hey dee i'm genevieve padalecki
and i'm jared padalecki welcome to our
humble abode here in austin texas come
on in come on
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this is the main room of our house this
is where
we hang out with the kids and watch
movies and eat sometimes and it's too
late to have them sit at the table
i mean it really is the heart of our
home the kitchen we have a big garden
outside and we like to bring in the
vegetables and the fruits from our
garden and the kids all kind of
gather in this area and we really wanted
to create a space that wasn't formal
everyone felt welcome and that you can
open up the fridge grab your food
go sit at the table nothing is precious
in this house
it's very livable and i just casual is
the biggest thing and we really want
everyone
who steps into this house to feel like
it's their home and they're welcome
so we kind of laugh when people say like
hey shouldn't take my shoes off
well there are three dogs inside and
three one kids
yeah chickens and whatever so make
yourselves at home yeah exactly
we're not precious about this we we love
it it's our home but our home
is your home i also really love it
because not only is it pretty
for me but we use everything so our kids
do like to come up here
they grab their pots and pans we grab
eggs from the chicken coop and then we
come over here to the oven
and we are all making breakfast or
dinner together and
so everything is like really usable and
user friendly
we'll hop in and just kind of get get
this going
i think the elf on the shelf likes our
pimple likes our bowl he needs a name
harold harold harold is his name
we did a really big remodel on our house
which
if you want to test your marriage do a
remodel because that was a tough that
was a tough one for us but we
we got through it and we brought both of
our ideas to the table which is really
fun
a lot of the homes here in texas are old
german homes
and they have these kind of beams and so
we really wanted to replicate that
feeling and make it
feel as if the home was an old homestead
that have been here for hundreds of
years
they're douglas fir beams we chose not
to
treat them or stain them or paint them
and just leave them
as they were to age when we originally
bought this home
this is very sort of compartmentalized
and we wanted it open we got kids
we have dogs i'll come out of the
bedroom sometimes and there'll be a kid
here i'm like
hey hey mr powder lucky and it's a
neighbor and they're here just watching
tv or playing nintendo or something
and so we wanted a big open space where
everything was visible we could see the
kids running around see what they were
doing keep an eye on them but also
support them and so that's why
we really dug this and using really kind
of
small air conditioning ducts was another
big part because here in texas it gets
to be 100
degrees plus for 60 days out of 70 in
the summer months
and so we didn't want these massive
when you turn the volume up to a
thousand no one cares about air
conditioning
but i mean like i care about this is the
engineering and he's like listen this
house is powered to make sure that you
stay cool
not true this is the part where i'm like
i want to stay cool to help with
everybody else
i just want air conditioning in addition
to like lounging we also wanted it to
feel layered and cool and
comfortable and so a lot of the pieces
that
we end up finding like this pattern here
which i think is a ralph lauren
mixed in with this guy you know just to
kind of give it some texture
and color and and make it a little bit
fun again
just cozy just cozy and friendly and
come one come on
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this is the dining room we really wanted
to make it fun and casual
again like this house is crazy and it's
chaotic we
refer to it as the house of chaos so we
really wanted fabrics and
materials that you know we could get
dirty and mess up when we were
designing and decorating the house i was
in houston with our designer virginia
davidson
i found this old sewing table that i
mean it was just stunning it was
out of our price range and it was too
big but we had these
artists from los angeles who actually
helped us with our house in la and
they're these just incredible
woodworkers and artisans and they made
us a replica of the table which
you can see here and it can seat an army
this is sometimes a lego table
yeah sometimes a school work table yeah
homework
sometimes a board game table and
sometimes um
a family dinner table this mirror was
actually found by our designer virginia
davidson
and it was taken from an old bar and it
just kind of
became a great piece for our dining room
and it really provides
a lot more light as well also above i
know it looks strange and we don't have
any hats on there currently but it's a
hat rack
for me it's a hard drive for me because
there's nothing single other person
that can reach up there this is one of
the only mirrors that he can probably
see himself
into because all the other ones i always
end up hanging them a little too low
because i'm five four and he's six four
so this is the one mirror that he can
actually see himself in
so this is our main house kind of wet
bar area where we have
you know sodas and cokes and some red
and white wine and a little ice machine
which is par for the course in texas
because everything is with ice ice tea
ice water everything sonic ice sonic ice
uh
which is the really small cube chew one
that's so good
on your teeth and this leads to our
favorite bathroom
we came across this wallpaper gracie
wallpaper that does all these really
beautiful murals
and we wanted it to reflect on maybe
what austin was like
hundreds of years ago and so you can see
a sort of bucolic scene and
all these cool homes and the river and
and then we have our house right here i
was pregnant at the time
so i'm pregnant or our daughter is in
the little buggy and then the two boys
and then we have smalls our favorite
chicken
well we are chicken owners uh proudly
and we love our chickens
and so sometimes when uh our chickens
leave this world we'll try and honor
them
by keeping them around in the powder
room and the powder room
uh and elsewhere like my wife
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so this is my sanctuary this is
our library slash my office
and it's really where i hang out most of
the time
i love love collecting books it's the
one thing that i
will never apologize for and love to
encourage initially when we rebuilt this
house
this room was sort of an annex slash
baby room we didn't want to put her
upstairs because if she was crying or
didn't
feed or she woke up need a new diaper
and the night we didn't want to
either a not hear her or be hear her
so this is kind of the irony is she was
in our bed the whole time she's in our
bed the whole time most time
but initially this started as an easy
entrance
to go see her without waking up our
young sons at the time
um and so let's take them through the
secret door
every cool house
what's the password open up
come on
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okay so this is our main bathroom and we
wanted it to be fun and colorful again
this is my singular
only request request for the house
this way i can take a bath i can hang
out
and i can watch tv and of course dude
sorry i'm obsessed with maison c
wallpaper it's just
so stunning and so beautiful it makes me
happy and we like to make up names for
the beautiful women in this bathroom and
what they are doing
because who knows it looks like they're
having a lot of fun
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in texas they'll make the main room
enormous
and so this actually used to be a part
of what was the main room
in the house we bought it before we
remodeled it so we purposely
made the main room smaller so that it
felt more cozy like so it feels like a
hug
a warm blanket and this room is also fun
because it's just the right size
for jen and me but also during the crazy
snow week or on a fun weekend
we'll have the kids and we'll have one
kid in a sleeping bag
on the ground we'll have our daughter
usually on
a pack and play right here trying to
peek out and keep the brothers awake and
then we'll throw another one of the
kiddos
on our little fun chase yeah and because
it is used so often by our kids
we've acquired some big massive holes in
this
um well earned our philosophy is rather
than replacing things like let's
fix this bed was also made by the same
artisans that made our kitchen table
and they made this stand they made the
one in the family room
and then these are all once milano they
do all these natural linens
that are so great love their stuff
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so this is our piano area where our kids
like to serenade us when they're playing
we like to hang out over here just sit
around and smell
fresh burning fire this fireplace this
is really special to us
because it came from an artisan in
fredericksburg
and he did it solely by himself he hand
chiseled
the pieces and he also installed it by
himself
and he would use hand cranks with chains
and we had to actually leave the house
yeah that's what makes the process so
beautiful i think this is where santa
comes obviously so we have a place for
our stockings and a walker poker a
walker
poker is that what it's called no what
is it called a brand oh wow
so let us take you upstairs and we have
these geese flying by
with this landscape and just playing
again with nature we really enjoy
the outdoors obviously so try and
incorporate nature wherever we can
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so this is tom's room who's our
nine-year-old
but our seven-year-old ship usually
sleeps here
and tom there and we can hear them
laughing and joking and playing
all night like stuffed animals to each
other so then across from tom we have
chet
and shep is really into animals he's
usually in here playing legos yeah
usually this floor
you'll get your feet would hurt because
you're usually like shoes to walk in the
air
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this is a fun room it's very colorful
you know with kids
again like they get messy and so there's
lots of fun colors and stuff to play
with we actually
painted these echopoly chairs ourselves
this light fixture is really special
it's from a company in france called
warren and leticia
it's made from recycled plastics and
it's also the first
in the united states shep did the lego
set they love star wars
they love star wars lego chess set we
love it and then right across from here
the kids grab books and you set yourself
down and
read something we have a couple books
here this used to be a grand
entrance to the house but going back to
kind of the way we wanted our home to
feel
we didn't want to be a a grand house we
wanted to be a cozy home
yeah so this part of the floor didn't
exist yeah it used to be
yeah you could see the front door
underneath us
and we were like well a reading look
would be really awesome and
really useful and we don't need some
massive entrance to our house so we're
going to feel cozy
so we have this little landing area
again like pl we just want playful and
fun and so there's
bienvey wallpaper wallpaper is kind of
my jam i just
i dig it so because we have two sons and
one daughter
obviously the daughter gets the biggest
room and so this is little odette's
little private haven and she is just the
queen of her own world
so this right here was a changing table
for
at least shep and odette but was it tom
shep and our dad tom sheppa no debt and
it was replicating
like an old wash basin and instead we
turned what would be a wash basin into a
changing table yeah
and our daughter hasn't had a diaper in
years maybe i could sit on it it is kind
of like a
a i'm tall enough for it to be a bench
for me i just knocked the stuff off the
wall
it's fine it's really quite crazy all
right i'll re-hang yourself back up
look at that this is through odette's
bathroom
where we showcase the real artists our
kiddos
and then at the end i have a real
problem with mushrooms
you're calling 911. we kind of think of
what to do we were thinking like it
would be kind of cool to have one of
those phone booths that not like the not
like the british one but like
the office working ones but they don't
make them small enough because i'm like
i would just
hide in here all day
the kids take this stairwell quite often
there's lots of running down the stairs
which is why we have runners too and
ones that can get beaten and dirty
so this is our mud room and also where
we
honestly enter and exit in the house and
it's purposely a little bit
full of patterns because this is where
we throw all of our crap like
kids shoes are usually over here our
vegetables from the garden
and then we also have this great big
awesome door that's a dutch door so we
can open up the top
and you know use it to check on the kids
or let in a little bit of airflow
when the bugs aren't so bad here in
texas
we really wanted to create a an area in
an outdoor area where we could
eat some of the plants and also play
some sports and
everything was like really usable so not
only are most of the plants usable
and edible but our yard everything is
for jumping
and soccer and football and a little
outdoor seating again
our yard has a few levels and so it's
nice because you get like this view
of where the kids would go but we'll sit
here we'll cook
we'll grill and then you'll see these
are our kitchen windows
so that we can grab herbs and toss them
in
lots of meyer lemons tomatoes just
usable
so we have our little hammock and
hammock chair
this is koda he's two
and he just hurt himself so he's just
chilling
when we first bought this place the
backyard
looked like it does back there but we
wanted to kind of make it a little bit
more usable for the kids for ourselves
so we kind of built this tiered system
leading down to our pool which certainly
has been worth its money
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this is where we go to cool off and hang
out and we'll watch
sports out here on sunday for nfl or
we'll just jump and play and bring
everybody over for a
birthday party but we built this kind of
shade space
and again in texas i think it's very
machine kegerator and then a little
fridge and
a just dishwasher yeah we spend a lot of
time out here i'm about to jump out
the house came with this rad sports
court i'm not a basketball player but i
like to watch
usually it's taller but dad likes to win
so if dad's playing the kids i want to
make sure i have
an advantage that they don't know about
yet so that's why it's here there we go
we'll leave that for one of the boys to
come get
hey can you show us what's going on
we have a blackberry bush we have a
couple all along here
this has been our like herb garden so
our cucumbers have done
really well these are all from baker
creek can you hold it
it's so heavy you show your muscles
yeah oh that's a big one can you pick it
okay can i eat it do you want to eat our
immediate uh
this piece is our chicken coop we have
some fancy chickens
we had all kinds of animals growing up
and we raised chickens
at one point when we lived in montana
and it was so fun to go and grab the
eggs and it was something
i really wanted for our kids it's just
really fun
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a good time
now uh you don't have to go home but you
can't stay here