Inside Sarah Paulson's Cozy Malibu Getaway | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Hello A.D. I'm Sarah Paulson and welcome to my Malibu

getaway

. Enters. There are three bedrooms. There's a bathroom. A bedroom and a living room. Kitchen. I like a welcome to my living room, which is very small. Everything in the house is quite

cozy

. because of its size, but I think we did some really special things with the space or Amy Kehoe did some really special things with the space. I don't know if it's going to sound strange, it certainly won't to any person who is crazy about their pets. I took my dog ​​to my friend's house, she has a house in the same area and I took my dog ​​for a walk on the beach.

She had never seen my dog ​​so happy, so I actually bought the house for my dog. That's the truth, this table from Green River Project is made of the most beautiful wood, scalloped edge, which I think is an incredibly beautiful touch that really evokes the water, like bringing the beach into the home. This sofa is also custom made for the space because like I said. everything is so incredibly small here there was no sofa on the market that I liked enough to serve on my Malibu

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. This is a beautiful Pat McGann fabric, which is gorgeous.

I know I keep emphasizing how small the space is, but I'm not kidding. All the lovely people here who are helping to make this happen today can tell you that and there are several people behind the camera, very small to me, it almost feels more welcoming that way and I'm not just saying that because it's my space, but in It actually feels like being in a little book nook or something with really, really beautiful touches everywhere that make everything feel really calm and lovely, so for me it's just about finding ways to tune out and every time I I'm near the water I really feel like that's easier outside, this is my kitchen, it's probably my favorite place to be in the house, mainly because of how

open

and airy it is, the ceiling is at its highest point in the kitchen and I have these transom windows at the top of the house that let in really beautiful light.

The reason I love this room so much is that it feels airy and

open

to light and because I'm obsessed with my countertops, Amy found these tiles and the moment I saw them, I felt like they were green. They are like green sea foam, they are like what happens to water when it hits the sand. I often feel like kitchen marble looks like bathroom marble to me and it's usually because it has the same type of veining or the traditional type. gray marble that you often see in bathrooms and I thought this is the most beautiful marble I have ever seen with all the green veins and up close I mean it really looks like it has emeralds cut into it, it is just beautiful.

I have two precious ones. The possessions here that mean something to me, which is my partner, Holland Taylor, I was gifted this amazing piece of art called Paired Deto, which I'm sure I'm saying wrong, but it's by this amazing artist called Patricia Iglesias and actually the had bought. a piece of her art from the Nikki Kehoe store and it was a watercolor and Holland didn't know I had done that and for my birthday she gave me this painting on linen that are all animals, as I have made very clear. They are very important to me and I also have this incredible original print from a photographer named Sam Shaw, who was John Cassavetti's initial photographer and so he was there the day they filmed this scene from Woman Under the Influence with Jenna Rollins and that is by Cassavetti. filming Jenna in that scene and he has a cigarette hanging out of her mouth and that just sums up everything about the way they made movies and she's obviously an actress that means a lot to me and it's very, very meaningful. piece that I actually had in my other house and that I brought here to Malibu to live in the kitchen, so all the hardware here from Philip krangi has a kind of rope quality to it which again was like pulling something from the nautical near ocean vibes, which I really love throughout my refrigerator and freezer.

I decided I wanted two because I knew the space was small, but I know I like having a cocktail since part of the fun of this place is inviting people over. and walk on the beach and carry your drink with you, so I knew I needed a lot of space to put alcoholic drinks and also ice. I'm not a big cook, so I was able to have the smallest stove in the world that also works with the space and I think that's pretty sweet but it's also very representative and indicative of my real lifestyle, which is that she doesn't cook, she doesn't. cook at all.

I was very lucky that the person who built this property even though I changed everything Inside there was a lot of light and all these chants and windows that you know throughout the day change the light which I think is a really lovely thing to have in your face, so all the sconces both in the bedroom and here in the kitchen, these wicker and brass gems are from a place called sewn which is in England and we've been waiting for them for a long time, which is usually the case when you want buy things from afar, the other lighting fixtures are all vintage finds which I think helps.

The house really feels like it is, it's like a

cozy

and homey little place. I tried to make something that still felt like it evoked my spirit, but it's still a little place on the beach, it's not fancy, but it has some incredibly charming nuances. things that make it feel like it's mine hey, I don't know about you, but I really like using a curtain as a

door

, that was our solution so that we wouldn't have what traditionally happens in small spaces, which is the feared thing that I don't have . Go ahead, I don't like it, I don't like the barn

door

, you know, Mazel, talk to anyone who does, it's not a judgment, it's more or less a judgment, but it's okay, you can keep your birth door, but We came up with this. idea of ​​separating the space between the living room, kitchen and bedroom with this amazing curtain fabric from the Amy Kehoe store Nikki Kehoe, which is great, so it does a lot of this, which is good, okay, we're In my tiny little boat cabin. bedroom, which is another thing Amy and I talked about about creating a space where everything had a very specific purpose so that it could be perfectly organized and really cozy, like a boat with an incredibly beautiful Nikki Kehoe thread pendant that I've always I had coveted it and wanted one in my other house and there was never anywhere to put it, so we basically started with this pendant and everything built from there.

Shin in Waka Waka made the base of my bed, which made this. beautiful dusty pink color and again drawers at the bottom for storage because we were trying to make as much space as possible. Oh, this wallpaper is extraordinary. I will tell you that my house color is kind of the exterior background color of this wallpaper, which is iterica gazoni wallpaper I like to call it eggplant I think some people call it eggplant you know tomato tomato sometimes I like to go hard with the color and depth in a small space I think the texture and everything makes things feel womb-like and cozy, which, if you ask me, is a lovely feeling for a bedroom.

I purchased this amazing cashmere blanket from Amy's shop, Nikki Kehoe. Obviously I am very obsessed and possessed by my designer. I think she is a brilliant genius, but this was in her shop and it was the coziest thing, just to me I thought, oh there's too much pattern on pattern and then I thought I don't really care, it's the most Divine, cozy, warm thing. , the reason I talk about this is because I like to put my pets in cashmere as much as possible because they really like it because they're not dumb, you know, I don't have dumb dogs, so the main thing when I'm here is to snuggle up in this bed with my blanket with all my dogs on the bed and my TV that is on this wall is a real Netflix story and quiet here we are in my bathroom which is lined from floor to ceiling with beautiful clay zelig tiles that I once saw one of them I just went crazy and said to Amy: would it be crazy if we did everything by sealing everything?

I'm obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with the way it looks textural and then moves like sequins that are One of my favorite things on planet Earth are sequins. I thought they should be as beautiful and inviting and gorgeous as possible, which I think we've accomplished in terms of finding sconces that we're going to elevate the space, but still. to keep it the way it should be, which is a little house that Amy found. I think on the first few tries these amazing Italian lavender colored rock crystal sconces and as soon as she showed them to me, I went completely crazy about them and wanted to have them. and I thought well, even if it's too glamorous of a chandelier to have in a little beach house, I want it anyway and that's kind of the driving force, I think, in most of the decisions we made here, which was what which would feel more fun and what I'm going to feel luxurious, but also, ultimately, I and again it's a lavender lilac color, which is another watered down version of the plant, so obviously I have a real problem with that.

It is my favorite color. What can I say? You should always be surrounded by your favorite. color I think it does something for your energy and for your mood and for your spirit we're in my lovely, lovely, seemingly small backyard where I also like to do really annoying white girl things on Instagram like drink my tea here, okay ? Of my favorite things about this house I like to walk on the beach and I like to walk on the beach without shoes so we have a great outdoor shower that Amy found that has a special little foot feature where you can just turn it on and take it off all that dirty sand from your feet because I really don't want all the sand on my beautiful wide plank Madeira floors.

Call me crazy, but I don't. I don't even think I have floors that are like Good for water weather or wet feet, but I didn't care. I did it anyway because they are so pretty. I work with this wonderful landscape architect named Sean Femme. Some of this Ivy was all here. I was very lucky that there was so much. green and I didn't have to do any of that, but all the plants, all the pots, Sean made them and I love him so much and he took me to this amazing store called Merit that has all these old containers, all of which are antique and the paint It is chipped.

Chipped ceramic. Beautiful containers to hold all your really beautiful plants. Thank you very much for coming. It's been a great time and now I'd like you to leave my house. Have a great day.