Hey, a D hello, Hello, Hello.
Welcome to California. My name is bryce Dallas howard
and this is my house, Come on, check
it out. Mhm. So when folks come by
to visit, usually the first thing they notice and
ask about our, the pet portraits there by Michael
Harnish. I love these because I love my pets
. I'm actually directing a documentary right now for Disney
plus called pets. All of the light fixtures in
the homes are by light ology. I love this
light fixture, it just reminds me of the ocean
. The console is by anthropology and there's a beautiful
vintage piece here. The next room, I'm excited
to show you is right through here. This office
we could call our office, but the truth is
is that it's Seth's office we share though. She's
in here a lot. Yeah, I'm a creep
in here all the time because I love it.
So the inspiration for me initially came from Star Trek
the next generation, but we were kind of going
for like retro futurism, like a 19 eighties depiction
of what the future would look like, kind of
an amalgamation of like bauhaus and art deco and like
neo futuristic vibes and I feel like claire thomas who
are working with helped make that here. And I
think it's absolutely incredible. So with the window treatments
I've done a Picasso series and fell in love with
cubism and as you'll see throughout the house, we
have a lot of nods to different jobs that we've
done and work that we love and so We put
the Picasso vibes in here. So this is one
of my favorite things in the house that Bryce finally
allowed me to get, I've been craving a neon
clock for a very long time. I've loved neon
clocks and this is from the 1930s, from Germany
. Uh and it does this awesome thing go for
it. I mean how cool is that? We
love nature, We love plants, we love green
. And so making sure that we had a lot
of plants in the home was very important to us
. The inspiration was late cretaceous period. So hence
this bad boy over here prehistoric vibes to the plant
life everywhere. Yeah. Mm hmm mm hmm mhm
. So this is the dining room and we were
really inspired by a few things. But specifically Miyazaki
, the filmmaker Miyazaki, we really wanted this room
to feel like nature and to feel like a forest
and to feel like starry night and clouds. You
just really feel like we were outside. We have
incredible wallpapers by schumacher and it makes me feel like
I'm in a magical forest in japan. The rug
is from armadillo and co and I love their ethos
, their a pro social company and that's very,
very, very important to me, especially in a
room like this where we're trying to honor the planet
, our ceilings are actually an antique brass and it's
really beautiful because it reflects the light again, a
fixture by light ology and you know, this kind
of just reminded us of stars. And because it
reflected the ceiling, it's just kind of scrumptious.
Mm hmm. Yeah. But I mean, so
claire thomas and I love allowed powder room instead of
kind of like ripping out all this tile and whatnot
. We decided to work with it. And so
here's some beautiful wallpaper that has special meaning for my
husband and I. We met in the early aughts
and when we had just been dating for a couple
of months, I went to go do a theater
program in Amsterdam. One of the things that Amsterdam
is known for is a beautiful tulip fields sort of
in an homage to the beginning of our relationship.
We decided to have sort of like a tulip theme
throughout the house. So that's the story of the
loud powder room. So, this piece is from
tap in and we have quite a number of pieces
actually from tapping collective. And something that was really
exciting about tapping is that they support living artists,
emerging artists. And it allows someone like myself who
has zero courage when it comes to becoming an art
collector to actually start to have a collection of our
own. Hey, you know, hey, I
didn't see you there. Oh, hi, So
yeah, so this is the living room. We
love movies. We love watching movies as a family
. We watch Mandalorian a lot on here. For
sure. Our coffee table is made by concrete collaborative
. Which is a group of sisters from Australia women
owned company based out of California and it's really,
really, really beautiful and carries on this theme of
glamorous, cretaceous. We love this toronto element and
there's like a few other places in the house,
like the breakfast area that incorporates that. And it
looks really cool. So, I directed a documentary
called Dad's a couple of years ago and when I
did dad's, I interviewed Jimmy Kimmel and he told
me a story about his oldest daughter that was Katie
Kimmel and she's made our lamps and a few other
pieces we have to Abyssinian cats that were pretty obsessed
with. And this is one of them. When
we first came here, this all looks like speaker
system and it is hiding speakers. But instead of
just having that classic like black speaker look, we
shifted this out out of the brass put in this
kind of beige color back here. We brought in
a lot of circular elements into the house to kind
of enhance that retro future vibe. This is a
pillow. It's a custom made pillow. We have
quite a number of these throughout the house. There
really cozy. They're great for the lumbar spine and
claire has called them pearl pillows. So that is
what they shall be called. I don't know.
Mm hmm. So something about the kitchen in general
is that we actually kind of transformed the kitchen but
without doing a lot of renovation work. These are
the original counters and cabinetry, but we changed some
key things in the kitchen that allowed it to be
completely transformed. The color palette for the entire house
is pretty much pink and green. That's really showcased
here in the kitchen where it's just pink and green
. So the furniture is all serena and lily,
which is so durable and so easy and so chic
. And I absolutely adore it, fireplace tile is
a B. Corp, which means that it's an
employee owned company. And they're doing remarkable work and
this tile in particular is part of their desert collection
. And what they are committed to doing in particular
with the desert collection is that they are giving a
portion of their proceeds to support the environment around the
Sonora desert. It's beautiful tile and it's beautiful for
the world and that's something that is wonderful. We
changed out a lot of the plumbing fixtures in the
house and this one is by signature hardware and we
wanted to continue the brass story in the home.
So you see a lot of brass everywhere, which
I love. It's very nice because claire is so
, so so adept at cooking, we sort of
were like just outfit the kitchen, please just tell
us what we should have. And so it's not
just chic stuff like there's like, you know,
everything looks really nice, but it's also very,
very practical. So we've actually been cooking a lot
more now that we live in this home. And
it was also something that we got a little bit
better at during the pandemic. That's for sure.
It's a work in progress, work in progress.
So this is the casual breakfast or dinner area.
We have another fun table here by concrete collaborative,
those Australian sisters that we love so much. My
favorite thing is actually behind bryce right here, you
might recognize this guy, this is Baby Yoda.
So I love baby Yoda. A lot of people
love baby Yoda, but I really, really,
really love baby Yoda to the point where I'm sort
of like, he's my son because I've I've had
the tremendous privilege of directing on the Mandalorian Since uh
since season one. And so Claire Thomas went to
Katie Kimmel and said we would love to in addition
to having the cat, we would love to also
have a garlic holder. That is a baby Yoda
. That's pretty awesome. It's it's the best.
I don't want to break it. Yeah, don't
, this is our guest bedroom. And we also
use this bedroom when we're on different schedules, which
happens happens a lot happens enough of the time.
Yeah, we added this tambor wood to the wall
just to add some texture, do something cool with
it. All of the furniture is from anthropology.
I love the shape of this because it's kind of
like a smile. It's really cute just having soothing
vibes, Something that's relaxing, especially if we're using
it when we've been working our overworked and need like
some time to ourselves is just kind of like something
that feels like you can recuperate and recover. And
then also have the abraham shades too. Just like
black out the room and sleep if you need to
during the daytime. I am in the guest bathroom
right now and it's more retro, futuristic vibes in
here. This tile is by lived in and one
of the things that I love about it is that
it's made out of recyclable materials and it's completely the
colors of our house. So we just love the
greens and kind of the pinks, peachy tones.
Another sort of like one little detail. This looks
like the Mandalorian helmet. So when I see this
tile, I'm like, oh mando, Which is
fun. Mm hmm. Mhm. Welcome to the
main bedroom in the house. Don't say it.
This is where the magic happens. I've wanted to
say that for our entire relationship, this has been
around now that you've gotten it out of your system
now that I've gotten out of my system. I
just want to say that this is where the magic
happens. She said it again and all the furniture
in here is from lulu and Georgia and it's beautiful
and it's so cozy and I think this is my
favorite room. It's like really soothing and calms you
down and it's like really restful and warm and just
loving. We actually on the walls have a custom
lime wash from Portola paints. There's also the light
fixtures and the lamps and all of that are quite
whimsical and playful and fun. And even with the
furniture, because we're inspired by that sort of like
19 eighties retro futurism with a little bit of like
a Michelle Pfeiffer scarface energy to it as well.
It's a little sexy, it's a little sexy.
Yeah, that up there is sort of like a
nest. I just absolutely love it. It's very
soothing to fall asleep at night. Looking at that
nest you sort of can get lost in it.
These lamps are really fun to play with, really
like to just play with them and touch them and
they're incredibly unique. So here are just a few
of our favorite little vintage pieces, that's something that's
new. And we absolutely love my birthday present.
It was Seth's birthday present this year and this is
an embroidered piece and the kids call us mumsy and
whoopsie! The kids call me mumsy and they call
him whoopsie sometimes whoops! And it has cherry blossoms
and it's again, it's the it's the pink and
green can't get enough of the pink and green.
I love this sofa from lulu and Georgia because it's
just really, really, really cozy and it has
again, these pearl pillows that claire made okay,
I am in the main bedroom in our house and
you'll notice on the walls that there's wallpaper of dinosaurs
. This wallpaper was actually first presented to my daughter
. She has very sophisticated taste and she's a minimalist
and she was sort of like, that's cute,
but A I hate pink and B. That's a
pretty loud print. And I immediately jumped on it
and I was like claire, can I please have
that? Can I please have that in our bedroom
? I'm in the Jurassic world movies and those have
dinosaurs and I'm very grateful to the dinosaurs in my
life that allowed for us to purchase this home.
A woman named Vivian baker has been my makeup artist
for years. She won an Oscar just a couple
of years ago and she and her husband have a
company called the makeup light and it's something that they
created so that when you look in the mirror,
there's cinema grade lighting that will light you so that
you can actually see what your face is gonna look
like under the lights. I have this little turn
dial thing which can turn it up and you can
turn it down and it's just it's a it's a
beautiful, beautiful, beautiful space. So here we
are in the main bathroom and while it's also my
husband's bathroom, he refers to it as bryce's bathroom
, which I appreciate fire, clay tile again.
And it's glazed brick and it's called Saguaro and one
of the things that I love about this that claire
pointed out to us early is that it kind of
looks like watercolor because there are irregularities from tile to
tile in a way that feels just really organic and
natural and beautiful. We also have terrazzo through here
. All custom terrazzo on the counter here. So
I absolutely adore the drapes that are in here.
They're also in the bedroom. It's really peaceful,
it's really beautiful. It's all the color tones that
we love and we actually from signature hardware, found
a green tub which is so cute. So there's
a green tub here of course as well. There's
a zillion trillion plants because the house, the exterior
of the house was all white. It was just
an opportunity to paint something. And so this is
a mural of the twin sons from tattoo way,
which is a planet that luke skywalker is from Star
Wars. So all the outdoor furniture here is by
outer and what's really cool about it is that the
covers are built into it so you don't need to
like hide them or figure out where they are.
They're actually behind the cushions and you just pull them
over the top and everything is protected. This piece
here is by our house and the plan is to
just hang out and spend some time with the fire
. Mhm Thank you so much for coming, You're
welcome anytime. But right now I'm gonna go get
ready for a wrap party for my latest drafting project
. Yes. See you later