00:00 Hello, AD.
00:03 I'm Bryce Dallas Howard and welcome to my New York home.
00:07 Come on inside.
00:08 Let me show you around.
00:21 We are in the living room right now.
00:24 About six years ago, my husband and I and my children were moving to New York and we
00:30 knew that we wanted to live in this area.
00:33 So we kept driving around and my husband kept pointing at this house and he kept saying,
00:40 "Oh, I wish that house was for sale."
00:42 Just a few days later, someone called us and said, "We saw that you were visiting houses
00:46 in the area.
00:47 There's a house that's not on the market yet and we wanted to see if you'd be interested."
00:50 And it was this house.
00:51 This house was built in 1937, but what I love about it is that it's actually a replica of
00:58 an 18th century home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, actually where I filmed my first movie, a
01:03 movie called The Village over 20 years ago.
01:06 Something that was very important to preserve was actually the wood on the ceiling and the
01:11 floor.
01:12 It's very unique.
01:13 The wood is over 90 years old and it is very important to preserve it.
01:17 It's one of the only houses with this kind of wood left intact.
01:21 And so in a way, the choices that were made in this room was to showcase that wood and
01:26 really celebrate the character of the house.
01:28 The curtains, they're Morrison Co. and it's actually called The Strawberry Thief.
01:33 And if you look closely, you can see that there are strawberries being stolen.
01:37 But we're okay with that.
01:40 Pretty much everything in this room is by Rejuvenation, which is a company I love so
01:46 much.
01:47 This is my favorite chair on planet Earth and I'm going to demonstrate what's so great
01:50 about this chair.
01:55 I just think this is so comfy cozy.
02:01 When we got the house, this was like one of the rooms that I fell in love with immediately
02:04 and there were already so many incredible qualities about it.
02:08 The floors, this epic stove, I just found it to be so, so, so, so, so beautiful.
02:14 We added this island here and these bistro chairs.
02:18 They're from Serena and Lily.
02:20 They bring kind of like a Parisian vibe to the entire room.
02:25 As you can see over here, there is a ton of depression ware everywhere in this house.
02:31 This all belonged to my grandmother, my dad's mom, and she collected this depression ware.
02:36 And I actually had it for years and years and years hidden behind doors and cabinets
02:41 and whatnot.
02:42 And the moment that Claire Thomas saw this, she was like, "Oh my gosh, this is the inspiration
02:46 for the entire house."
02:48 So that's really beautiful.
02:49 I also, I should say that I love this sink.
02:53 You shouldn't look inside of it, but it is so deep.
02:55 I will demonstrate it with my hand.
02:57 So I'm now at the bottom of the sink.
03:00 So it's a very deep sink, which is fantastic because you can put a lot of dishes in there
03:05 and you don't have to deal with it until it's peeking out of the top.
03:10 Don't tell my kids I said that because I would never let them get away with that, but definitely
03:14 a selling point.
03:20 This is the dining room, which can also be called the sunroom.
03:24 I love this room.
03:25 We actually, we built this room.
03:27 We added it onto the house when we first moved in here.
03:30 You can see here the original stone exterior of the home.
03:34 It's a detail that I absolutely adore.
03:37 When Claire was designing the house, I don't know why, but I just kept being really obsessed
03:42 with Sense and Sensibility and we were just leaning way into Jane Austen world.
03:48 And so there's a kind of like light antique quality that existed in all of the adaptations
03:53 of her books.
03:54 And so there's something just about this room in particular that reminds me a lot of Sense
03:58 and Sensibility.
03:59 This table here is a table that's been in my family for a long time and it's great because
04:05 it's big and I have a big, giant family.
04:08 This is a lovely tablecloth that was custom made and just a little detail here.
04:14 Tulips.
04:15 My husband and I fell in love in Amsterdam and so there's always kind of like a tulip
04:20 motif happening in our life.
04:24 Something to mention here.
04:27 Morris & Co. again.
04:29 And these drapes are actually very special.
04:31 They're called Willow Bough and as you can see, they're embroidered.
04:36 But it's this idea of bringing nature inside of the home.
04:40 And this is a mint green after green depression wear that my grandmother gave to me.
04:45 There's so much of it and it's absolutely so beautiful.
04:48 There's a piano.
04:50 It's my family's piano.
04:52 They've made a point of telling me that I do not own the piano, that I am just borrowing
04:56 the piano.
04:57 But this is a piano that I took lessons on when I was a kid and everything.
05:01 So it's great to have it here.
05:07 This is the office.
05:08 We actually used this room primarily as a classroom during the pandemic and since then
05:14 it is my office.
05:16 Most of the furniture is from Denver Modern, another fantastic company.
05:21 Heirloom quality furniture, American made.
05:24 One of my favorite filmmakers is Wes Anderson and he has such a signature style.
05:29 So this room in particular is very Wes Anderson inspired.
05:35 There are vignettes and tableaus and all of that kind of everywhere.
05:39 There's a kind of playfulness about his filmmaking and his visuals that I really wanted to embrace
05:44 and yet it's also incredibly sophisticated.
05:47 This is the wallpaper.
05:48 The colors here, this kind of dusty rose, I just found to be really beautiful.
05:53 It's bringing nature inside and it's really reminiscent of that kind of 18th century kind
06:00 of powder color palette.
06:02 The paint colors, again it's that pink and mint green.
06:06 It's from Claire Paints but the actual name of the paints, the pink is called Meet Cute
06:13 because this is a rom-com that's happening right here and the mint green is actually
06:19 called Two Scoops.
06:21 So you know, it's adorable, absolutely adorable.
06:31 Welcome to the primary suite.
06:34 This room I adore.
06:36 It feels like joyful springtime and there's a reason why it feels joyful.
06:43 It's because all the furniture in this room is from Joybird, one of my favorite, favorite,
06:47 favorite companies.
06:48 I work out of my room 100% of the time, pretty much.
06:54 I feel very cozy, very focused and I just, for whatever reason, the vortex that is my
07:01 room is ideal for work and so what that means is that I need a place to work.
07:08 I don't love desks but I do love giant, giant chairs and this is called the Bryant Chair
07:16 and a Half.
07:17 I curl up on this and spend the entire day here.
07:23 It's really an amazing chair.
07:24 When I originally moved in here, we actually, we put a sofa in this room but it was kind
07:31 of overwhelming, the room.
07:32 It wasn't really right and so this bench was bought for $100 at an auction in Hudson Valley.
07:39 It was just a fantastic solution because you know, I can, as you can see, I kind of use
07:44 it to, you know, where I put my art books and you know, some pottery and all of that
07:48 but when folks come into the room, I can easily set these things aside and there's plenty
07:52 of seating area.
07:53 This is a limited edition print from a Polish-American artist named Maja who's based out of Los Angeles
08:00 and I just, you know, I found it really gorgeous.
08:03 Oh, Grandma Jean, Grandma Jean.
08:05 Okay, so this is the most important person.
08:10 This is my grandmother, my Grandma Jean, my dad's mom.
08:14 She was an actress and absolutely a total ham.
08:18 She was very hilarious and so much of this house is, you know, has really been inspired
08:24 by her and so the house is pink and green thanks to her.
08:33 This is the guest room.
08:34 It's cold.
08:35 I'm gonna legit light a fire.
08:37 I love this room because, you know, it is a place that I love to go and like hang out,
08:43 light a fire but because it's not the living room, I can shut the door.
08:47 There we go.
08:48 This will heat up really soon.
08:52 Something that we did with this room was we really repurposed and kind of zhuzhed a lot
08:57 of our vintage pieces that we had gotten from Rubbish Interiors in Los Angeles.
09:02 This desk we've had for, gosh, almost 20 years.
09:05 We've had this lamp forever.
09:07 We love this color green and so it really inspired this Morris & Co. wallpaper.
09:14 Like when we saw this wallpaper, we were like, "Oh my gosh, we know what room that wallpaper
09:18 is going in."
09:19 The bedding, okay, this bedding is from Parachute Home and it's called the Cloud Duvet.
09:24 It feels like a cloud.
09:26 My husband has a very serious record collection.
09:30 Here's a nice old record player here and here are his records and we hardly ever see him
09:34 when he's in this room.
09:36 So this Claire also got on an auction and when you're bidding at an auction, they give
09:43 you a sense of the size but maybe it's an estimation, maybe you're not actually reading
09:48 it, but this is meant to be a vase for flowers.
09:51 It's actually an umbrella holder but it's super cool, super, super cool and works perfectly
09:56 for flowers.
09:57 So this little vase is another tremendous example of scale and when you bid for things
10:04 online you might not have a sense of the size and so this we thought was going to be, you
10:10 know, size of a regular vase and it's a little itty bitty baby vase and I love it.
10:17 So we've got the very big asparagus umbrella holder that holds flowers and we have the
10:22 very mini little kind of Grecian vase.
10:25 We misassessed and we love it.
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10:36 This is my daughter's room.
10:38 My daughter's favorite color is blue so this room is blue.
10:42 This here, we actually had this built for her so that she could have, you know, a desk
10:47 in her room because it's not a super giant space and there's a radiator under there and
10:52 so she gets to keep her legs very warm while she's doing her homework and whatnot.
10:57 My grandmother made this for me.
10:59 She used to sew a lot and she would make dolls for me and kind of my Halloween costumes and
11:04 all of that and they're reminders of her everywhere.
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11:13 Alright, this is the guest house.
11:17 This used to be an attic and when I first came and looked at the house, it's actually
11:24 above our garage and I remember seeing this window and just thinking like, "Huh, if there's
11:31 a window, then there must be some space up there."
11:34 So sure enough, we came up here and there's, you know, very, very low ceilings admittedly
11:39 but it was very obvious that this could be a usable space.
11:42 My husband's grandmother absolutely loved yellow.
11:46 We would always, like for her, you know, birthdays and Hanukkah and everything, we would always
11:51 get her something that was yellow and so, you know, this space is an ode to her.
11:57 Parachute Home makes such great bedding but they also have come out with a furniture line
12:04 and so we've got this piece here, white oak coffee table.
12:09 It's really nice.
12:10 It really completes the space.
12:11 I love to sit here.
12:13 I love this little alcove.
12:15 It's just the best.
12:16 And I get to look out and, you know, grab my laptop and watch my neighbors walk by.
12:24 It's great.
12:25 It's a great community.
12:26 Bye, AD.
12:45 Thank you so much for coming.
12:46 I'll see you next time.
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