hi ad I'm Shay Mitchell and welcome to
my home
I moved into this house about four years
ago it was built in 1920s
it's kind of has like a Spanish
Mediterranean feel to it a little bit of
Moroccan I didn't really know what I
liked until I saw it
luckily I'm very fortunate to have my
good friend Chad would come and really
help me make sense of the house and
truly it didn't look like this until 2
a.m. last night
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this light above here funny story I got
this light not thinking that you
actually had to make sure the ceiling
could hold it and because it's actually
a thousand pounds it stood like that
what hung like that without any sort of
crystals for about two years until I
finally got the ceiling so that it could
hold it hopefully it really can hold
1,000 pounds of crystals this is our I
think it's a formal living room one of
my favorite things about this room it's
definitely this light fixture I found it
in Morocco and had it sent over here and
I just love what it does to the room
especially at night when it's dark we
just turned this light on and it just
spews like all these different beautiful
light speckles around the room which is
really pretty
Chad anything else ok so true story
funny fact you have to come over here
yes you are I worked with a couple
different designers and it never just
really came together how I wanted it
Chad being the amazing friend he is came
in and really helped me work with what I
already had I mean she already had a lot
of great staple pieces that she wanted
and then we just kind of built around
that and I always have a love of you
know finding vintage so I mix vintage
with new and old and just kind of have a
lived-in space that she wanted to seem
very well-traveled which she is each
piece is very unique and specific to
Chad and I met oh my gosh when I was in
my old house
he is my florist friend hair stylist
designer a fire starter painter chef all
of these little touches and pieces are a
mix of what Chad brought in and what I
have found from some of my travels this
is from Morocco these are from one of my
favorite vintage stores in LA I called
pop-up home you went in and you found so
much stuff from that place he brought it
all back and one of my favorite things
is to come home and just see about half
with like new additions to it this tree
stump is actually from the front of my
house I cut it down two weeks ago I'm
just kidding
this tree stump this is from a vintage
store a friend of mine brought it into
the room and I just loved it because it
really just made it a lot more earthy
yeah I mean mixing materials is really
what we've gone for this ceiling and
these walls were again a different color
all of these little white beams were
painted dark and then we wanted to tie
in like these beautiful stained glass
windows that were obsessed with and then
we were just casually up til 2:00 last
night painting this fireplace yeah it
was tiled before and it was something
that I enjoyed years ago but now I want
it to just be super clean so I just
whitewashed the entire thing
cost-effective this probably cost us 70
bucks and it was gonna cost this a quote
for like 3000 yep I owe you a dinner
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so this dining room again has had many
different iterations of what it is now
what about the chairs
I love these chairs you sent me a text
finder dining table because she wanted a
lot of dining chairs because she thinks
she's gonna have big parties we don't
invite anyone over
it's literally us these chairs you sent
me a text message and I remember I was
at a stop like he sent me this photo I'm
like oh my gosh these are amazing he's
like if you don't buy it in the next 15
minutes they're gonna disappear and
they're really hard to find what did I
have before when I first moved in here I
think I had lilac velvet chairs yep
dark redwood table dark redwood table
with a crystal chandelier I had about
five different like pictures in
here everything went through so many
changes because the one thing that you
never changed were the red wood floors
finally I was just like nothing you're
gonna keep changing this house over and
over it's never gonna feel good too
until you change the floor so we had
them sanded down
we bleached them twice and I feel like
it changed it changed the entire vibe of
the house is probably the best money
we've ever spent yeah I agree and then
and then you found this again at pop-up
home and I love this because I always
see it in like fancy houses a little
pedestal it actually started in here you
brought it upstairs and we put it in the
nursery because you know a baby's room
needs a pedestal with a flower
arrangement this is the kitchen and it
always looks like this which is you know
lemons can you even we honestly just
like did minor tweaks to this kitchen
but we painted this island black we of
course changed the wood floors and here
painted the ceiling a warmer color
because there's so much tile detail that
you never really noticed it because
everything is white but all of these
walls are wrapped in tile which is so
beautiful and then the cabinet's the
cabinet's on the inside of those were
all white before and Chad was like you
need to have all the same kind of play
it's all white keep it fresh charcoal in
the back so that everything pops and at
first I cursed his name because I had so
many mix-matched plates but then four
please I had about four plates no she
dinnerware for 200 but again just us
it's just us
I actually about ten years ago had a
photo of this kitchen saved on my
computer and I remember loving this
kitchen when I saw it then when the
house came available for sale I was just
looking at the house and I realized it
was the exact same kitchen as the one
that I had saved on my computer yeah
this is probably the kind of table that
I should have it's perfect for just you
and me angel but we said we don't even
sit here we sit here always sit up here
it's like engaged there's plugs like
plug things in and the fast food comes
here that's true
this is angel she is a model dog no
truly she likes to get into every photo
in every shot whenever were filming here
but she is
her outfit it does I dyed her to match
the rest of the house so she was
originally a different color this is the
entertainment room so this bookshelf I
think we saw it in
what was it I think we saw an
Architectural Digest there was this
beautiful room with a bunch of books all
turned the other way it's like late and
I'm like let's change the bookshelf
change the bookshelf but we changed the
bookshelf one time we turned all of the
books the other way so you could just
see the pages my boyfriend came home and
couldn't find something he was looking
for so I realized that's probably not
the best thing to do when you have a
bookshelf at this size and it can easily
be too busy with books so by like
categorizing them all into colors it
makes it kind of look like art and this
was a couch that I had custom made we
made it so that it was super wide that
it could fit friends that were six eight
and it's really the place where I hang
out anytime I have a day off this is
where I am here posted my post mates
watching TV I'd say this is probably the
most used room in this house and it's
dark and sexy and very much on mood and
vibe to you these accent pillows were
actually brought in this morning after
Chad finished painting the fireplace he
brought him these pillows before that I
had these black and white ones that you
said we're too harsh for this room in
this couch is really comfortable even
for you I mean beam 6:8 come on
show everybody how yes it's comfy so
deep and then we put our feet up on here
watch our stories that's where our
stories are shows
I just like to call it shows stories we
watch all of our stories oh you just
added those candles I love that what she
loves about crystals is because I told
her crystals were chic and that she
needed crystals crystals are great for
energy I love to have like elements in a
room so I always like to have like fresh
flower arrangements candles lit earthy
like stone I like leathers and like I
don't like sage which makes me sneeze
okay
this is a recent addition to the living
room it is a beautiful bassinet by
Aristotle an atlas was born and it just
kind of fit perfectly in this room so
thank you guys for sending it and yeah
it's one of her favorite places to hang
out in the room it's actually her only
place to hang out in this room since we
can't sit up yet this is a little bar
area again for all the times that I
don't entertain it's where I like to
hang out with we just like to know that
we're fully prepared party maybe we'll
have a party tonight
we could have a party tonight you've got
the clam I love this little bar area
because I remember when I first saw this
house I saw this room and it was off the
living room I had no idea what to do
with it we just created this little
speakeasy that flows into the outside
this statue so my good friend Lee Ann
Ford who's also amazing designer she
helped me bring in some of her favorite
vintage pieces as well and this guy was
one of them so yeah I've named him jack
Courvoisier and kvasir kvasir kvasir
okay Courvoisier I have my record player
over here with some of my favorite
records it's just a really cool fun spot
to hang out what are you pulling out
over there on the bookshelf on the
bookshelf what are some of the records
that I have stereo Iggy Pop Lil Kim Joni
Mitchell Adele obviously no old vintage
so Adele these are all original tiles
that we're on the entryway along with
the door handles for these two doors
this is the closet door and this one
leads into the dungeon it's going to the
laundry room should I blow out these
candles no will let him burn oh we have
this room turn the lights on wait we got
to do that again this is the nursery
Alice's room this room probably had the
biggest makeover it was my junk room it
was like a faux guest room it was a full
guest room this room did kick it off
though yeah it started with this room
first thing was the color was
we wanted to play on like masculine and
feminine this colored like a smart pink
we wanted to make it also like
purposeful so she could have a bed in
here for guests and we built this custom
Haida bed right here added in these
lights he made it like a really
comfortable little Reading area too
which I love I think the first piece
that I bought was this crib and that's
kind of how we based everything else
around it from changing the knobs on
that dresser that I'd already had we
wanted like the harder lines mixed with
like the softer the other thing where
these lights were downstairs I don't
think you should say I don't think this
rug was another really special find you
just picked it out
I remember Chad calling me and being
like are you at the house I have these
guys coming in an hour they're gonna
show you different rugs hopefully you
pick the one that I like I didn't but I
picked a second favorite one after we
put this rug and it really did pull in
the whole room my other favorite thing
about this room is definitely the
collage wall we didn't want it to feel
like such a staged house and bring it
kind of back into like family and your
travels and we wanted the room to feel a
little bit well-traveled we really did
choose her name because we have traveled
to so many different places and atlas
just felt perfect for us and for her and
so now she can kind of see where you
know we have been my favorite photo is
obviously the 3d scan of Atlas when she
was still in my stomach
the ultrasound photo I'm so in love with
that she looks just exactly like that
right now this is my favorite part
okay as you turn the corner just be like
cheap this is my favorite part now
walking into this bedroom what did you
call it Chad you're like serene it's
serene this room has been truly the bane
of my existence is it vain in my
existence Bane there was some weird
electrical outlet that is now covered
but this picture frame we had to work
with I wanted it like that wanted it
like this - the bed was custom and we
had it covered in this like great mohair
but I first purchased were these
nightstands I loved them I sent her a
picture she bought them immediately and
then we kind of built the room around
those honest chad was at a town he had
picked the color of those walls actually
we both had and i was coming home from a
trip so I was like Chad we chose the
wrong color brown this baby's about to
come any moment now and he was like just
relax calm down you're really emotional
right now it's all gonna come together
and it really did this rug also came
from Chad you would ask no we got this
from an estate sale oh yes it's a
Moroccan rug and I think you get some of
these rich tones in here but it kind of
like anchors the room and there is
traditional architecture in this house
painting over everything and having a
little bit of that like French bye-bye
making the room a little bit seem a
little bit bigger even though it's a
darker color we went all the way up to
the crown molding head to the baseboard
and then we painted the doors as well so
it just kind of made it a little bit
more homey and cozy and I love this
chair I remember seeing it in this hotel
that I know it's broken I don't think
I've ever gone outside on that balcony
oh you've called down and you're like
come on that come up yeah it's okay to
tag chad test it out we redid all the
outdoor lighting and we're in the midst
of changing all the plants and then
we're going to have all these decks and
door frames painted a deeper brown
I don't really utilize my outdoor space
as much as I would like to but we did
just recently get a pizza oven so I'm
excited to set that up in the back and
then host more of those parties I've
always wanted to throw for another time
all right
ad thank you guys so much for coming
into our home it was so nice having you
here and getting to relive some of our
favorite moments in this house yeah
thank you so much yeah now I have to
feed her so where can I'm gonna have to
say goodbye right on thank you for
coming and we'll see you again
they'll see you
the dining light was the light that was
in here so it came down to here so just
do that mental image for me
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