Breytti ljótu húsi í fallegt heimili

Handritshöfundurinn Shonda Rhimes á fallegt heimili.
Handritshöfundurinn Shonda Rhimes á fallegt heimili. AFP

Shonda Rhimes opnar heimili sitt í nýjustu útgáfu hönnunartímaritsins Architectural Digest. Rhimes, sem er konan á bak við farsæla bandaríska sjónvarpsþætti á borð við Grey's Anatomy og Scandal, skrifar að sér hafi í fyrstu fundist húsið ljótt og eitthvað rangt við það. Hún keypti þó húsið þar sem hún sá góða sögu í því, sögu sem endaði vel. 

Húsið sem er í Kaliforníu er nú allt annað en ljótt eins og sést á myndum úr innlitinu. Rhimes skildi eitt herbergi eftir nánast eins og það var og er það skrifstofan hennar. Búið er að opna á milli hæða inni þannig að meiri birta flæðir um húsið. 

Það þurfti þó ekki bara að laga húsið að innan því ytra byrði hússins var ekki fínt. Í ljós kom að framhliðinni hafði verið breytt um miðja síðustu öld og með smá rannsóknavinnu var hægt að endurgera upphaflegt útlit hússins sem var byggt árið 1923. 

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@shondarhimes: “I can only explain it like this: The house felt like . . . good story. And every inch of me wanted to write it. That’s my problem. I love a good story. I get seduced by story every time. So even though I was a busy single mother with three kids, four television shows, and a company to run, and I should have known better, I didn’t stop myself. I bought the house anyway. And then I simply decided to assume the story would have a happy ending… Enter @michaelsmithinc. I’d had the opportunity to visit the White House residence during the Obama era, and I had been impressed by how warm, comfortable, and elegant it was. I was especially enthusiastic about President Obama’s private office—the colors, the style, the vibe. I wanted to sit and write in there. (I didn’t.) Anyone who can make a writer feel more like writing is someone special. That ability to connect with whatever creates sparks in a person is part of what makes Michael such a gifted designer. Working with him was a truly collaborative experience. Despite my lack of time, I ended up being deeply involved in the process. The home we’ve created feels classic California—if a little bit romantic.” The TV impresario behind @greysabc, @scandalabc, and @howtogetawaywithmurder penned her experience of falling in love with an ugly house, restoring it to its former glory, and making it “home” for her young family. Visit the link in our profile to see more from our February issue. Photo by @themichaelmundy; text by @shondarhimes; architecture by @hartmanbaldwin; styled by @lawrenhowell

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When TV producer @shondarhimes viewed a house for sale she initially thought was “ugly. And wrong,” she was actually seduced. “As someone who spends most of her days crafting stories for television (@greysabc, @scandalabc, and @howtogetawaywithmurder, etc.), I can only explain it like this: The house felt like . . . good story. And every inch of me wanted to write it.” The busy single mother of three bought the house and hoped for the best. “To begin, I worked with architect Bill Baldwin of @hartmanbaldwin. We got lucky,” Rhimes writes. “Bill found out that sometime in the 1950s or 1960s, an overenthusiastic homeowner had recklessly removed the home’s original façade and replaced it with the out-of-sync one. We also learned that the home was actually built in 1923, the work of Elmer Grey, the famed architect of the @bevhillshotel. With a little research, I located photos of the original exterior. They revealed the front as Grey had intended— a beautiful Italianate villa with an intricate stone-carved balustrade.” Once they were on track to restore the exterior to its original glory, Rhimes tapped #AD100 designer @michaelsmithinc to make sense of the interior. “First Michael worked with everyone to deal with my biggest concern: the lack of sunlight,” she writes. “To start, HartmanBaldwin blew out the roof of the first-floor loggia, creating a two-story gallery along the back that fills the whole space with light and air. (pictured here) The gallery is lined with big glass-and-iron doors. Previously those doors opened into the house; now we’ve turned them so that they open out onto the patio. This adds about three feet of furniture space to the room, lending it a sense of spaciousness. My favorite thing to do when entertaining is open all of those doors and enjoy an indoor/outdoor dance party.” See more of Rhimes’s home through the link in our profile. Photo by @themichaelmundy; text by @shondarhimes; styled by @lawrenhowell

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“Renovating a house in real life is not like it is on TV,” writes super producer @shondarhimes of her own experience transforming this L.A. property. “On TV, the home renovation takes place during a clever 30-second montage while a Stevie Wonder song plays. The actor playing TV Shonda holds up swatches and nods, peers at tiles and nods, uses a sledgehammer on a wall and smiles . . . and never loses patience or the will to live. That is not how a renovation works. This was no 30-second montage. There are a lot of change orders. There are permits. There are delays. There is still tile arriving from Morocco, broken, that has to be sent back.” After 5 years of extensive renovation, the house is finally the dream home she wanted for her family. The one part of the property that did not need much change was the grounds. She writes, “The house is perfectly placed on more than an acre of stunning land in the heart of metropolitan Los Angeles. The ugly behemoth I bought sits on a work of art. Smooth lawns flow into a sport court; a pool stretches over to wide bougainvillea-covered trellises; fountains bubble along winding paths revealing the entrance to a secret rose garden. When you stand on the back patio, the views of towering trees and wide lawns and garden make it easy to imagine the house is somewhere in wine country instead of five minutes from Hollywood. Stephen Block of @innergardens made subtle but impactful changes in the landscape design—adding paths, reshaping beds. The pool and the sport court were resurfaced. He and his team worked to heal the larger trees that had not been well cared for in the backyard.” To see more of the home and read her account of the renovation, click the link in our profile. Photo by @themichaelmundy; text by @shondarhimes; interior design by @michaelsmithinc; architecture by @hartmanbaldwin; styled by @lawrenhowell

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