- Hello AD,
I'm Sarah Paulson
and welcome to my Malibu getaway.
Come on in.
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There's three rooms,
there's a bathroom, a bedroom and a living room
slash kitchen.
I like a slash.
Welcome to my living room, which is really tiny.
Everything about the house is quite cozy
because of the size of it,
but I think we did
some really special things with the space,
or Amy Kehoe did some very 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 wild about their pets.
I brought 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,
I've never seen my dog so happy.
So I actually really got the house for my dog,
that's the truth.
This Green River Project table
was made of the most beautiful wood,
the scalloped edge,
which I think is an incredibly beautiful touch,
really evoking the water,
kind of bringing the beach into the house.
This sofa, also custom made for the space,
because as I said, everything is so incredibly small here,
there was no sofa on the market that I liked well enough
to serve my Malibu getaway.
This is beautiful fabric from Pat McGann, which is gorgeous.
I know I keep stressing how small the space is,
but I'm not kidding,
and all of the lovely people in here
who are helping to make this happen today can tell you,
and there are several people behind the camera,
very small.
To me, it almost feels cozier that way,
and I'm not just saying it because it's what my space is,
but it actually feels like being in a little
book nook or something
with very, very beautiful touches all over that
just make everything feel really peaceful and lovely.
So, to me it's just about finding ways to unplug
and anytime I'm near the water,
I really feel like that's easier.
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This is my kitchen,
it is my favorite place to be, probably in the house,
mostly because of how open an area it is,
the ceiling is at its highest point in the kitchen
and I have these transom windows at the top of the house,
which let in really gorgeous light.
The reason I love this room so much is that
it feels airy and open and light
and because I'm obsessed with my countertops,
which Amy found these slabs
and the minute I saw them I was just like,
"They're green, they're like sea foam green,
they're like what happens to the water
when it laps up on the sand".
I often feel that marble in the kitchen
looks like bathroom marble to me
and it's typically because it's the same kind of veining
or the traditional kind of gray marble that you see
often in bathrooms
and I thought, this is
the most beautiful marble I'd ever seen,
with all of the green veining and
up close, it really looks like there's cut emeralds in it,
it's just gorgeous.
I have two prize possessions in here
that mean something to me, which is,
my partner Holland Taylor got me this
incredible piece of art
called Perdido, which I'm sure I'm saying wrong
but it's by this incredible artist named Patricia Iglesias
and I had had actually purchased a piece of her art from
the Nickey Kehoe store and it was a watercolor
and Holland did not know that I had done that
and for my birthday, she got me this painting on linen
that is just, it's all animals, which,
as I've made very clear, are very important to me.
And also I have this incredible original print
by a photographer named Sam Shaw
who was John Cassavetes onset photographer.
And so he was there the day they were shooting this scene
from, "A Woman Under the Influence", with Gena Rowlands
and that is Cassavetes shooting Gena in that scene
and he is got a cigarette hanging out of his mouth
and it just sort of encapsulates
I think everything about the way they made movies.
And she obviously is an actress
who means a great deal to me and
it's just a very, very meaningful
piece that I actually had in my other house
and I brought here to Malibu
to live in the kitchen.
So all of the hardware here by Philip Crangi,
they have a kind of rope quality to them,
which again was like pulling in some of the nautical,
close to the ocean vibes,
which I really love.
All of my refrigerator, freezer,
I decided I wanted two of them
because I knew the space was small
but I know that I like to have a cocktail,
like part of what feels like fun about this place
is having people over and taking walks on the beach
and taking your drink with you
and so I knew I needed
plenty of space to put booze
[light chuckling] and also ice.
I'm not a big cook,
so I was able to have the world's tiniest stove,
which also works with the space
and I think it's quite sweet,
but also is very representative
and indicative of my actual lifestyle, which is,
she doesn't cook, she doesn't cook at all.
I was incredibly lucky that
the person who built this property,
even though I changed all of the interior,
there was so much light and all these transom windows that
throughout the day, the light changes,
which I think is a really lovely thing to have in a space.
So, all of the sconces, both in the bedroom
and here in the kitchen,
these wicker brass gems are from a place called Sewn,
which is in England
and we waited a very long time for them,
which is often the case when you want to buy things
from far away.
The other light fixtures are all vintage finds
that I think help the house feel
truly what it is, which is just like a little cozy,
homey place that I tried to make something
that still felt like it was evoking my spirit, but,
it's still a little spot on the beach,
it's not fancy, but,
it has some incredibly nuanced lovely things
that make it feel like it's mine.
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Hey, I don't know about you
but I really like using a curtain for a door,
that was our solve so that we did not have
what traditionally happens in small spaces,
which is the dreaded barn door.
I don't go for it.
I don't like the barn door.
Mazel tov to anyone who does, it's not a judgment.
It kind of is a judgment, but it's fine,
you can have your barn door.
But we came up with this idea of separating
the space between the living room and the kitchen
and the bedroom with this incredible curtain fabric
from Amy Kehoe, Nickey Kehoe store, which is great.
So, it does a lot of this, which is nice.
Okay, we are in my tiny, tiny ship's cabin of a bedroom,
which is another theme
that Amy and I talked about,
about making a space where every single thing
served a very specific purpose,
so it could be tight, tidy,
and really, really cozy, like a ship.
With an incredibly beautiful Nickey Kehoe string pendant
that I've always coveted
and wanted one in my other house
and there was never really anywhere to put it, so,
basically, we started with this pendant
and everything sort of built out from there.
Shin at Waka Waka made the base of my bed,
which is made this beautiful dusty rose color and again,
drawers on the bottom for storage,
'cause we were trying to make as much space as possible.
Oh, this wallpaper is extraordinary,
I will tell you that the color of my house
is sort of the background exterior color of this wallpaper,
which is Idarica Gazzoni wallpaper,
I like to call it aubergine,
I think some people call it eggplant,
you know, tomato, tomato.
Sometimes I like going hard with color
and depth in a small space.
I think a texture of it and everything
just makes things feel kind of womb like and cozy,
which if you ask me,
that is a lovely feeling for a bedroom.
I got this incredible cashmere blanket from Amy's store,
Nickey Kehoe, I'm obviously very obsessed and possessed by
my designer, I think she's a brilliant genius.
But this was at their store
and it was the coziest most-
It just to me, I was like,
"Oh, is this 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'm talking about it is because
I like to put my pets in cashmere, as much as possible,
because they're very into it, because they're not dumb.
You know, I don't have dumb dogs.
So the main event really when I'm here
is to cuddle in this bed
with my blanket,
with all of my dogs in the bed
and my television that is on this wall,
it's a real, "Netflix and Chill", sort of story here.
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We are in my bathroom,
which
is
floor to ceiling tiled
with beautiful Zellige tile from Clay Tile,
which once I saw one of them,
I just went nuts and I said to Amy,
"Like, would it be crazy if we just did the whole thing,
ceiling, the whole thing?".
I'm obsessed with it,
I'm obsessed the way it looks textural
and then it moves like sequins,
which are one of my favorite things on planet earth,
is a sequin.
I thought it should be as beautiful and inviting and
gorgeous as possible, which I think we have achieved.
So in terms of finding sconces that we're going to kind of
elevate the space but still kind of keep it
what it should be,
which is a little tiny house.
Amy found, I think on 1stDibs,
these incredible Italian
lavender colored like rock crystal sconces
and as soon as she showed them to me
I just went absolutely nuts for them
and wanted to have them
and thought well,
even if it's too glamorous a sconce to have
in a little beach house,
I want it anyway.
And that is sort of
the driving force, I think,
in most choices that we made here, which was like,
what's going to feel the most fun
and what's going to feel luxurious
but also just ultimately me.
And again, it's a lavender lilac color which
is another watered down version of
eggplant.
So I obviously have a real problem with that,
it's my favorite color, what can I say?
You should always be surrounded by your favorite color,
I do think it does something for your energy
and for your mood and for your spirit.
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We are in my lovely, charming, exceedingly tiny backyard
where I like to also do really annoying
white girl on Instagram things like, drink my tea out here.
Okay, so one of my favorite things about this house,
I do like to walk on the beach,
and I like to walk on the beach with no shoes on.
So we have a great outdoor shower that Amy found
that has a special little feature for the feet
where you can just turn it on and
get all that dirty sand off your feet,
because I really don't want all the sand on my beautiful
wide plank Madera floors,
call me crazy,
but I don't.
I don't even think I got floors that are good for water
weather or wet feet, but I didn't care,
I did it anyway, 'cause
they're so pretty.
I work with this wonderful landscape architect
named Sean Femrite.
Some of this ivy was all here, I got very lucky
that there was so much green
and I didn't have to do any of that but,
all of the plantings, all of the pots,
Sean did and I just love him to pieces.
And he took me to this incredible store called Merit
that has all of these old vessels,
all of which are antique and paint chipping,
pottery chipping beautiful vessels to hold
all of his really beautiful plants.
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Hey AD, thank you so much for coming by,
it has been a great time
and now I would like you to
get out of my house.
[lightly chuckling]
Have a great day.
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