- Ah, hey AD what's up?
It's Troye Sivan.
This is my house in Melbourne.
Please, please come inside.
Make yourselves at home.
I have been waiting for this day for my entire life, so.
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- Yeah, I have been living in America for the last,
like maybe, like five or six years,
and I have been so homesick the entire time.
And then when everything got crazy in March,
I came back to Australia to be with my family.
And eventually I was just like, "Wait, what am I doing?
I am so unbelievably happy here."
And I just feel so at home that I wanted to put down roots
and I found this house and I was just like, done.
- [Troye Sivan] Okay. First things first,
this is like literally
the most comfortable couch in the world.
I feel like they,
Oh, people are gonna get mad at me
for not taking off my shoes.
They advertise it as the most comfortable couch in the world
and it's accurate.
It's by this company called Maker&Son.
Fallen asleep here a good, a good few nights.
This coffee table we had made.
It's just a really, really huge log basically.
I hope they didn't cut down specifically for me.
I should have done some, some research.
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- [Troye Sivan] One of my favorite art pieces
in the whole house.
This is my Ramesh sculpture.
The artist Ramesh just is so sick and eccentric.
And she also has a huge penis.
These akari lamps are my favorite.
I think the goal was to have, like, a soup of light.
You know what I mean?
I didn't want, like, hard overhead lighting
cause no one looks good in that.
Just finding soft light, just kind of gently fills the room.
And we kind of followed suit with these pendants.
They're vintage.
And I feel like they kind of look
like alien skin or something.
They sort of feel like what I imagine alien skin
would feel like.
And I love them.
They glow at night.
You guys should have come at night in all honesty.
Cause the house with all the lamps and stuff
it just feels super, super cozy.
This couch is vintage by Percival Lafer.
It reminded me of a spaceship or something.
If you come around the back
you can see there's like this white bathtub situation.
I do always have a cut up Apple tree in my house.
That wasn't just for the AD shoot.
You know, just sometimes you want the branch as well,
for whatever reason.
This little moment, this is my reading nook, or whatever.
And it's super, super comfortable.
So I sit here a lot, have my coffee.
My wish for everyone is that your space is like,
the place that you think of when you meditate.
By using lamps, or candles,
or just, like, your favorite bedsheets.
I want that for everyone cause
it's a really, really nice feeling
to just have a place that's, like, yours.
And you know, you can just kind of kick
back and relax and enjoy your life.
That's what it's all about.
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- [Troye Sivan] I'm going to say this a lot
but I think it's my favorite part of the house.
It just feels really, really chill.
We've got this like awesome green stone.
Look at this table thing.
This is a servery.
I think it's the technique is called end block where
like each of these pieces is a separate piece
of wood that they stick together and then they cut it
and you get this like finish or whatever.
And apparently it's food safe.
So like you could eat your dinner off of it.
But I, I use plates most of the time.
One of my favorite things about the kitchen
is this situation.
Sometimes I stand here and like serve coffees
or whatever to people, if they're in the garden.
All the appliances are integrated, which is sick.
I'm not going to show you my fridge cause it's mostly just
like beer and I'll take out food.
The materiality in the kitchen is, I think, my favorite
in the house, we've got like
All of this black steel and I love the way that it shows.
I don't even know these like sort
of natural markings and then just wood
heaps, and heaps, and heaps of wood because I love wood.
So we did a really, really big renovation on this house.
The kitchen is all totally brand new
but weirdly there used to be a toilet here.
It was still like the kitchen kind of grossed me out.
And so we, we got rid of it
and I'm going to show you where we put it,
cause I think it's kind of sick.
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- [Troye Sivan] Let's go upstairs.
Oh, come here. I want to show you the ghost.
So if you look up here, we've got two art pieces.
Here's a little ghost by this artist named Nell.
It's sand blown glass.
I just think it's so cute.
Kind of reminds me of my dog back in LA
which I unfortunately haven't seen
for like a couple months now.
It feels like a little bit
of Nash in my house, which is nice.
And this is by an artist called Sydney Ball.
And there's another one outside,
which I'm gonna show you soon.
Come upstairs.
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- [Troye Sivan] So here we are on the landing.
This is one of my favorite places in the house
to come and look.
It's kind of lofty and reminds me
of some places that I've been to in like Williamsburg.
There's so many places to sit in the house.
Like, you can be sitting up here,
talking to someone down there
with no worries.
Or could be working at my desk.
Just heaps and heaps of books.
Not a lot of people know this about me
but I am very, very gay.
And so just in case people don't know that
I litter gay homoerotic books all around the house.
Sorry. Don't look, I got this book, Jack Pearson.
One of my favorite photographers.
I shot with him a couple of years ago
And it's just so, so, so sick.
Oh, look at this one.
I got this two days ago.
Hotels of Pyongyang. Super, super, super interesting.
Kind of like finding beauty in everything.
You know, a lot of this is photography
and a lot of the photography I've realized
that I'm most interested in is like documentarian style
like sort of voyeuristic where it's not necessarily
like a set-up photograph or whatever.
You really do feel like you're getting a peep
into someone's life
for just like that, you know, quick second.
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- [Troye Sivan] So this is the guest bedroom
another huge Akari lamp, which I love.
And then also the whole house opens
up onto a park on the side.
And so I just like the idea that if you open
up this window, you get to hear the birds and stuff
in the morning and Australian birds just sound insane.
So these Koch ceilings were original to the house.
It kind of makes the whole house feel kind of like a
a really cozy cave.
And we did the walls in this like Venetian plaster
which is so smooth and soft.
And so I feel like everything just kind of like
hugs you at night.
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- [Troye Sivan] I really do mean it this time.
I think this is my favorite room in the house.
It's my sister's bathroom.
Just like the colors and everything.
It kills me, it really does.
Like flex studio, who I worked with,
did the most unbelievable job.
I'm just like obsessed
with all this detailing and everything.
And there's a massive skylight above my head as well
which is sick.
let's in so much natural light.
So sometimes I just come into this bathroom,
even though it's not my bathroom,
just to kind of like watch how the light changes
throughout the day. Cause it's really, really nice.
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- [Troye Sivan] This is my sister's room, Sage.
Super cozy, super comfy.
She's got this little balcony out here,
another little Akari lamp.
To be able to live with her,
give her like a, a pretty room that she loves
and that she can like make her own
has been so, so, so, so nice.
- My bedroom is upstairs and it's the only thing
that's upstairs.
And I love that like I can just go up to my room
and close the door and it's like,
no one even knows that I'm here.
Come upstairs and I'll show you my bedroom.
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- [Troye Sivan] So this is my bedroom, my little sanctuary.
It's really, really quiet.
This opens up to the park and all of these windows open up.
And then when it's like a really pretty day.
I don't know, I just feel like I'm outside.
It's beautiful. You get a breeze, you hear the birds.
And it's just really, really peaceful.
I spend a lot of time up here.
I chill in this chair a lot.
Which I didn't actually think I did.
I just liked the chair.
Cause I feel like if AD is going to come to your house
you have to have a furry chair.
It's like a rule or something.
I actually use it all the time.
I read a lot in this chair.
Sometimes if I'm feeling lazy, I'll roll out of bed
and then do a zoom meeting like here.
These lamps, are one of my favorite things in the house
and we did these amazing like burgundy carpets
and at night they light up,
and there's kind of this like red glow in my room.
It's like a really nice warm hug.
My closet used to be here, so there was a closet here.
We closed it off because I needed a bathtub.
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This is my bathroom.
This is my bath.
This is where I spend most of my time in this house.
Sometimes I put like my laptop up here.
Watch Netflix.
Yeah, it's really, really peaceful.
There's just like music everywhere.
And so I'll put on a nice album, have a bubble bath.
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- This is my actual, actual favorite part of the house.
I think this is the reason why I fell in love with it
in the first place.
We can fold away these doors
and then there's this courtyard.
That's just like actual heaven to me.
Again, you can see like the LA, California influence,
but then we've also got like a lot of Japanese stuff.
This is called the swamp cypress.
There's little fishies in here somewhere.
I don't know if you can see them.
And then we've got like native Australian,
like doesn't get much more Australian than this.
Or like the big eucalyptus tree.
It's just like paradise for me.
I spend a lot of time out here, watering the garden,
looking after the plants.
So because we took the toilet out of the kitchen
we needed another toilet downstairs.
And so I was like, what if we create this like fantasy
like outdoor toilet situation.
So this used to be a wine cellar, and now it's this.
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- [Troye Sivan] I wanted one of those bathrooms where,
you know, when you go to a restaurant and people are like,
Oh, have you been to the toilet?
You have to go to the toilet.
Just kind of lent into the fantasy and lent
into like a little bit of surrealism.
The walls are all curved, so it's kind of like a cave.
I think the color is called oxblood.
Yeah, I'm just obsessed with it.
It smells really good.
The sun is tucked away.
Sometimes I make it feel like a rave in here.
Like if it's all quiet in the house or whatever
and you're coming in and its like [rave noises]
while you're peeing.
Obsessed, I think it's so dramatic, and extra,
and I love it.
One more thing I want to show you.
I'm getting my phone so that I don't [beep] this up.
Basically the history of this house was in 1874.
This was a handball court.
How long ago was 1874?
146 years ago.
So 146 years ago, this was a handball court.
And then it was turned into a brick factory.
Throughout all of the multiple renovations
that this place has been through, one thing remained.
If you look really close, you can see two handsome men
playing handball in a court.
And then there's this, like, weird sort of spear thing
on the side.
And then you walk over here and it's the same bloody spear.
I really love the idea that this house has had so many lives
and been through, kind of, just so much and seen so much.
I'm only 25 and this house is like 146 years old.
So I'm really, really, really proud and super, super,
super grateful to be able to live here and call it home.
I'm super, super grateful that you guys came
over because this is, like, a really big dream of mine.
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- Thanks again for coming AD I hope you had fun.
I had a lot of fun, but please leave now because we're
about to go into another COVID lockdown and I need to
get my affairs in order.
Thanks for coming.
Bye. Stay safe.
Love you. Bye. Thank you. Bye.