well hello a.d i'm nina welcome to my
home
hey maverick
say hi to everyone at home watching
this is my puppy maverick
and this is my
spanish style home
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so it was really important to me because
the house is from the 1920s i wanted to
pay respect to the original architecture
and the spanish style influence and even
though we were redoing certain things i
wanted to use materials
that were organic and felt like they
could have belonged to the home before
while still
refreshing and giving the house a
facelift so i've had this home for about
five years and the house used to
actually be like a yellowy mustard color
which was very typical for a lot of
spanish style homes but i i'd always
wanted to paint it white and for the
first time i found myself having no
excuse and my boyfriend and i painted
the whole exterior of the house
ourselves and it took forever let's just
say on day one or two we were really
excited and then by day three or four
and then into the first month i was like
what have i gotten myself into but
it turned out beautiful so i'm happy i
did it
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the fireplace
it had like a detail underneath here
and i wanted to preserve the detail but
i really wanted the fireplace to be a
statement and stick out and kind of
contrast everything else because
everything else in the in the whole
house for the most part is light and
airy and there's lots of fabrics with
linens and the carpets and everything is
just has like a light airiness to it but
i wanted there to be bold statements
that also contrasted the lightness so
that there's
a lot of texture and feeling and sort of
moodiness as well this photograph is
really near and dear to my heart because
right before the pandemic i went i'm
shooting a movie in south africa
and i was on safari and i was taking we
saw these these like baby little simbas
little lions i call this a simba
photograph so we saw these simbas i was
taking photos on my iphone thinking i
got the best shot ever i thought it was
so cool i was so happy and then i looked
over to my right and there was a
professional photographer who took the
exact same photo from the same vantage
point
and
let's just say his picture was a lot
more beautiful and ross cooper is a
photographer and a dear friend now and
so he sent me a print and i blew it up
and made my centerpiece
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when i first bought the home there was a
wall that defied the divided the
dining room space from the kitchen but i
really really really wanted to have an
open concept space so last year we
knocked down the wall
that used to actually be
right here
there's a huge wall so we knocked it
down and i really wanted to have an
island space
that i could entertain at i love having
people over for dinner i love cooking i
love sharing a glass of wine and so
i wanted to be able to cook while still
participating in the conversation with
my friends i like to switch it up my
favorite thing to do is
go to one of my cookbooks close my eyes
open it and sort of just like land on a
page and then whatever it is i have to
make it it's more challenging that way
and it's more fun when it turns out well
but it doesn't turn out well
you know just post mates or
eat something so we got these reclaimed
terracotta tiles from europe that are
all unique they're textured
some have a lot of imperfections which i
kind of love like it's been lived in and
it feels it feels european and i'm from
europe so i wanted to have that kind i
wanted to also bring in my heritage a
little bit
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and then the backsplash so i wanted to
mix the materials again and get
something that looked like a subway tile
but had these imperfections each tile's
different there they don't lay perfectly
flat on each other there's edges and
it feels textured and yummy against this
really smooth butcher blog i love mixing
materials so
the floor is being terracotta and being
reclaimed and then having the butcher
block counters on one side and then
having
this slab and i wanted to be able to
have something sturdy and yet have
something that is aesthetically
beautiful so we went with a dolomite
it's very textured it's not smooth
it's not
super polished it's got a honed finish
on top so that allows for it to feel
like
yummy and kind of oh i don't know
sometimes i like to just
lay on it
it's really nice to lay on
oh
it feels so good and it's also kind of
like cryo because it stays very cold
i went with green cabinets i think i saw
it on instagram somewhere there's this
beautiful french kitchen in the south of
france that was featured somewhere and i
just became obsessed all the
hardware from the faucet to the knobs
even which are a little bit more modern
they're unlacquered so with time they
will age and get more beautiful
even like when we're gone these guys
will just get more and more beautiful
with time i'm going to show you my
favorite part of the kitchen
it's
the tiniest little thing but to me it
makes me really feel like an adult like
a passage of some sort
introducing the spice rack
yep
my mom would be proud
this stove is also
really special it's called ilove and it
is an italian stove that we had shipped
in from italy they're manufactured there
and what i loved about it is that it's a
new stove it's a new construction stove
but
it feels vintage like it feels all the
details with the brass and all the knobs
like it has an aesthetic look that it's
an art piece in itself in the kitchen
and it kind of it adds value without
distracting too much which i love when
we knock the wall down there had to be
some sort of a hood for the range and i
didn't want to compromise the space
because the whole point was to open up
the space and be able to see everyone
and a hood would have been down to about
here probably it would have come down
so we did a lot of research and we found
this company called zephyr out of canada
and i'm canadian so it was important to
me to support canadian brands
and it's flush to the wall
but
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and it pulls up all the all the smells
and all the fumes that come out when
you're cooking
and it doesn't obscure the view which is
really important to me
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i love this fridge it was such a big
like great find for me
because it's very high tech
if you notice right here there's a
little button on the floor that says
door open
hold on
here we go so when you have all the
groceries you just damn it
and it'll knock you out of the way
it works every other time
boom and then another space is the nook
i love waking up in the morning and
having breakfast right here the sunlight
comes in it's so pretty
and you just kind of lounge
whether you're
reading the newspaper which i've never
done so i shouldn't see that
but it's a it's a great little space and
there's a lot of room i used to have a
nook here before but it was small and a
much smaller table so when we did the
renovation i wanted to add a second
bench
get more pillows get a bigger table and
now i can sit about 10 people whereas
before it was probably about 4 or five
so this sculptural piece is actually a
plant but it looks like a piece of art
it's called ikebana and one of my
friends myla comes in and makes them for
me every now and then they're really
really really beautiful
and
add a
centerpiece to a table that speaks for
itself so that you don't have to have
all the clutter it is
everything you need and the only thing
you need on a table in my opinion
i opted to go for
these chairs which were actually um one
of my friends chairs that i reclaimed
and i stole them from her but i paid for
them and we mixed it with the leather
tops and also the oak bench over here
that matches those chairs over there so
we had a lot of wood influence and
organic materials i wanted the table to
look good from all angles this is a
custom piece that we had built from
solid oak that
is very finished and very detailed with
the round edges and
it's an indoor outdoor space that's
really important to me the weather is
great here in california so having the
flow of air seeing the table from
outside in the in the courtyard area and
every other angle even the rounded legs
on the table everything was like very
very very detailed and beautiful i
wanted it to be aesthetically pleasing
from any angle no matter where you are
in the house
and then another thing about this room
is the crown molding that is the
original from 1929 so come on back so
you can see the rest of the house
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so this guest bedroom is kind of like
the rest of the home i i wanted it to be
inviting and feel welcoming and have
someone feel like they were in their own
home so we put a lot of time and effort
into
getting fun pillows and
having a wonderful ambiance with open
windows and just kind of making it homey
and fresh
as you can hear all the floors are very
creaky
it's squeaking a lot and that's mainly
because
all the wood floors in the home are also
original from the 1920s
and
you know it's good for when someone
tries to break in because then i can
hear them and grab my bat
very helpful for that but um someday
when i have kids they're really gonna
hate it because
you know they won't be able to get sneak
out of the house as easily as i did when
i was growing up
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so my room is similar to the other room
it's open
light airy and i wanted it to feel very
inviting very jumpable
oh
so cozy and inviting
um i have this longhorn that i actually
uh got on a road trip a couple years
back i fell in love with it i saw it on
the side of the road someone was selling
it and i got a sick deal on it and it's
been the centerpiece of my bed for a
really long time i should give it a name
it doesn't have a name
it looks like a
gerald to me
feels like a gerald because of the jade
it's extremely heavy it's so so so so
heavy so it is a bit of a flight risk to
hang above your bed i was really scared
i had i think three or four guys come
and build something behind the wall to
make sure that it's secure enough so
that while i'm sleeping it doesn't fall
on my head and kill me
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another original historical
moment in the house that i haven't
really done much to because i wanted to
keep it like you'll even see some of the
tiles in this bathroom because they're
from the 1920s and they're one of a kind
and you can't get them anymore there's
little cracks on the floor and there's
little cracks and certain things
but something about it the charm of it i
just fell in love with it i didn't i
didn't even want to redo it i wanted to
keep it like it is he's really really
really gorgeous
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now we're in the room that i spend a lot
of time in this is my little movie room
it's not a screening room by any means
but it's where i spend a lot of
a lot of hours watching netflix and hbo
max and all the things
um
this painting is actually
charcoal
so my mom made this i'm an actor i'm in
the film industry and this is my movie
room so i asked her i sent her what i
wanted
and
she lives in france she's a painter
she
hand made this
with her fingers and charcoal
and it's a
painting of a picture of an x-ray of an
old film camera
so i thought it'd be perfect for my
little movie room and yeah it's just the
cloud couch is super
oh
it's dangerous actually to be in this
room
so she drank hovid this is where i spent
like a year of my life
in this room
you just sink into these cushions and
feel so alive but again more buddha more
candles more plants in this room too
crystals of course when you take these
down
it really gets really dark and it's like
a real movie
room now if you follow me outside
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this is my little slice of heaven
when i bought the house originally it
reminded me of not california like it
didn't feel like i was in a busy city
plants in the bougainvillea there's
another entertaining area here we want
to have outdoor hangs with the girls
more wine nights
so i should mention i started a wine
company it's called fresh fine wine
and it's a low calorie low carb
low sugar
keto vegan friendly and gluten-free wine
from california so welcome to my home
so refreshing actually i want to hold on
to this let's go
so this was a pool house at the
beginning of the pandemic and i don't
know i got really antsy and i started
ordering all this gym equipment because
i needed to work out somehow so i
converted this whole space into a gym
and i've actually been using it a lot
more than i did when it was a pool house
i've got these amazing weights i don't
know if you've ever heard of this
company but
it's called pent fitness they're almost
too pretty to work out because you don't
want to mess them up but they're
they're made of solid oak
and have this like
metal detail they're so pretty this is
what we do at fresh fried wine
we work out while we drink
jesus that's heavy okay so these little
details are
a few years ago i had a coachella themed
birthday party and that was from the
party they gave it to me afterwards we
created these like neon signs for the
artist area and then up here
i've got the nina cello sign that's also
hanging so it feels like you're
in a nightclub while at the gym
not really but sometimes when the
music's blasting it gets pretty intense
and then this big old snag fridge
she's my favorite we keep all the good
stuff in here
but she's fun she's a pop of color and
continues that sort of retro
energy and vibe in the home
yeah
not a lot of people come back here
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and then finally we have the pool area
it's a small amount it's cool but it
does exactly what it needs to do and the
summers i actually don't heat it on
purpose because it gets so hot i
sometimes run into the sauna and then
use the pool as a cryo to cool off
occasionally we'll put the hot tub on
but honestly it's just this is a great
little zen zone with the buddha in the
corner
and it feels like you're not in the city
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all right a.d thank you so much for
coming this has been real fun but
wine night is starting in about 20
minutes and i've got some girlfriends
coming over so
i'm gonna have to say goodbye
you