Inside Aaron Paul’s Rustic Riverside Home In Idaho | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Hello, hey, welcome to nice articles, yes, welcome to our

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. I'm Aaron Paul, this is my beautiful wife. You must be freezing a lot of snow. There has been a snow storm here for the last two weeks. We've technically lived here for about six months. Yes, we started building just over three years ago and just finished last July, so this is our first long stay here. It's been a long time until it arrives. Do you want to see the rest of the house? So this is the main meeting room. It's where everyone gathers. The main thing about this house we wanted it to feel like it had been here forever, so we bought these three barns in Wisconsin that were built by this amazing Amish community a little over 120 years ago and then we had them shipped.

We came out of the barns and we just built the house with that wood, talking about wood, get it in that fire, yeah, yeah, too, all the stone you see here is just Montana moss, we shipped it all, this is a piece that had this thing. to be a crane before putting on the roof it weighs 26,600 pounds a pretty crazy piece of stone we play Batman here every morning I'm Armenian so this is important to me and I taught him how to play and now I can't beat him. He, no, that's not true, but this is like our place every morning, we sit here with our coffee, I mean how many times have I sat here and read or just watched outside at the snow fall and always there are families of deer crossing the river, we have two black bears that live in the neighborhood so we will see them from time to time and yes, it is such a peaceful and calm environment that it feels tangible, I don't know, I just like to touch, manageable, I don't know.

I love to play, yeah baby I'm using my big words today, in fact we have this balcony up here that they put up with the idea of ​​being down here talking to the people up there and all our nieces and nephews. Performing there, most people have never been to Idaho and when you hear Idaho, a lot of people think of potatoes, which is cool because I love potatoes, what they don't know, a lot of people know they're just rivers and lakes. , and I grew up. in

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i was born in

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my grandparents built an a-frame cabin on the outskirts of town and i grew up coming there my whole life yeah i feel like people come here and it's like a big exhale it feels really serene and peaceful and you're so good, so this is the kitchen, it's like I wanted it to feel like raw materials, yeah, yeah, we just didn't want to use too many materials, so we have stone, wood, concrete, which is pretty much what what are we. working here in this house we cook a lot of meals here she cooks a lot of meals here I eat a lot of meals this is our refrigerator we wanted it to blend in with the rest of the house everything you see when I say she worked for four years making every decision were you Nervous at all walking in not knowing what to expect?

Yes, I was nervous, no, not at all. I mean, we have the same taste that we really love, the same kind of deep tones and yes, we also really like weird and creepy art, yes, not in a scary way, we are on the same page, yes, that kind of thing , and I mean, I knew what I was about to walk into, but I was also impressed. I mean, I used to live in a closet because I had no money, I literally didn't live, yeah, it was nice not to live in a closet anymore. One of our nieces, Darla, was sitting here making Christmas cards for everyone.

Look at the artist, the artist from far away. I must say hello, I've been thinking about how much I love Christmas and how much I miss you. Being here, I mean oh my gosh, so this is the dining room, it was my birthday a few weeks ago and one of Erin's favorite meals that she makes. It's boyle's crab and he makes this corn pudding which is beyond amazing corn pudding it's like corn pudding, I don't know and we publish newspapers and we're like crabs cracking and eating corn and it's nice to use our hands, you know what?

I mean, we first built the room around this, it was just stacked logs blocking the hallway, but we landed with this, so it's nice to see the front yard. This is our peacock. Her name is Maxine. Hi girl. This property is actually named after her. this one I call my pretty bird and that's why it's called camp pretty bird and that's why we have kind of a bird theme throughout, not in a super weird, weird, creepy way, but in a fun way, in the form of Peacock, this is honestly, I think. my favorite photo of the house just this angle this shot is just magical yes this is our woodshed there is so much snow here and it's so cold so we always have many many many fires going when we decided where our room was going to be we wanted to be as close to the river as possible so it's very nice to sit here in the mornings and there are so many deer that live in this area in the fall and this whole side of the hill changes colors every season.

It's so different, it's amazing, it was important throughout the house, we just repeated the same material, we didn't want to be too busy, so every countertop that you see in the house will be made of concrete, it's just a big piece of stone that we found and some garden and pennsylvania yeah we'd be like driving in the car and be like a baby look what I found and be like a rock something so many rocks on my phone but yeah they're all here now all the floors are really warm, so my tiny feet are really warm right now, which is really nice.

Our amazing designer Jake Arnold pitched an idea and said: What do you think about just

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ing it up and making glass? So I think it's a nice clean look. He really he hadn't seen her before. This is a steam shower. I love a good vapor. I'm always in the steam shower. The bathtub is pretty epic, just sit here and then

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the window a little and get the cold breeze. I feel like this is really unique too. I don't know if I've ever seen it because you would never think of putting a toilet behind glass. Nobody wants to be seen going to the bathroom.

Well, some people may or may not be mine. Favorite bedroom in the house here is our bunk room, so it's full of drunk kids or adults. Normally, yeah, super fun, everyone crowds in here and this is where our particular Max comes out and does his act for us. I love the view. from up here and see the water and how still it is now to be honest this was supposed to be on a much smaller scale and then it just kept growing and fantasies and dreams were born and here we are so here's the bunk for everyone sleeps in that room and we have the sink with a large shower.

This was all put together by local people and our plumber created this so we just wanted you to know so people could relax, brush their teeth and not feel. packed because there are so many people sleeping there now we are going to take you to what we call the crow's den and then with that bird theme, yes this is the funniest part, yes we wanted to have a completely different vibe, super moody , super. sexy, kind of like a speakeasy, we're obsessed with gambling, poker and everything related to gaming, so we play quite a bit of poker here, this is just a little ashtray and, uh, a naked boy urinating in the ashtray, no, it's really us. don't smoke but it symbolizes look you shouldn't smoke kids this is what we call the whiskey hall and the reason we call this place the crows den is this is the crow we love candles so many candles it waxes everywhere this is our little media room we normally have a lot more candy stored everywhere right now we just have hot tamales and gob plugs but hey we've clearly been through it all clearly we spend too much time here and eat too much candy the first movie we we saw here.

It was the show locked in a booth, yeah, and we made little ticket stubs and I had everyone come to the concession at the bar and we watched the glow and now it's frozen, let it go, let it go, here we have two beers on tap. a dark beer and an ipa but all the local beers our beautiful friend abe made them he also made all the

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s in the house but yes, if we start drinking, I'm going to make an old-fashioned Oaxacan, it's very easy to make, she me got this cocktail. smoker and I really love it and it creates some smoke in there.

This type of wood is apple wood and you sit here for 10 minutes until it's ready and you listen well, they'll speed it up. Greetings, my sweet angel. Greetings. Greetings. Oh. It's so good smoky and earthy and it feels like you're drinking a campfire angel, I mean hey look at this, look at those people, oh my god the pressure is there, go look at that look, that's pretty good , almost breaks the light, but it's pretty. well this has always read 420 forever it just literally died at 4 20 and we thought we'll keep it that way the last time we came back we came down the stairs and it said 4 30. and this you have to It's really hard to come up with any number so yes, someone said he removed it and changed it and we still don't know who it is.

Whenever I do a job with work I love I tend to steal things from the sets because if you ask them I always say no this is from El Camino surprise I stole it don't take it from me this is an old print I found , it's a traditional print from uh william, uh morris i used the print as wallpaper on the dresser, some pillows. In the back of the whiskey lounge we made it almost impossible to log into the Wi-Fi, so if you look up to log in to a Wi-Fi, nothing shows up because we hide it and that's why we say look, it's a place to save. your phone just enjoy being chill yeah don't tell our friends this is probably my favorite yeah I definitely use this more than anyone the music is off now but we're always running around like it's a zen garden yeah half the time I walk here. when I know it's here, meditation music, yes, here's the dry sauna.

This wood all came from a tree we dragged from the bottom of one of the local lakes. We were actually thinking about making a dining table out of it, but then after seeing. how it looked after cutting it and drying it we decided to use it here, I mean it's perfect because it's cedar and it smells so good, this is my place here, it's so nice when you're here and just look at a family, a deer walks by and you're sweating and it feels good, you know, this is the uh, I tend to divide my time, but I think I spend most of my time here, but yeah, this is a shopping, yeah, it's very nice and then you go to the sauna, You'll get it, you'll get there someday and then you'll be excited about it, yeah, welcome to the Idaho snow, this is what we do, we pull our little baby. around build snowmen get smashed in the face with snow ahead, try it, hit me good, thank you so much for coming and uh, we hope you enjoyed it at

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thanks for taking the trip to Idaho, we have to go because I promised our baby take her sleigh again, so drive carefully, bye, the locals call it boise and then the people who aren't, they call it boise.

You know it's okay. Boise is great, it's bad, but it's great.