Tasteful Friends Step Inside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis's Sustainable L.A. Farmhouse

Gorgeous

From the pics I really like it

Dude, where’s your car (parked)?

Does nothing for me. I dont want to live in a farmhouse, and definitely not a modern take on one either. Its not unpleasant but it doesnt have any wow factor for me either. Meh

Pretentious but beautiful.

It seems over designed and so tasteful it’s kitsch

Ugh. The 'living room' looks like a hipster wedding venue but with couches. No thanks.

I call that look Gulag Chic

It will age as well as 1970s wood panelling.

I don't understand the modern predilection for living in enormously overscaled rooms.

@r9, I agree, as much as I like it I think these "farmhouses" are going to be the "post modern" remnants of the coming decades

Horrid.

That thatch of tall prairie grass length weeds and wildflowers and what have you — for the bees! — re crawling with ticks.

The mantra of eco-this and sustainability-that and their good intentions is the worst from the dimwitted Hollywood rich. "We restored two twice-already restored colossal, glass-walled airplane hangars and planted fields of wild flowers — for the bees!" It' enough to make me warm, a fraction of a degree to the blatantly money-grabbing sorts who profess to do no good and to set no examples, the Kochs of the world who set down a whisky to rip the lawn man to shreds, "I've got 600 acres of grass around this house and goddamnit when I'm back in town next month I want to the 600 acres of perfectly manicured lawn that you could bounce a quarter on. Got it?"

R13 maybe it's a generational thing. Maybe it's Disney's fault (with the feel good animal stuff,) -- but I'm guilty of the same thing. I have 10 acres and though it comes with a bugs to keep some wild stuff overgrown, there's rewards. We get at least 100 monarchs because we keep the millweed (they are running out because they're cut down), we get several hummingbirds, and fawns born in the feilds (not many walled off from trees like it is here), we get bunnies everywhere, and the yard sounds like an Amazon from the 100s of birds.

See it's an oasis in between developments and farms, a lot of these animals no longer have. I put up with the bugs and spray myself religiously. I do let the farmer hay though to keep it from craziness but it's around the animals schedule.

R13 oh and you're right on about ticks. Found a bunch last year so I attracted some possum friends to the yard and they had babies -- they eat something like 5000 ticks a per one in a summer. You definitely need to know about how to balance nature though.

[quote]KuKu Farms

Christ.

Oversized rooms need mountains of solar panels and double glazing everywhere. Hope some of those window 'walls' open in summer for a cross breeze?

Super stupid.

Wow! It's stunning. The right balance of design intricacy, warmth and white space. I love it.

Obviously it's had the shit designed out of it and you could only afford something like that if you were very wealthy but I love it.

[Quote]We spent months looking at materials and colors to find the right visual language.

They've spent months looking at colors and all they could come up with was dark brown everywhere?

That place is horrible. I could never live at a place that is so dark.

What are you talking about R20? I can see oranges, greens, yellows, maroon, blues, beiges, grays, pinks, cream, whites and many different colors of wood.

Are you Helen Keller?

Oh no, is this an Architectural Digest Impending Divorce House Tour™️?

Too Fussy to really be rustic or casual. Given that LA is basically a desert, I wonder how much water was wasted on their corn field.

It's both gorgeous and slightly excessive; just a bit too stylized.

Also, I never liked "open" combining of spaces. I'm a fan of walls in an interior. They serve a purpose.

My ex built a beautiful home from scratch in a gorgeous patch of woods. He chose an open concept of kitchen and living room and now regrets it. If he could do it over, he'd have put in walls.

The article reads like it was written by Meghan Markle. So very, very L.A. pretentious.

It's a great house. Great big. And wooden. Built in a perpetual fire zone. Besides anything else it might be, and I'll leave that to you opinionated bitches, it's also an enormous pile of tinder.

When the fire comes, and it will, KuKu Farms will be no more.

All that money and the guests get bunk beds? Los dos Kukus should have thrown their interior designed out on his ass the moment that idea was proferred to them.

Della R24 I'm with you -- So over 'open concept'. Give me a kitchen with walls around it, so the entire living room doesn't smell like food and I can close the door on those dishes when I have visitors.

[Quote]What are you talking about [R20]? I can see oranges, greens, yellows, maroon, blues, beiges, grays, pinks, cream, whites and many different colors of wood.

Yes dumbass, what a colorful place. I mean those pink roses in this dark brown, grayish hell really stand out and make all the difference.

I don’t like them.

r27, your observation only a bit varies from ex's remark when he admitted he wished he hadn't chosen open concept: "I don't like it that can see my kitchen sink, across my living room, as I enter from the front door."

How do they afford such expensive properties? They've had several. Is he still doing well with all those tech start-ups he invested in?

Here you go R28! This should be much more up your alley cunt face.

That's my guess, r31.

The poor have to work for money. The wealthy - money works for you.

Off-topic, but I felt sorry for Demi Moore when Ashton (and an Astronaut Then in Orbit could see it coming) dumped her. It always was to be. I remember when she flew too close to the Sun by that movie premier Red-Carpet photo- op when she arrived with Kutcher, Bruce Willis and their children ,all together.

I must be psychotic, er, I mean psychic, but "This will end in tears - hers", was my first thought when I saw those pix, and so it came to be.

R30 Della, who got stuck with the house? You or the ex?

And I too hate open floor plans.

Fuck these cheating breeders. Hey Mila - how you get them is how you lose them.

He kept it, r34. We mistook a series of drunken one night stands for marriage material. We're on good terms and still talk. I live in a much more modest home ,but love it more.

This house appears to be an homage to Ashton’s Iowa roots, with the corn field and because it looks like it was designed by Ashton’s mentally challenged brother.

R36 Glad you didn’t get stuck with his choice in floor plan!

Although I find it interesting, I think they’re going to have a hard time selling this if they ever do. People in LA seem to either want modern or traditional. A random barn in Beverly Hills or the Hollywood Hills or wherever they live is not going to be most buyers cup of tea.

I love wood and an earthy look, but this is de trop for me. Well done though.

I just burned a pot of rice. I had to open windows and turn on extractors to get rid of the smell. My kitchen is “semi” open plan - the dining room and living room extend off it with a series of sliding doors.

If it were fully open plan, my entire house would stink.

It looks like a wedding venue.

You fucking Markle people are so goddamn annoying, R25. No better than the people who used to find it necessary to insert Trump into every thread.

I sort of like it - it just seems really out of place in Beverly Hills? I guess at least it's not another white box.

The wood and dark colors turned me off, but then you have to realize how much sun houses get in SoCal. It always perplexed me why there was so much white and light colors in homes that were going to be filled with light 300+ days a year. You need to have some contrast and to soak up some of that, otherwise you need to walk around in sunglasses.

It reminds me of a deluxe, more expensive Joanna Gaines design. The whole farm house aesthetic is something that will never appeal to me.

Oh - and the decor looks like a mashup of CB2, West Elm and Crate and Barrel. These are all items that people can buy themselves - which is fine, but wouldn't you want a unique design?

OP- It's not very tasteful for a HOMO like Ashton Kutcher to be married to a woman.

I don’t hate it as a concept and it photographed well, but hell no! Would I want to live in it.

Damn, that is so freakin nice and peaceful looking. I low key love them as a couple since they were both so pretty on That 70’s Show. But Ashton’s tech investments coupled with Mila’s never ending Family Guy checks are putting in the work.

I love it. I agree, the dark colors balance out the constant sunshine.

[quote]This house appears to be an homage to Ashton’s Iowa roots, with the corn field and because it looks like it was designed by Ashton’s mentally challenged brother.

Maybe, Mila also had a hand in designing it. Isn't she blind in one eye?

[quote]It looks like a wedding venue.

OMG you’re right! Perfect description!

Having millions of dollars makes a lot of things sustainable. And attainable.

Sustainability Rating: 8/10

Orgy Suitability Rating: 1/10

Della, was he at least a Packers’ fan?

I actually prefer Diane Keaton’s Pinterest house

Does anyone else miss color? It's pretty easy to arrange items that are grey, black or white with some greens and wood to soften it up.

I'd like to see more color design - more thought and more patterns. I like simplicity, but you can have simple without being basic.

I feel like everything is designed for "staging to sell" instead of living and enjoying.

Hasn't it been all over the gossip rags that he cheated and they're divorcing?

I do love soaring steel windows.

R55 YES. My God, interiors are so fucking boring these days.

r53, of course!

There are some elements that I like but I can’t stand the Modern Farmhouse aesthetic. I don’t think it’s going to age well at all.

I don’t care one way or the other about the house, but this reminded me what a piece of shit AD became about a decade ago. No relevance, at all.

[quote]My God, interiors are so fucking boring these days.

Very true, R58. It's all variations is cost on the same bland products and finishes turned out by home design TV whether from the Property Brothers or Sarah Beeny, stuff that can be bought at Home Depot or B&Q or bought through a designer who will charge millions to give you the same look only more expensively done, as here at KuKu Farms.

It's like a pack of school girl frenemies who all dress and act and look alike in every possible way because that way they are safe from attention or critique or even praise. Everyone does the same thing for fear of doing something different, and when Pantone issues of "colors of the new year" edict, everything turns from one shade to another of the same thing.

There are good designers, doing interesting and wonderful things, but it takes a concerted effort to find them these days. Instagram has replaced glossy magazines, and it's brilliant if you groom your feed to catch things that there isn't room for in AD because Susanne Summers is selling her house, again.

AD and the few big design magazines left should be kicked in the teeth for following on the Paige Rense model of celebrity worship and helping boost the price of divorcing celebrities homes about to hit the market or giving some name recognition to some forgotten name about to launch some new and dubious project.

“Farmhouse” chic makes me think of Pinterest and the obsession with “rustic” living and “chunky” decor. I shudder.

It’s not my style at all, but I don’t hate it. Obviously they paid someone well to make the interior look good.

The neutral color palate in favor today - black, white, grey, beige, and greige - makes everything look like a farm house. Ashton Kutcher just has enough money to take it way over the top.

People Are Very Confused by Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher's Huge Luxury Farmhouse

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher recently gave fans a tour of their sustainable Los Angeles farmhouse, but the pictures have quickly caused a bit of confusion among fans who can't seem to decide whether they absolutely hate or love it.

Right now celebrities seem to love showing fans inside their huge mega mansions, with everyone from the Kardashians to Miley Cyrus appearing in Architectural Digest to show people around their impressive homes. Mila and Ashton were the latest celebrities to grace the magazine cover and welcome photographers into their sprawling LA farmhouse, which they've nicknamed 'KuKu Farms.'

The property, which the couple designed together by compiling their own Pinterest boards and then comparing, has taken five years to build from scratch and is, according to Mila and Ashton, entirely sustainable.

However, the grand barn-style project doesn't seem to be in everyone's taste, and it has fans confused, since most of them can't seem to decide whether they love it or hate it. On the one hand, some felt that the barn aesthetic made the home feel both cozy and stylish. But some fans weren't sure about a few of the design decisions, especially having a huge chandelier in a barn, or referring to the room as "the entertainment barn."

Mostly, the sentiment boiled down to complete uncertainty, summed up perfectly by one fan who commented, "God... I love but also kind of don't love it."

Meanwhile on Twitter, people were equally confused by the eccentric house—but wondering if maybe...it works?

So, do we love it or hate it? Let's head to our ~entertainment barns~ to ponder.

[quote]...freestanding barbecue pavilion...

Well La-Di-DA!

It's very pretty, but oh, my! White people!

Dark. Depressing.

Racist R66

The enormously oversized rooms with giant window walls are good for a year-round hot climate, but totally impractical anywhere else.

It's soulless and hypocritical. Extremely luxurious "sustainability". I've heard her on talk shows recently. She's not very clever, like, average IQ and her mind is overtaken by lifestyle pseudo science and pseudo philosophy.

Very cool.

This looks like shit. How can you get comfortable in a house like that? It doesn’t look like a home. It doesn’t feel like a home. It probably doesn’t sound like a home when you’re inside of it. I’m shocked so many DLers like this place.

Diane Keaton's "Pinterest house" looks like a clinic/hospital in an industrial building in a prison work camp.

Hideous. Not one redeeming item in the design from what I can see. The interiors are horrific. It looks like a Goth halfway house deposited from Kentucky. The architect looks like he had a mental breakdown attempting to marry grandma's barn to those giant windows. Just a full-on fucking mess. Now in the top five of this series of insane design in the place where it should not belong. Does it have a white picket fence?

[quote] Now in the top five of this series of insane design in the place where it should not belong.

Should a window ought to be there?

It would be like living in an airplane hangar. Houses like that just aren't my taste at all.

Taking another look at the Kunis-Kutcher home, I started to wonder how well they are able to heat the place on those very cold Los Angeles nights where it goes down into the mid-to-low 30's. Heat rises to the top, and there is a lot of top going on. It must be blazin' hot way up at the very top of that barn. Good thing they have solar but still ...

Then I began thinking about those massive slider windows and all the bugs getting inside. Birds too. The thought of birds thrashing themselves into the windows trying to escape ... bird shit on the pretty, fluffy couches ... your head ... your guests heads, your children's heads!

How do Mila and Ashton retrieve wood from that soaring wood box next to the fireplace? If it is just for show then I'd steer clear of the area since it must be alive with wood pile spiders. Speaking of spiders, I wonder if the occasional tarantula wanders inside since all of those massive windows are open. Then there are the slithering snakes and other critters roaming about their 6 acres.

It's a strange house. If they love it then that is all that matters. I think it would eventually be a tough sell but buyers looking in that zip code and price range usually don't mind getting out the dozer and starting from scratch.

I wonder how long their penal sentence is....

[quote] White people!

She’s white?

This house is probably very easy to heat and cool. It’s likely sealed up tighter than most DLers’ assholes. It’s a very high performance home with high-end incorporation of the latest building science, ventilation, IAQ measures, undoubtedly a sub-1 ACH50 score, etc, etc, etc, etc.

The soaring rooms are in the "entertainment pavilion" you plebes. They don't live in those rooms, they ENTERTAIN there.

R81 You can be "entertaining" and still need a fucking parka if it's too cold in the room.

I'm obsessed with it. It's so dark and moody.

[quote] She's not very clever, like, average IQ and her mind is overtaken by lifestyle pseudo science and pseudo philosophy.

Well, she's in Los Angeles, you big silly. That pretty well describes the whole place and most everyone in it.

It’s a beautiful lot but I can’t stand the faux farmhouse look. It already feels dated and pretentious. I liked their last house better, it was refreshingly traditional; and isn’t it green to just live in a house that was already built?

Ugh. I’m nauseous after reading Mila and Ashton’s “commentary” for the AD article. They’re both so undeniably LA. Their whole “look at us and what we have done” approach is just embarrassing and smug. Why are these types of people the ones who keep living when good people die every day?

That design firm saw these two uneducated yokels coming! They took Mila and Ashton for millions of dollars and left them with a concrete Alabama airport hangar with a chandelier and called it the “modern creation of the century.” What a pile of unlivable shit. I can’t blame the designer; he saw an opportunity and cashed in.

R86 = Demi Moore

It’s just that I get a LOUD PEOPLE vibe from both Ashton and Mila. Add children and dogs.

I’d have to go outside for quiet.

The palce doesn't look very sustainable. LA is basically a desert. Everything should be low water and made out of fireproof material.

LA (and California) deserves Mila and Ashton.

Ashton Kutcher played Steve Jobs. While they never met, they lived in opposing tower penthouses at The San Remo.

I want to see this house's solar setup.

I love their home. It’s beautiful. Simple, but beautiful

Wonder if his buddy Danny will be coming over for a visit?

[quote] It's very pretty, but oh, my! White people!

Very tiresome.

Is Mila even legitimately white? Or “white” the way some people will claim Jay Hernandez is “white” even though he is mestizo?

Is Jay Hernandez the murdering football player who killed himself in prison?

R97 no, that’s Aaron. But he’s another example.

R96 “legitimately white”????

You right wing trolls are so fucking tedious.

After seeing this mess I can only recall the old saying “a Fool and his (her) money are easily parted.” It looks like a parking deck enclosed in windows.

Yes, legitimately white. People label anyone not black white these days, as if the world is two races. It’s embarrassing to see how desperate it looks.

R101 you’re embarrassing. And desperate. This is a thread about a house not weird concepts of racial qualifications gtfo.

This house is a very sound investment considering the architect. They’re very in-demand in california rn and will be for quite some time. The interiors are a mess. There’s no such thing as a sustainable single family house with a footprint and budget like this however - I wish this concept of ‘sustainability’ would disappear. You can’t put solar panels on the roof of a 25,000sq ft house and pretend you care about the environment sorry.

True r102. And the huge rooms and huge ceilings aren't very eco-friendly.

Banal and junky. Restoration Hardware and West elm styled.

I'll never understand celebrities complain about their precious privacy being invaded whenever they do all kinds of things and yet live in basically glass houses where stalkers can watch their every move at home.

If I were a celebrity, I'd live in an underground lair that would make Bond villains jealous.

I love this house- It’s the new fancy for the next generation. Gone are the marbles and gilt furniture.

I like the huge chandelier to fill up the space, the gorgeous velvet sofa, the desk posed looking outdoors where one can catch a breeze while working, and the grounds. I want bugs, and birds and critters and the tousled look where I live.

[quote]This house is a very sound investment considering the architect.

Homes with very specific design aesthetics are rarely good investments. It cuts the pool of potential buyers down significantly. The sellers usually have to reduce the sales price to the point where they end up losing money. Not a lot of people want to live in a rustic barn that costs millions of dollars.

They will have no problem selling that.

R108 this architect is a ‘get’, whether you like the taste or not, this is extremely saleable. In a sea of design/build spec houses this is a very safe and solid investment.

Celebrities are always moving in and out of houses now. Back in the old days, many celebrities lived in the same house for decades.

Their house in R85 was perfect, and much better than this Amazon warehouse. What’s wrong with these celebrities? Too much free time? They get bored and decide they want a new house?

I hate houses that are like warehouses, I find them uncomfortable and there is nothing that feels like a "home" to me.

R112 the house in R85 is not architecture, it’s an assemblage of cheap basic materials put together in a simple thoughtless way that creates habitable space. There’s no thought, nothing specific or particular about it. It’s like clothes versus fashion. The old house is a building, the new house is a piece of architecture. Again whether you like it or not is subjective, but the two are not comparable.

Like it or not, it is now a house that is publicly associated with two well known celebrities. The resale value has been pumped up a considerable amount by this appearance in Architectural Digest. They will sell for more than they paid, provided they sell before a fire takes it all.

r114 could you post links to houses you like? I'm not being snarky, I'm curious as to what you would consider a well-designed home.

[QUOTE] The old house is a building, the new house is a piece of architecture.

Funny, I think the same about these homes—but in reverse.

R117 funny, your opinion on objective realities doesn’t matter. This is one of those instances where the opinions of the non-qualified don’t really mean much. So you can have your opinion but it’s meaningless.

R110: For how long? Already this seem slike a candidate for that website, McMansionHell, even if it's bigger and more pretensious than the usual houses on that site.

[QUOTE] This is one of those instances where the opinions of the non-qualified don’t really mean much. So you can have your opinion but it’s meaningless.

Start a thread with a poll and I bet most DLers would choose to live in the R85 house.

R120 exactly. This site has zero understanding of modern design. You couldn’t have phrased it better.

Novelty isn't good design. This impractical "barn" will be plowed under while R85's place will still be around, as conventional as it might seem.

R119 you should look at the architects website. If you don’t understand the terms of what you’re looking at though then I’m not sure what you’ll learn. And I don’t mean that to be judgmental, but architecture isn’t something that is understood by most. It’s years of training, your eye, your brain, to see things in a certain way and to understand things in certain terms - not everybody gets it.

Stylistically this is not for everyone - and I’m not saying it’s necessarily good, but to compare it to the old house is just comparing two things that aren’t the same, in the structure, materials, design parameters etc etc.

I agree it’s out of scale, but all of these types of residences are. Who really needs their own theater?

R122 who’s to say which will last longer? You’re just being presumptuous. Which one adds more to the landscape of the built environment? This new one.

You’re one to talk about presumption. Didn’t you just call the R85 house “an assemblage of cheap basic materials put together in a simple thoughtless way”? How the hell do you know that?

I like their old traditional house as well. It reminds me of the house Christopher Meloni sold to come back to NYC, as I recall he lived in Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's home but with significant updating. It was a very pretty joint.

Here it is, I found it.

R125 I’m an architect, I have eyes, and I work in this particular area and encounter these places every day. And by area I mean both high end residential design and this part of Los Angeles. So that’s how I know (not presume). Glad you asked.

No wonder it looks like a Restoration Hardware store. The same architect firm actually designed them.

There is a market for celebrity and novelty homes. And there are a lot of idiots who get rich through some lucky business idea or lottery win who have no taste and look for something to show off and a novelty or celebrity home is a perfect investment for that.

So "farmhouse" in the ironic sense.

And "sustainable" because it uses solar energy. Not because they have composting toilets.

Check.

R112 I think they wanted to replace the beautiful house at R85 because it was an extremely poor match for their hideous furniture. You can see looking at the interior pics that the new house is a much closer match to their tastes. I actually find that quite understandable to be honest, I wouldnt want the new house for much the same reason - it wouldnt match my furniture etc at all

R120 I would far prefer to live in the house at R85 by far. But that hideous Walmarty looking light fitting in the dining room would have to go! I'm sure somebody would take it away for ten bucks if it were put on Craigslist

I don’t like the house at r85, very generic.

R128, HAW HAW!

“Ashton and Mila are concerned about the quality of the soil, the purity of the food they eat and the water they drink. The ideals of sustainability and regenerative farming aren’t just abstract concepts to them,”

Hypocritical cunts. They’re so into their credo that they whore themselves to do commercial for Cheetos/ Frito Lay

It looks more like a warehouse than a home. I can't stand houses like that.

All that dry-looking vegetation right near the house. Looks like the whole thing could burst into flames in a second.

I can never keep up with who he's boning.

I bet it smells like a barn. These two do not bathe regularly.

Those high ceilings are to help aerate and hide their body stench.

Pee Eww!!

^They're not stinky. Dermatologists tell you not to have your skin in hot soapy water too much, it gets dried out and you develop rashes. As long as they mop down the smelly, naughty bits regularly, they're fine.

R141, oh I luv ya....i'm off to get my face cloth to do a bit of wiping down!!

They don't bathe, so the whole place smells like ass.

r141 you smell like ass.

R144 Better that than being a nattering little half-wit like you.

r145 you need to take a shower, you stink. There's nothing wrong with soap and water. Get to know it.

My pussy stinks!

This is what I don’t understand about these types of houses.

Is that this would cost so much money and the design is very AG friendly but is furniture/design really worth the price. Everything looks like it costs an absolute fortune.

Now if they are able to get it free in exchange for the layout then that’s a different story.

Some of that furniture looks like it could be hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars, not to mention the custom work.

How practical is this for two actors? Income wise.

R148 they don’t get furniture for free. Interior designers make most of their money on furniture specification, the design fee barely comes into it. Typically the interior designer buys from dealers or manufacturers they have a relationship with, they get a trade discount, they then sell to the client for a little under retail and keep the difference. It’s like a finders fee. A lot of the furniture manufacturers won’t sell directly to people off the street, it’s an industry mechanism. And custom stuff would always be done through your interior designer, so the designer makes a kind of facilitation fee. You’re paying for access. Of course for this the designer assumes a certain amount of risk, if there are any post install issues it’s the interior designers responsibility to control the management of making the problem right, so it’s not necessarily an unfair situation to the client at all. They also have to control shipping, storage, install, hiring installers, coordinating install etc. which is a lot more work than it sounds. Manufacturers don’t typically want to deal with the end user client, because the communication is nightmarish, so it works for everyone to manage it this way.