached with mindfulness, and “it didn't work before for the other doctors, how am I going to make this work?” I’m a Buddhist. There's almost a Buddhism [background] behind what I do. Respect the process, hear the sounds. It's a whole thing I do with visualization.
I used to operate seven days a week. Now, because I do medical, legal, podcasts, I have a skincare line, and I'm an expert in court all the time, I basically see patients three to four days a week. It varies. I saw about 40 [patients] on Monday, but then I did five surgeries the last two days, so I operated from 5 a.m. yesterday until 4 p.m.. The day before, 6 a.m. until 3 p.m.
In my office, obviously, I have my degrees and I recently got board certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine, which I'm very proud of because I'm very into the GLP-1 drugs and peptides and health and wellness and longevity. I've got my board certification plaques … but I don't think people care where I trained. I don't think you need to come to me to be convinced. It's all about, “I’m coming to see Terry Dubrow. How is this experience gonna be?” [Patients] like it. They say that they feel hopeful, optimistic, they feel that something good is going to happen here.
I'm very happy. It's sort of modern-ish, but it's kind of science-y at the same at the same time, and it's all about change and inspiring people to change in a positive way.