Jennifer Garner’s House: Step Inside the Actor’s Cozy California Home

The inside design course of centered on creating a peaceful, impartial palette with an emphasis on pure textures. “Jen loves classic items,” says Brooke, who acquired a French 1850s farmhouse desk for the eating room, together with midcentury ornamental gadgets from Swedish and Danish designers. “There’s additionally one thing a bit whimsical about her. And she or he likes light shapes, curves. This place is type of the home model of Jen’s persona.”

Some of the welcoming areas is the kitchen, which options honed marble and soapstone counter tops, rounded mohair-covered breakfast desk chairs, and a hearth. (It additionally opens straight onto the swimming pool.) “She responds to tender and comfortable,” Steve says of his shopper. “She’s not making an attempt to be showy or have enormous pops of coloration or stuff like that. There’s a type of pure quietness to the issues that she likes.”

Garner additionally needed to create areas that help memory-making. “She had totally different concepts of what was essential to her household and the way she imagined utilizing these totally different rooms,” Brooke explains. This led to distinctive options like a comfortable blue research and an upstairs studying nook full with a pair of stained-glass home windows. The home windows are the work of artist Reed Bradley and are impressed by the illustrations made by his mom, Marla Frazee, within the kids’s e book All of the World, a household favourite. The work options owls representing Garner’s children and their canine, Birdie.

The youngsters’s research options stained-glass home windows impressed by illustrations from one of many household’s favourite books.

Artwork: Judson Studios

The outside areas, designed in collaboration with panorama designer Christine London, are supposed to be closely trafficked. A kitchen backyard gives contemporary fruit and veggies, whereas a pool and firepit space are good for hangouts and low-key entertaining. Having produce proper outdoors the door is harking back to Garner’s childhood house. She says of rising up in West Virginia, “Very early, I keep in mind my mother saying, if you happen to choose one thing proper off a vine, you’re so more likely to love it. It’s like you’ll be able to style the sunshine.”

As a result of Garner actually lives in her house, Steve and Brooke knew that the spot would proceed to evolve. “I don’t assume properties are ever completed,” Brooke says. “That is one second in time of their life. Because the household grows and as her kids become older, they’ll add a layer and alter issues round.” Nonetheless, for as we speak, Garner says with contentment, “I’m completely happy that I really feel like we use the area rather well, and that the children are everywhere in the home. They’re as snug sitting in the lounge as they’re doing homework within the eating room. And that’s the dream, proper?”

Jennifer Garner, carrying a Lafayette 148 sweater over a CO costume with Tiffany & Co. earrings and a Cartier watch, performs ball with Bugsy, a yellow labrador, and Birdie, a golden retriever.

Trend styling by Jordan Johnson Chung. Hair: Adir Abergel utilizing Advantage Labs for A-Body Company; Make-up: Kara Yoshimoto Bua for A-Body Company; Manicure: Thuy Nguyen for A-Body Company.

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