- Hello AD, welcome back to our home in Salt Lake City.
- Finally finished.
We're excited to show you, come on in.
[gentle music]
- So we started building this home two years ago.
We started designing this home three years ago.
This was a from the ground up build.
We have labored so hard over every detail of this home.
You got to see many of those components
on our show "Home At Last."
However, there are many things
that we didn't get to show you.
So we wanna show you right now.
We love this foyer.
We wanted the home to feel cozy and cottagey,
but we still wanted a grand entrance.
- [Rob] Designed the curvature of the stairs,
how it goes up and around, the door at the top.
I think it's absolutely beautiful.
- The reason why we wanted this, the mezzanine, is this.
Hold, please.
I wanted to be able to say,
when someone walks into my home,
welcome to my home.
- [Rob] Yeah, just a little bit of a wow
when you walk into the house.
- So speaking of wow, we didn't want a regular wallpaper.
So this isn't actually wallpaper.
This is a painting on canvas that was kind of spliced up
and then brought into our home,
but it was actually custom painted.
So it hits the right point everywhere in the foyer.
And each of the alcoves has trees positioned in there,
which I think is gorgeous.
When it came to styling the foyer,
we were really particular about it.
We found this burl console and a cabinet
that we loved so much, from Restoration Hardware.
- He's just trying to draw your attention
to this right here, he's trying to drag you to the picture.
- [Tan] I swear to God it's not.
[Rob laughs] But do I love this?
Yeah.
Do I hold it every day and do a mini speech
even though I didn't get to do a speech
on the night? Yeah.
If any of you saw our last "Open Door" in our old house,
I hid away all of the awards because I felt embarrassed.
You can now see that I am very much fully an American
that I'm like, "Why wouldn't I show this off?"
And in the comments all the Brits were like,
"That's so British."
And now you Brits, I know, are gonna be pissed
that I'm showing this, but I feel so proud of it.
It's something be proud of.
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This is technically the living room and it is a living room.
There's a lot of debate about this.
So we have a TV that looks like a picture
- [Rob] Above the fireplace.
- [Tan] Above the fireplace. [laughs]
I'm talking about a couple of people in particular,
Jenna Lyons, Jeremiah Brent. [laughs]
They say you shouldn't have this above a fire.
However, what's all you furniture pointing at
if you don't have a TV in the room?
And secondly, I don't want it to look like a TV
'cause it just looks like a black box.
And I'm not trying to fool anyone.
- [Rob] We're not gonna pretend
that we don't watch TV in the living room.
- I live on TV, in my job and in my private life.
So we have a TV above the mantel.
This is called a club fender.
- I had never seen one before.
I didn't even know what it was.
Oh, a lot of Americans might not understand what it is.
- Okay, well then Americans, I have a PSA for you.
This is called a club fender.
This is something that you have
in fancy English homes, like English manors.
I think it's so gorgeous.
It is so classic that I just think it's magical.
I wanna mention the sofa.
I assumed we were gonna have a sofa custom made.
However, then we visited a vintage store and we found this.
- It's so- - I think it's gorgeous.
- Yeah, beautiful. - I think it's so chic.
I think it's a perfect way to finish off this living room,
fancy receiving room situation.
- [Rob] Oh yeah, absolutely love it.
Already spilled coffee on it, the kids.
- Oh my gosh. - Yes.
So it's well lived in already.
- If you see on my Insta, me posting in my living room,
and it's with a different sofa,
it's because my kids just did it,
like, they destroyed the darn thing.
But for right now, I think it's beautiful.
- It's perfect.
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- [Tan] This is the breakfast nook.
We do use this a lot every day.
- [Rob] A lot, constantly.
- [Tan] Our son, our eldest,
he uses this with his iPad or his box
and he will have his breakfast or his lunch,
which is so lovely.
And then I will cook here for him.
Rob will help feed him.
So we do spend a heck of a lot of time in this space.
Our son has already destroyed these pillows.
This was the choice that was made
so that he would be comfortable, but he's destroying it.
He also loves to come over here and do this
because he loves the sound- - It sings a song.
- That this fridge makes.
And so he says fridge song and it means,
[fridge sings]
that, which I think is absolutely lovely.
And then this is an Indian design.
And this is the design that Rob did, this flower.
So by code you have to have a plug socket on your island.
I have no idea why.
- [Rob] We were sitting there,
talking about how we were gonna fit these.
We didn't want a pop up.
- And I didn't want just these horrible plug sockets.
Gosh, first world problems. I've changed so much.
I really wanted to try and hide the plug socket.
And so I was like, well what if we put a flower here?
The plug socket goes in the middle
and we cover it with something that you can just pop off.
Ain't that amazing? I love that so much.
- [Rob] You saw it here first.
- If I see it in your house, I know you stole my idea.
But take that idea.
Of all the ideas you wanna take, take this.
I think it's so smart. I love it so much.
And therefore, nobody knows,
and it's just some chic little flower.
Spice kitchen next?
- Spice kitchen.
- Ready? Come on.
So-
- Some may not know what a spice kitchen is.
- Oh.
The spice kitchen is sometimes, in like fancy Asian homes,
you have a separate space where you can cook Indian food.
You can close the door
so it doesn't permeate the rest of the house.
And so this does have a sliding door.
We had a home in LA a few years ago
and we purchased this Dolce & Gabbana stuff
'cause it made sense to that house.
However, with our classic house here,
it didn't really make sense in the main kitchen,
but we decided to add it to the spice kitchen because spice.
[both laugh]
So we feel like the bright, bold colors make sense.
And quite honestly, the way this is done,
if you've ever been to India or Pakistan,
our buses are basically painted like that.
So it feels very much in in keeping, I think.
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You've seen all about the dining room on "Home At Last."
I won't belabor this, but I love this.
- Yeah, me too, it's our formal dining space.
- [Tan] Yeah.
- [Rob] And we've used it so many times,
yeah, we've had friends around the table.
- We call it formal dining space,
but there have been many a pizza box-
- Our version, of, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Indian takeout and pizza
is what we've eaten on this table so far.
- To be fair, no, I did cook for Thanksgiving.
- Oh, that's true. - And some friends.
- That's true. - But typically,
yeah, it's not as formal as it might appear.
And the thing we do love about it,
that I'm so glad we did decide to do,
was to add in these doors
because our friends are exceptionally loud.
And so to be able to close up these doors,
and then scream, has made all the difference.
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This bay window, from the outside, it looks lovely,
but the kids really have spent a fair amount of time here.
If you look, you will see my son's face prints.
- [Rob] Uh-huh.
- [Tan] 'Cause he likes to kiss
the city or the snow or the deer.
Often in the morning we'll just have the kids here
and we'll let them look out
and keep themselves entertained.
I love this spot.
It's one of my favorite spots in the house.
- [Rob] Best view in the house.
Yeah. Absolutely. - Oh my gosh, yeah.
- Like, jaw dropping views, so it's a nice place.
It's a nice place to sit.
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- You may remember from "Home At Last",
we said that we don't want our kids in here.
Like, we want just a space for us adults.
- [Rob] And that lasted a day tops.
- Anyone who's at home who's got kids
would've laughed at that comment.
But I do love that our son will get into bed with us,
our eldest, and will just bring his iPad
in the morning, first thing.
And so for the first 20 minutes he will just lay in bed
and just watch a show and it's gorgeous.
- And when he needs some calm time,
he'll come and get in the nook
and say that he's taking a nap in the nook.
- Oh my- - And he'll just lay down.
- I always wanted our children to hang out in this nook,
and the fact that he does, is gorgeous.
Oh my gosh, I love it so much.
And then all of my work,
if ever any of you have a Zoom with me,
I do all of my Zoom calls from here.
I bring this over, I put my laptop on it,
I scoot back and I'm usually
just in a pair of shorts and a tank top,
which is so professional for a Zoom call
with really important clients.
And this is where I do my Zooms.
Since we last saw you, it's looked like this outside.
Please take a look.
- [Rob] We'll get to the balcony someday.
- That's a foot of snow on the balcony.
We're not spending much time out there right now.
- [Rob] It looks beautiful from inside.
- It does look gorgeous.
- Yeah, we just haven't gotten out.
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Primary bath.
Love our cabinets so much, I just think it's all gorgeous.
I'm still so happy with the wallpaper.
- The dual vanities has been a godsend,
having both of them.
- We're still married. - Nailed it.
- Rob had said that he wanted this one.
I said that I wanted that one.
- And it works. - But it changed.
It does work.
My biggest issue is I didn't wanna spit in front of him.
Two months, he's not seen me spit.
- My biggest issue is that I always like to talk to him
while we're brushing our teeth.
- If you try talking with your
mouth full. - Mouth full. Yeah.
- With your brush-
- It's just like an 80s, like, teen movie thing to do.
- I've never understood a single word.
I smile and I go, "Uh-huh",
and then I walk away thinking,
I don't know what he fucking said.
So this closet is Rob's closet.
Lets see Rob's closet.
I have my closet downstairs.
We never showed this on "Home At Last."
Everyone assumed that I would move into this space
and I didn't.
Thank you so much, you naysayers.
- If you will come around please,
you will see a section of the closet that is still empty
that is to receive Tan's collection of daily clothing.
- But yeah, do I keep like five things here?
Yeah, like for my day to day stuff.
- [Rob] Maybe the drawers, check the drawers.
- Yeah, I've got like some T-shirts and some underwear.
It's just my round the house clothes is here.
He was never gonna fill this whole space.
So I've used this small section for me,
the rest of it's yours.
- If you come back in a month, that'll be full.
- It won't. Come back in two years.
And just to piss you off, I'm never gonna fill that.
- Okay, well I'll leave it empty for you.
- Thanks.
[both laugh]
Our favorite thing in the house,
I thought I didn't have a favorite but I definitely do.
Right here.
This is the mouse house.
- Basically an Instagram account.
They post strange listings of homes
and like the weird, crazy things that people do.
And I was swiping through
and I saw this little diorama,
little mouse house, built into the wall.
And I thought, I'm doing that in my house.
- And so Rob was like, okay,
Ismail loves the book "Goodnight Moon",
so let's do a "Goodnight Moon" version.
Every little detail from "Goodnight Moon" is here.
She even included a mini version of our house.
Every night before bed,
our son comes out here with his blanket-
- [Rob] And the book.
- And the book. - The book, "Goodnight Moon",
and he sits in front of it.
- And he says goodnight to everything in here.
- Refuses to go to bed without doing it.
We cannot put him in bed without saying goodnight.
And then right across from the mouse house is Ismail's room.
There are entertainers
who have these really elaborate rooms.
They're kids and they're gorgeous.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're incredible.
We really want our kids to have a nice room,
like a nice nursery.
But we don't want it to feel over the top
because how the heck
do they compete with that in the future?
- But also his bedroom cannot be his play place,
at all. - Also that.
- [Rob] So I know that if there was a slide in here,
if there was, like, if there were things to climb,
he would never go to sleep.
- We were really particular about this space
and I'm so happy with how it turned out.
- Yeah. - And he loves it.
It does feel a little large for a 2-year-old,
but by the time he gets to his teens-
- He'll be a teen and he'll be sneaking
out that window, I'm sure.
- That's our biggest fear,
'cause this is what I would do as a kid.
He will open those windows and just kind of shimmy down,
'cause it's not that long of a drop.
But if you ever do that, you are grounded for life.
- We're gonna find a makeshift ladder
stashed away in here somewhere.
- Uh-huh.
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This is our theater room.
There is so much I wanna say about this space
'cause I love it.
First and foremost, I love this wallpaper so much
and it's designed by, Rob France.
- Me, did it myself.
[Tan laughs]
Didn't paint it myself, but yeah,
we had the opportunity to design a wallpaper.
See, it's meant to look like rice plants,
and the reflection on the water.
Definitely bold, but yeah, I love it.
I'm really, really happy about it.
- Now we're not finished in this space.
We haven't got pillows yet.
We're getting some bar stools that are not finished.
- [Rob] It is a work in progress.
- So the kids do love to play down here.
Ismail loves to bring his cars and play on this stuff.
So it's kind of a dual function.
So many people, including my sister and my cousins
are like, the TV is too small.
However, when we sit, this is the perfect size.
Any bigger and I'd have to move my head
to see the screen- - To read the subtitles, yeah.
- And I'm too lazy to move my head to read.
And so, this 90 inch is it, kids.
So yeah, we spend a lot of time here.
Yes, I know we've got white sofas and children-
- And kids.
- But they are washable,
and the kids aren't allowed to eat food down here.
LOL, I know eventually they will,
but right now they don't eat food here.
- We've stained them with chocolate, so far.
The kids have done nothing,
but we've stained them already.
- I do eat a lot of chocolate at night
and I do drop a lot of that chocolate on the sofa.
But I clean it every time.
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The closet is incredible. [laughs]
- I don't come down here very often.
I'm allowed, but I...
- [Tan] Our kids are not allowed in this.
- [Rob] Our kids are not allowed,
and I've usually got one clinging on.
- I have kept this very organized,
which is much to everyone's surprise.
I finally opened up all my boxes
and now every piece of clothing I own is in this house.
The space wouldn't be as gorgeous without Rob's work.
Do you wanna talk about what you did?
- So, it was a collaborative effort.
So any of the stenciling that you see
was designed by, well, us together.
I drew it up, Tan decided on the colors.
And then we had a lovely painter come in.
- Marjorie. - Marjorie.
She brought it to life,
and I think it looks absolutely beautiful.
Even though we have separate closets,
there is some sharing. - Crossover.
- Styled by Tan France today.
Luckily we wear the same size.
- Mm-hm, and for like nicer stuff, like for events,
you will typically come down to this closet.
- Oh yeah. - And choose something.
- [Rob] Oh, I don't have a tux.
- Yeah. [laughs]
He does have a tux.
If I have a tux, he has a tux.
Whenever there's an event, he comes down
and, well, can choose whatever he wants.
Rob designed the hardware completely.
These are bluebells and he designed the shape of it.
And then it was brought to life by Chris,
which is wonderful, we love it so much.
- We used the blue bell because Tan and his siblings
used to play a game where they had a store
where they would sell flowers
and they would find flowers around the town
and sell those flowers to one another.
And bluebells were the most expensive flower,
the most sought after flower.
- I do wanna make it really clear
to our neighbors from our hometown who already hate us,
we weren't stealing your flowers.
We were taking wild flowers
and then selling those to each other.
We weren't pillaging your gardens.
[gentle music]
Thank you so much for coming along on this house tour.
It's so personal to us,
so we hope you love it as much as we do.
- Thanks for coming, I'm gonna go find the kids.
- Oh yeah, where are the kids?
We better go find them. See you.
- Bye. [chuckles] - Bye.
Get outta here, see ya.