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Gwyneth Paltrow and her musician husband, Chris Martin of the band Coldplay, have been on the East Coast for years, living in Manhattan penthouses and a sumptuous Hamptons estate. Now, they have put down roots in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California with the purchase of a house for $10.45 million, $1.5 million below the original listing price – good for them for negotiating 😉
This new construction, concept house called “The House of Windsor” after its designer, Windsor Smith, gave a respite to the sea of Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival houses with the stereotypical red tiled roofs and white stucco walls of the neighborhood.
Lucky for us, Veranda Magazine profiled the house, where designers decorated the rooms, so we get to see it – yay!!
The House of Windsor
Foyer
Foyer
Richard Shapiro designed living room.
Another view of the living room
And yet another. Note the lack of curtains. Martha Stewart doesn’t do window treatments either so as to maximize her view.
Smith used Galveston grey in the living room (the end of the room shown here) and kitchen.
Dining room with an umbrian lantern.
Such a beautiful view…
Galveston grey kitchen
The wet bar includes a coffee machine and wine column.
This sink is right next to the bar. I love the marble shelves!!!
A kitchen nook
Home office shown above and below.
It’s hard to see, but the designer painted the sides of the molding a salmon color! Brilliant!
This quirky and busy screening room was designed by Martyn Lawrence Bullard. To me, there are too many “things” and the wallpaper is too visually distracting for a screening room.
Master bedroom designed by Candace Barnes
Another view showing the fireplace.
Master bath/dressing room
Tara Shaw designed this bedroom
Guest suite designed by Peter Dunham
The stables
Stables by Kathryn Ireland
View from the stables
The outside of the house was taken care of by Stephen Block and Paul Robbins.
One trick of the trade for you: frequently, when rooms are staged for magazine photo shoots, they add flowers, plants, fruits, etc. to the interior rooms which breathes life into them. With some of these rooms, they did not add these elements…and they fall flat. If you go back and look though the pictures, you can see that the additions do make a room pop, so think about that when you entertain. And, it doesn’t have to be some grand bouquet – in fact, sometimes that can come across as trying to hard and obvious that it was done for company. Rather, make it seem that this is an everyday way of living by using fruit that can be eaten later, a plant that can be planted in your yard later or greenery that you collect from outside. Just a little bit of something green and/or alive 🙂
With that, I hope you enjoyed looking at the house…. and I hope you have a great day 🙂
Beautiful – will remember your suggestion about flowers!
while I love the house itself not sure about some of the furniture choices guess it is personal taste aslo the ‘white’ rooms do not do it for me i always think they look a little sterile much more house than home again a personal thing and stables should have horses in lol
that is a beautiful home. thanks for sharing it with us
Ah…I didn’t really like the house. The exteriors are pretty enough, if a bit too white and clean for my taste, but the interiors were just so busy and yet….blah! 😦
Agreed! Esp. the office and screening room! I like more serene and tranquil rooms.
I’m sorry, but the living room and the screening room – awful. Just awful. Even calling it ‘eclectic’ doesn’t make it work for me.
I agree. I love certain elements about each room, but do not like the overall feel of any of them, except maybe a bedroom or two.
Love the outside entertaining area.
Thanks for the fun. Have to agree with the afore-mentioned dislike, overall, of this house. And the screening room and home office will give me nightmares if I don’t banish them from my mind. I like the details in the kitchen: sink, shelves, appliances, cabinets, etc. and the master bedroom looked comfortable, but the stark white and a lot of the other choices weren’t my taste…I’ll do something completely different when my $10.45 million ship comes in! :0
Love the exterior and interior architecture details but hate the interior design. Lack of color, lack of imagination, and way too much stuff crammed into the rooms. Visual clutter and visually disappointing, Sigh, this beautiful house had such potential. A lifeless home that certainly is not memorable.
This was a designer “show case”, so they could do what ever they wanted! and this is what they came up with?
All this decorating, furniture, etc, is gone and Gwyneth will have a blank slate with which to work.
LOVE THIS!! White? Sterile? NO. Drop dead gorgeous…
Love this! I like the kitchen and grounds are spectacular.
Cynthia
I can’t picture her kids running around that house! I agree with the others too, much too busy. It doesn’t really seem ‘homey’ or cozy….but they probably won’t be there all that often anyway!
This isn’t her decor…this was just set up for the Veranda photo shoot to showcase the different designers. Gwyneth will have a blank slate with which to work.
Obviously Martha Stewart and Gwyneth have never lived in Texas, where window treatments are mandatory to keep out the blistering heat in the summer! Currently, I feel like I’m living in a cave because all the dark wood blinds are closed to keep the heat out during the day. I welcome the occasional overcast, rainy day so I can open all the blinds and see outside!
Other than that observation….lol…..the house is pretty, but a little overly accessorized for my personal taste 🙂 But, it’s nice to see how “the other half” lives!
Awesome! I’m only $10 million short, or I might have outbid them.
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Maybe I’m just jealous, but I thought it was hideously ugly! That is probably because of what you mentioned with adding a pop with something alive. I did like the outside!
I have to agree with the others here that the rooms looked flat and not inviting. Also the screening room could give you nightmares. Thanks for sharing the pictures with us, though.
I’ve seen all-white done in a way that wasn’t sterile. Perhaps this isn’t photographing well? Because this just seems unattractive throughout. And the staging is bad. It looks like things were just thrown in there.
I love the house & the setting but not so crazy about the what some of the decorators came up with. But that screening room – yikes, I felt like I was falling into the computer screen when I came upon that one. You know that feeling when you’re stationary but the car beside you backs up & you think you’re moving? Like that.
I know I’m being repetitive, but I was disappointed. I have had a girl-crush on Gwyneth since I was 14 and saw Shakespeare in Love and have followed her since (I had seem some of these pics already), but something about the clutter or over-doing it throughout the house surprised me here. I do live just 5 miles from Brentwood though, so maybe I’ll swing by for afternoon tea and let her know how the followers of A Detailed House feel!
Interesting! To each his own. Thanks for sharing.
It looks cold and unhappy.
Not my taste in decorating but I love the bones of the house. And more importantly learned that Martha Stewart doesn’t do window treatments? Well then. I don’t feel so bad about having almost no curtains in my home.
Me too!! That’s why I know this little piece of information 😉
It was fun to look but I wouldn’t want to live there…While I love black accents, I’m not a fan of gray in a house and there’s a lot of gray! It needs some color, any color to bring it to life!
great set – tell’s the story, the excess of modern living
That is exactly the house I would picture Gwyneth Paltrow living it. I love the photo where you cropped her picture in – hilarious!
I can’t take credit for the cropping! I got it from Business Insider!
The house itself, inside and out, is too modern, white and sterile for me. Although I do love how the kitchen is so well equipped and the gardens are gorgeous.
I prefer her movies and his music…the home ummmm a bit too much!
In my humble opinion, the rooms are all way too busy. Too much stuff for my taste. Feels cluttered. I love the simple architecture of the house and would love the innards so much more if there were less of it!!! Starts off with the hampton style home and then runs amok!
I’d rather stay in the guest house for coziness!
I wouldn’t mind calling that my home – I agree about the creening room though – to much going on for my taste.
Great post – really enjoyed reading it 🙂
+M+
I want to live in their stables! Love house tours…
it is a beautiful home –love the all- white rooms-and no drapes to hide the beautiful views
Wow, LOVE it. I’m inspired all over again. Thanks for bringing us such a full tour of this house.
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