[door creaks]
- Hi, A.D.
I'm Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Welcome to my house.
Come on in.
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When I first saw this house, this
this room was packed with photos.
Obviously we took them down.
We painted it.
And we also added this light fixture that I am
pretty crazy about.
This is the main room.
I've been working out of L.A. for 15, 20 years
and now seemed like a good time to find a place.
When I then found this place, you know, obviously
I wasn't sure that my wife was gonna like it,
but I fell in love with it.
So I thought I'm just gonna go for it
and then hopefully she'll agree.
A great friend that also is a good friend
of my wife, Lonnie Castle and her friend Birgitta,
they're interior designers.
They said "Why don't we help you out?
Let's go in and get some furniture and then
it'll be ready when Nukaka comes over."
And they did an amazing job.
And I'm still married.
So, it turned out okay.
We wanted it to be simple, comfortable, and
take advantage of all the windows and all the greenery
and have that be the main attraction, if you will.
Oh, by the way,
this is Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones
and it was made by fans.
I'm supposed to give this to Gwendoline Christie.
Anyway, this chair is really comfortable.
It looks a little weird, but it's amazing.
This, by the way, is kinda funny.
I was doing a documentary all over Greenland.
My wife's from Greenland, and I did this documentary
and at one point I was in a city called Tasiilaq
which is on the East coast of Greenland and
the hunters there as a second source of income
they do handy crafts and this guy made this
piece that I bought.
I really liked it.
The fireplace before had this, it was built out.
It was different colors.
So they put this really simple black one in
and painted it all white.
And this is a funny story.
I had Victor Delfin, the artist from Lima
paint these which are the signs, right?
So I thought this is fantastic.
I'll get three.
I'll get the signs of me and my wife
and then our kids.
Our kids have the same sign.
I thought they had this sign.
I was wrong.
I don't even know the star signs of my kids.
But, you know, you can't know everything.
But I got the two others right.
My wife's and mine.
I'm a leo
and I think they're beautiful.
I talked about this guy I met in Lima, in Peru,
Victor Delfin, and I saw this thing
he, um, he did.
For me it was just like a bird of creativity.
It's basically a
brain exploding with
paintbrushes, I guess.
[laughs]
But I like it.
By the way, this is a very nice table, um, desk.
Usually I have some, my computer and stuff here
but I guess it looks better when it's clean like this.
This of course is one of my favorite pictures.
This is my wife singing.
This is something Birgitta and Lonnie.
It's a metal balloon?
[metal clinks]
it's one of those things where me and my wife said
that's probably not gonna survive after the
Architectural Digest have been around.
[laughs]
You have to ask them about this, by the way.
I know it's art, but I don't
I don't.
I don't understand it.
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So this is the master bedroom.
And it's a fairly simple room.
Nice space.
Good energy.
This bed is made by Tetla.
It's very comfortable.
We actually have these lamps back home in Denmark as well.
They're really good.
This is my family.
This is from Greenland, my wife and myself sailing.
My mother.
My Safina, Fillippa and Nukaka in Greenland.
That is Nukaka and Fillippa and Safina.
We spend quite a bit of time out here on the little balcony.
It's really nice in the morning.
And then the view of course.
We have this fantastic view over L.A.
Of course we have a fern.
You know you need a fern in your bedroom.
Ferns are known to create a lot of
sexual energy in the room.
And, um
it's true.
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This part of the house is for the kids.
So we have Safina in here.
And Fillippa in there.
And their rooms are very basic.
They have a bed and then they can now start
adding whatever they need.
And this is their bathroom.
The very exquisite bathtub was
it was all here.
Everything was here.
But there was a very colorful wallpaper all over
the bathroom and also in the hallway.
But we thought that was a little too much happening.
And also what we like about this house is that
we have windows everywhere and we have the green outside.
So that's enough green.
This is the kitchen, of course.
And we did quite a bit here.
It was brown.
It had very brown tiles.
There were these big cupboards here.
They tore that down, got rid of all the tiles,
painted the cabinets.
Back home it's more like an open plan thing
where you would have the dining room and the kitchen in one.
It's not like a huge travel to go from here
to the dining room.
I can show you the-
it's like about-
let's just count it out.
Yeah, it's four steps.
Four steps and we can manage that.
So this room, what I saw at first was kind of
just a lounge area.
I wanted this to be our dining room slash office space.
This is really where we spend most of the time.
The table was actually designed by Birgitta
and it was built here in L.A. by a local carpenter.
This actually is kinda cool.
I was just in Peru and this is the cut through of
the plant, what's it called, that plant when you wanna
go on a trip and expand your mind?
Wawaska? Waska? Popwaska?
Yeah, ayahuasca.
That thing.
[laughs]
what I like the most is this present
Nukaka gave me for my birthday.
Which is a photographic print by a Danish photographer
called Henrik Saxgren.
It's from Greenland.
It's this enormous iceburg.
Something about that and then you look at both sides
and you have this, the green lushness of California.
It's a nice... contrast.
So I guess our aesthetic taste is kinda what I would say
is like we like it to be simple.
We come from Scandinavia and from Greenland and we
wanted to bring that in here but also of course
you know, we are in California.
I just had one thing.
I was like, I have, I mean there has to be a pool.
You got a place in California without a pool,
that's ridiculous.
And I have a lot of friends here that are from here
they go why? You don't, you're never gonna spend
any time in that pool.
Well, they're wrong.
Let's go out to the pool.
So this is...
I mean this is, I mean I've got a pool.
Very exotic for a
[splashes]
Scandinavian.
These chairs was left by the previous owner
and they're so comfortable.
So, thank you, mister previous owner.
Except for the chairs the whole furniture
is from Denmark.
It's a brand called Skagerak.
And every morning we have berries.
It's not because you are filming here that we just
gotta let these bowls of berries here.
[mouth full]
It's not.
Okay so this is the middle of the garden.
This was the only thing that my daughters told me
that we had to get.
A sunbed, so they could
get some sun, I guess.
And it's all, it's very nice.
Another thing that's very different from back home
in Denmark is of course that it's green all year around here
which is insane to us, and really cool.
This is a, I don't know, is this a lime, or?
It's some kind of citrus tree.
Come on up.
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okay so here we are at the top of the garden
which is the place I call
the top of the garden.
But I love it because you know you can
actually you can look out over Los Angeles and
on a clear day you can see the ocean in the distance.
I mean I just love this place.
Come here at night and you have this little
fire pit and there's a fire going and then you can
sit in your hammock and then this beautiful bench.
I'm sure they look the same all over the world
but it just reminds me of Denmark.
It's a very Danish bench to me.
I guess every place in the world has a word for
a good feeling, that it feels nice, nice atmosphere.
But hygge is this thing we like.
And this is very hyggeligt.
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All right, that's it.
Thanks for stopping by.
A shout out to Lonnie, to Birgitta,
to everyone who made the house happen.
And have a good one.
[Upbeat music]
- Hey, guys.
How you doing?
- Hi. We're the Downeys.
- Hi, everyone. This is Ricky Martin.
- Welcome to my house.
- I'll take you on a little tour.
- Please, come in.
- We both walked in and just felt like
- Like this is it.
- We found it.
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[machine whirs]
- Would you like some?
- Is that a better frame?
Thank you.
- Another favorite part of the apartment is the terrace
overlooking the park.
- I could jump in there but I don't feel like being cold.
You'll never be cold in my pool.
- Does it look like this all the time?
- Uh-huh.
- It does?
- Yeah.
- It's not usually messy?
- No.
[knock]
- Nobody here.
Oh wait, I thought that's a different room.
Nevermind.