Tasteful friends. Will you take a look at Diane Keaton's house and tell us what you think?

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That's exactly the kind of place I pictured Diane Keaton living in.

R2 = Mia.

2017. 2017! two thousand seventeen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who cares if it's three years old?

I hate it. White tile, distressed wood, sparse, industrial fixtures. Snooze.

Funny Diane piles on the clothes like a schlep but she has a minimal house.

Very Mrs. Soffel. Must have really stayed with her.

Where's the hay?

[quote]Very Mrs. Soffel. Must have really stayed with her.

Pics of Auschwitz stayed with her.

It's a terrific set piece as an example of design, but it doesn't feel like anyone could live in it comfortably.

Hate the lighting. Reminds me of an office loft space I worked in many years ago. I hope that bathroom is not her master bathroom. She needs a separate shower and tub, and a tub with grip bars. The poor deal can break a hip getting out of that thing.

I love it but it looks like a Restoration Hardware store. You could cut yourself on some of those edges.

R12 wins.

Well, the best thing i can say about it is that it looks, uh, sturdy.

I admire her apple classification and storage systems.

Where does she keep her enemas? Asking for a friend.

I hope her lighting designer was packing serious meat.

Also, Mommy, I don’t want to bathe in a cage.

I didn't see her master closet where she hangs her Botany 500 suits and her ties.

[quote]Also, Mommy, I don’t want to bathe in a cage.

Yeah, the gated bathtub did seem a bit odd.

Looks more like a Big Brother house than a home where someone lives in.

It's vile.

[quote]Keaton describes the style of her home as a combination of a barn and a factory.

No. What are those places where they kill the animals for meat? Abattoir.

I'm not a fan of industrial style for residences. It looks like a hipster restaurant in a small but funky town in, I don't know. Georgia.

Love it. Simple and masculine. I feel like I could write a book or create something artistic in a large uncomplicated space like that.

That’s what happens when you design and decorate a house to be photographed instead of lived in.

I'm pretty sure I would hit my head on the big clock hanging in the doorway shortly after I moved in.

Exhaustingly needy. "Look here, no HERE, now H E R E !"

Keaton is a career house flipper. This is published in 2017 so perhaps decorated in 2015. The look is dated. I'm sure she is 3 or 4 houses away from this by now.

It's pure, 100% industrial in style, which is pretty appealing, so far as I'm concerned, although I'm not a fan of stark Black & White per se. I would agree with R24 that it is entirely masculine in feel, though - I have a hard time picturing Diane Keaton inhabiting these rooms.

Those huge lights hanging in the kitchen are vile.

Those lights look like big chicken feeders turned upside down.

R31 I believe that's the exact idea.

[quote]Keaton is a career house flipper. This is published in 2017 so perhaps decorated in 2015. The look is dated.

There's no reason to think it was done in 15, if it was published at the end of 17.

And decor doesn't date in just over two years.

There's no excuse for this catastrophe.

Her type of decor dates quickly. The lighting fixtures in this house were everywhere in 2015. Restaurant, pub and home design. It was all a cliche by 2018.

I'd have to leave as soon as I entered.

I don't see any personal objects and she has two kids. I guess it was just a design project.

But who the fuck bought it?

Where's the tall brick chimney?

That house is just grim.

I feel like I'd be met by a hostess at the door asking if I have a reservation

This is what happens when a flake has too much money.

I'm pretty sure I've eaten at this restaurant.

She's nuts.

The only thing warm about the place is the fireplace outside.

“No one eats here after dark. There’s no one around, no one around to hear the crunchy mastication plate scraping Tintinnabulation of Kwanzaa cake”

It's early Hitler.

Yes, we'll start with the fried green tomatoes with chimichurri aioli and then split the wood fired duck and hazelnut pizza.

I dreamt of Diane Keaton’s house again last night. I was delivered there by Packard. Mason Reese was the driver. I’d started the evening coaxing Kirstie Allie off Jasmine Guy’s roof using the ham tied to string. Same ham used on the Bertinelli kid.

She actually had the house built from the ground up via her specifications. This was not one of her "flips."

If you've seen her other houses, this isn't that much of a departure except for the exteriors. She claims this is her forever house, which I don' t think she's claimed before. Unlike Ellen and Portia, who have said this about several of their homes.

Meanwhile, her children's bedrooms were shown in the book she published about this house.

[quote]She actually had the house built from the ground up via her specifications.

Dear GOD! it gets worse.

She’s flipped several houses in the last few years and they all get more and more stern looking. She’s a minimalist, which is fine, but rarely are there any personal items displayed at all. No collections, photos, mementos, knickknacks at all. The houses look like an expensive Airbnb.

Here’s an earlier home, which I like a lot more and looks a lot more like a personal style.

Since she's in her 70s, I would hope this is her "forever" home. I think her taste is a little on the bland side.

I like urban/industrial and brick but it desperately needs wall art and color.

It's Diane. She does what she wants. She did build the house from scratch and originally intended to have horses on the property. It's an equestrian neighborhood with trails all around. The neighborhood is pretty interesting. It's right off Sunset, maybe 15-20 houses on large lots. About half of the homes still have horses. Some are stabled right on the street.

She's done such exacting restorations of California Spanish style houses in the past, so I think she just wanted to do something completely of the moment. It'll be interesting to see how it ages.

I bought a "farmhouse" style bed made with reclaimed pine blanks (basically old pallets) and IT'S ALL SPLINTERS. And it was from Pottery Barn!

It's not bad. A little one-note. We've seen much worse.

Boring. And it definitely would make feel as if I partly in a Nazi interrogation quarters and partly an overpriced Chelsea bagel shop.

Those LIGHTS everywhere!

No wonder no man wanted to marry her if this is her idea of homemaking.

I read somewhere that she and her sister collected Monterey pottery. Doesn’t her sister Dorie have a store? What happened to that influence?

[quote]What happened to that influence?

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That yellow dumpster would make a great headboard.

Like her fashion sense, her house is iconoclastic. Not for everybody, but unique. I don't like it...

I'm glad she hasn't gone for boring white.

No, R62, she's gone for boring black and white.

It needs some chartreuse and pink floor pillows.

Where is it?

At least it's not GRAY - that's the only positive I can find.

"I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."

She has an extensive photography collection. It might not have appeared in the AD article, but it was prevalent in the book, including an enormous print of a car accident as photographed by Weegee.

There's more subway tile there than the entire NYC transit system.

Aside from the patio fireplace, it is Gawd awful. Whats with the clock that looks like it belongs in a train station?

It’s in the last photo, r68

r65 It's on Riviera Ranch Rd, right on the border of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. The house next door is for sale.

R58, her sister Dorrie Hall owns a shop in Pasadena that specializes in Old California furniture and art, mostly Monterey style. As far as I know she’s still there.

How are you doing these days, Ruth @ R72? Coping?

That house was obviously remade by Duarto Feliz, the Decorator of Death.

Where is the All Hand Gloves Room?

Whenever I see rafters in these listings and home improvement shows, I can only think of future suicides by hanging.

Sell it, it's already dating.

Rather 'paint-by-number' decorating.

R72 Man, that fireplace is almost worthy of Xanadu in "Citizen Kane".

I actually thought it didn't seem to be her, or the public persona she creates. Not really quirky in any way. Seems rather safe for selling reasons.

Doesn't seem to be any personality to the place, and she does seem to have a personality.

It seems like a Goodbar to be murdered in a stylish way.

Do old fraus need big wallclocks to read the time?

R67 "I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."

I thought I'd strayed into the Julie Andrews thread

Does she eat all that fruit in the kitchen by herself?

Any scoop on her giant home in Tucson?

After a hard day, who wouldn't want to come home to hard edges and a cocktail served by a robot butler?

I'm a crow who loves parkour. This place is cool.

So minimal there's no room for beauty.

You can see it right here on Street View >

(and more of those fucking lights!)

She decorated like a first semester architecture student, still. All those houses, all that practice, you might think she would advanced a bit.

Looks like it was just an empty lot back in '12.

It does seem to have some sort of pool

(aerial view)

I found these on an architect's social media a while back.

Why so much toothpaste, Diane?

As someone working in the design world, it's very dated to me. The book entitled "The House That Pinterest Built" is exactly correct. She took all the most popular ideas that were percolating a few years ago and put them here. It was completely of the moment but now looks like a total cliche after just a few years. We're all looking at the same bits and pieces on Pinterest for the most part and it's homogenizing our tastes. Diane has an incredible eye, but this goes to show exactly what is happening in the design world today. Too much conformity. Does anyone remember her Lloyd Wright house up in The Oaks? It was a number of years ago. I think she sold it to Drew Barrymore, but it had also been Ramon Navarro's house. Anyway, she restored the place beautifully and decorated it in a quirky style, unlike anything I had seen before. It was published in Metropolitan Home (RIP). It certainly inspired me in a way this place totally doesn't.

The chicken coop operator meets the mortuary homeowner.

Stick to the acting sweetie.

She’s Clearly overpaid

She's done SO MANY commercial crappy movies. People kept wondering why when you consider her early films. Clearly the accumulation of money is more important to her than doing good work.

This is no worse than the Mackenzie-Childs clam-sourced paradise Kirstie vomited up.

r96 That Lloyd Wright house was amazing but what she did to the bathrooms was awful. She put in those stainless steel prison toilets / fixtures. They were the coldest most uninviting bathrooms.

I assume my commission is pending.

Ha, R101. Now that you mention it, you're correct. It was an odd choice, but at least it was weird. This house now looks designed by committee.

Warhol hated her and this is why. Actress is not the same as Artist.

I was going for a sort of prison/abortion clinic motif. Sterile, hard lines sooth my artist's soul and inspire me like nothing has since Warren's rather girthy cock.

Does Joanna Gaines have shares in Giant Sized Wallclocks?

It’s a home for a person who is never home.

If this is dated, what is the current fashion in interior design?

Dated? This was NEVER in fashion.

The trendy modern farmhouse style she used for this house has already gone out of style. There's currently a big backlash against it amongst architects and designers.

White and neutral interiors are majorly out of style. Saturated color is the name of the game right now. Whoever buys her house will have to spend a fortune redoing it.

bad taste all tha way Annie

Modern farmhouse isn't going anywhere just yet. It's still selling extremely well to the average frau. While designers have cooled on the all-white interior, it's still what most clients want. Saturated color is making a comeback, but it's still not going to be everyone's cup of tea. There's a reason this style became popular. It can be recreated relatively easily and it uses a lot of found objects that don't necessarily cost an arm and a leg.

any action in the stables?

I love it

In Diane Keaton's defense, she is the only woman of her age who can wear those jeans and that keffiyeh whilst collaging a wall in her offfice,

Rafters always make me think of future suicide by hanging.