- Hey AD!
- Hey!
Welcome to Idaho! - Nice!
Yeah, welcome to our house, I'm Aaron Paul
and this is - I'm Lauren Paul.
- This is my beautiful wife. - So happy to have you guys!
It must be freezing.
- Lots of snow, it's been a blizzard
out here the last couple weeks, come in!
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We have technically lived here for about six months?
- On and off. - Yeah, we broke ground
a little over three years ago
and just finished this past July.
- So this is our first long stint here,
it's been a long time coming. - Yeah.
- Do you wanna see the rest of the house?
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So this is the main gathering room.
- [Lauren] This is where everyone just comes together.
- Main thing with this house, we wanted it
to just feel like it's been here forever,
so we purchased these three barns out of Wisconsin
that were built by this incredible Amish community
a little over 120 years ago, and then we just
shipped out the barns and we just built the house
with that wood, but-- - Speaking of wood,
get that in that fire! - Yes, yes, yes!
We also, all the stone that you see here
is Montana moss, we had it all shipped out.
- This is one piece.
- Yeah this thing had to be craned in
before the ceiling was put on.
Weighs, what is it, 26,600 pounds.
Pretty crazy piece of stone.
- We play Backgammon right here every morning.
I'm Armenian so this is important to me.
And I taught him how to play, now I can't beat him
which is sad. - No, that's not true!
- But this is our spot, every morning
we sit here with our coffee.
The amount of times I've just sat here
and read or just looked outside at the snow fall,
it's so magical. - And there's always
just families of deer crossing the river.
We have two black bears that live in the neighborhood
so we'll see them every now and then.
Yeah, it's just such a peaceful, tranquil setting.
- It just feels tangible, I don't know,
I just love touching-- - Tangible?
- I don't know, I just love touching everything!
- Yes, babe! - I'm using
my big words today!
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We actually had this balcony up here,
we put in with the idea of just being down here,
talking to people up there, and with all of our nieces
and nephews, a lot of them perform up there.
Most people have never been to Idaho too and
- Rivers, it's trees - When you hear Idaho,
so many people, - it's so beautiful.
they think of potatoes which is great
'cause I love potatoes.
What they don't know, a lot of people don't know,
it's just rivers and lakes and I grew up in Idaho,
I was born in Idaho.
My grandparents, they built an A-frame cabin
just outside of town and I just grew up
coming there my whole life.
- I feel like people come here
and it's just like a big exhale,
it just feels really serene and calm and,
which is awesome. - You're so good!
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So this is the kitchen.
- Just wanted it to feel raw sort of material.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just didn't wanna get
too many materials going on.
So we have stone, wood, concrete, that's pretty much
what we are working with here in this house.
- We cook a lot of meals in here.
- She cooks a lot of meals in here.
- On this-- - I eat a lot of meals.
This is our refrigerator, we sort of wanted it
to just blend in to the rest of the house.
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- Everything that you see, when I say that he worked
for four years making every decision.
- [Woman] Were you nervous at all walking in
and now knowing what to expect?
- Yeah, were you nervous?
- No, not at all.
I mean, we have the same taste,
we really love the same kinda deep tones and,
- Yeah.
We also like a lot of strange, creepy art.
- Yeah like-- - Not in a scary way!
- We're very much on the same page
when it comes to that sorta thing and--
- I knew what I was about to walk into,
but I was also blown away.
I mean, I used to live in a closet 'cause I had no money.
- Literally used to live in a closet.
- So nice to not live in a closet anymore.
- One of our nieces, Darla, was just sitting here
making Christmas cards for everyone.
- Look at the artist! - So sweet!
- 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, my God.
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So this is the dining room.
- It was my birthday a few weeks ago
and one of Aaron's favorite meals that he makes is,
boils crab and does this milk corn that is beyond amazing.
- Milk corn! - It's like milky corn,
I don't know, and we put out newspapers
and we were just cracking crab and eating corn and,
- It's just nice to use your hands
you know what I mean? - It's so fun.
- We sorta built the room around this.
First it was just stacked logs blockin' the hallway,
but we landed with this so it's nice
to just see through to the front yard.
This is our peacock.
Her name's Maxine.
- Hey girl! - This property's
actually named after this one who I call
my pretty little bird, and so this is called
Camp Pretty Bird.
And so we have sort of a bird theme throughout.
- [Lauren] I remember when he
told me that. - Not in a super weird
odd, creepy way, but in a fun way.
In a peacocky way.
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- This is honestly I think my favorite picture in the house,
just this angle, this shot.
It's just magical.
- Yeah.
This is our wood shed, there's just so much snow here
and it gets so cold so we always have
many, many, many fires burning.
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When deciding where our bedroom was gonna be,
we wanted it to be as close to the river as possible,
so it's just so nice in the mornings just sitting here
and there's just so many deer that live in this area.
- [Lauren] In the fall this whole side
of the hill just turns
different colors and, - So many colors.
- Every seasons here is just so different, it's amazing.
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- It was important throughout the entire house
that we just repeated the same interior,
we didn't wanna get too busy, so every countertop
that you see in the house will be made of concrete,
and one's just a big piece of stone
that I found in some garden
in Pennsylvania or something. - Pennsylvania, yeah.
- Deep dive. - The amount of times,
yeah we'd be driving in the car and he'd be like,
"Babe, look what I found!"
And it'd be a stone something,
he's always searching. - I never thought I would
look at so many rocks on my phone.
But yeah, they're all here now.
- All the floors are really toasty
so my tiny, tiny feet right now
are very warm which is really nice.
- Our incredible designer, Jake Arnold, threw out an idea.
He was like "What do you think about just opening it up
"and doing glass?"
And so I think it's just such a nice, clean look
that I haven't really seen before.
This is a steam shower, I love a good steam.
I'm always in the steam shower.
- [Lauren] And the bathtub is pretty epic.
- [Aaron] Just sitting in here
and then having the window open a little bit,
just getting the cold breeze and.
- I feel like this is really unique, too.
I don't know if I've ever seen this
'cause you would never think to put a toilet behind glass,
nobody wants to be seen going to the bathroom.
- Yeah, well some people.
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My baby's sleeping. - Our baby's sleeping
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- This may or may not be my favorite bedroom in the house.
Here is our bunk room.
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- [Lauren] So this is filled with kids or,
- Drunk adults.
- Typically, yes.
Super fun just everyone crammed in here,
and this is where our
- performances happen. - in particular, our nephew,
Max comes out and does his performances for us.
- I love the view from up here and seeing the water
and just how still it is right 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 birthed, and here we are.
So here is the bunk bath for everyone
that sleeps in that room.
And we have the trough sink, big shower,
this was all put together by local people
and our plumber, he created this.
And we just wanted people to be able to kinda wind down,
brush their teeth and not feel crowded
'cause there's so many people that sleep in there.
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Now we are going to take you to what we call The Ravens Den.
- Keepin' in with that bird theme, right?
- Yes. - This is the funnest
part of the house. - Yeah.
This we wanted to be a completely different vibe.
Super moody, super sexy,
kinda like a speakeasy. - Just a whole nother world.
Come into The Ravens Den. - Yeah.
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We are obsessed with gambling and poker
and all things games so we,
- We play poker quite a bit in here.
- This is just a little ash tray
and a little naked boy peeing into the ashtray.
- We don't smoke. - It's really,
we don't smoke but it symbolizes,
"Look, you shouldn't smoke kids."
This is what we call the whisky lounge,
and the reason why we call this place
The Ravens Den is this is the raven.
We love candles, so many candles.
I have wax everywhere.
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This is our little media room.
Normally we have way more candy stocked everywhere.
Right now we just have hot tamales and gobstoppers, but.
- Well clearly we've gone through all of it.
- Clearly we spend too much time in here
and eat too much candy.
The first movie we watched in here was
- "The Shining," perfect! - "The Shining," it was a--
- Locked up in a cabin! - Yeah.
- And we made little ticket stubs and I made everyone
come to the concession at the bar
and we watched "The Shining," and now it's just "Frozen."
- Let it go, let it go.
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Over here we have two beers on tap,
a dark beer and an IPA, but all local beers.
Our beautiful friend, Abe, made these.
He also made every door in the house.
But yeah, should we start drinkin'?
I'm gonna make a Wahakin Old Fashioned,
it's very easy to make.
She got me this cocktail smoker and I love it so much.
I'm gonna get some smoke in there.
This kinda wood is apple wood,
and you just sit here for 10 minutes until it's ready.
- [Lauren] And.
- This is, oh they'll speed it up.
Cheers my sweet angel!
- Cheers, babe. - Cheers, you.
- Oh, it's so good.
Smoky and earthy and feels like
you're drinkin' a little campfire.
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- Should I break them? - Angel, hey.
- I'll break 'em.
- Watch this, watch this people.
- [Lauren] Oh my gosh, the pressure's on.
- There you go. - Wow.
- [Aaron] Look at that!
Look at that!
- That's pretty good!
I almost broke the light but, it's pretty good.
This has always read 420 forever.
- It just happened to literally die at 420
and we're like, we'll just keep it like that.
- It's perfect! - Yeah.
- The last time we came back, we walked downstairs
and it said 4:30, and this thing you have to really wind
to get to whatever numbers so someone--
- Yeah, someone was like, - Took that down
and changed it, and we still don't know who it is.
- Whenever I do a job, well jobs that I love,
I tend to steal things from sets
because if you ask, they always say no.
This is from "El Camino."
Surprise, I stole this.
Don't take away from me.
This is an old print that I found, it's a heritage print
by William Morris, we used the print for wallpaper
in the powder room, some pillows,
the back of the whisky lounge.
We made it next to impossible to sign onto the Wifi
so if you look up to sign on to a Wifi,
nothing shows up because we make it hidden,
and so we say, "Look, it's a place
"to put away your phone, just enjoy just being relaxed."
- Yeah. - Don't tell our friends.
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This is I think probably my favorite.
- Yes, you spend so much time in here.
- I definitely utilize this more than anyone.
The music's off now but we are always running
just zen garden.
- Yeah, half the time I walk down here
- It's like meditation. - and when I know he's in here
and I just hear birds chirping and waterfalls.
- Yeah, just meditation music.
But yeah, so here's the dry sauna.
This wood all came from a tree that 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 what it looked like
after it was all cut up and dried out,
we decided to use it here and it's perfect
'cause it's cedar and it just smells so, smells so good.
This is my spot up here.
It's so nice when you're in here
and you just watch a family of deer walk by
and you're just sweating your ass off
and it's just, feels nice you know?
This is the wet sauna, I tend to split my time
but I think I spend the majority of my time in here.
But yeah, this is the vibe.
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- His favorite thing to do that he tries to get me
to do every day is sit in the sauna.
- I lay in the river.
- Lay in the freezing cold river.
- Yeah, it's so nice. - Back in the sauna.
- And then you go in the sauna.
You'll get there one day,
and then you'll be excited about it.
Yeah, welcome to the snow of Idaho.
This is what we do.
- Yeah! [Lauren laughing]
Yeah, snow!
Tug our little babe around, build snowmen,
smash each other in the face with snow.
- [Aaron] Go ahead try it, hit me!
Awe!
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[glasses clanking]
Well thank you so much for coming AD,
we hope you enjoyed - Thanks, it was so fun!
- Our home, thanks for making the trek to Idaho.
- Yeah. - We have to go
'cause I promised our baby girl
to take her sledding again, so drive safe.
- Bye! - Much love!
- Bye! [upbeat music]
- The locals, they call it Boise,
and then people that aren't, they call it Boise.
It's fine.
Boise's great, it's wrong, but it's great.