00:00Let me show you outside, come on.
00:01Everyone loves living in L.A. for the outdoor space.
00:04There's the fire pit with some strange balls in there.
00:07Yeah, this is the meadow.
00:09The kids definitely make s'mores on the fire.
00:11That's what it's gonna look like
00:13when we eventually get the chickens.
00:14♪♪
00:23♪♪
00:25So, we are outside,
00:27and we're in the back of the house.
00:29I'm on the bluff at the ocean,
00:30and this is all original to the house.
00:33It's freezing in Malibu at nighttime,
00:35so to have a fire pit out here is really nice.
00:39The kids definitely make s'mores on the fire, for sure,
00:42and this is the best place to either have coffee
00:45in the morning or a drink at night.
00:47This tree, it's a yucca tree,
00:49and I just think it's so sculptural and gorgeous.
00:52And so, when we chose the color for the sofas,
00:54that was really our inspiration.
00:56One of my biggest struggles as a mother
00:58is, like, getting the kids away from the TV
01:00and away from the iPads, right?
01:02So, sometimes, I just banish them to those chairs,
01:05and I make them sit there and watch the ocean
01:09and tell me what you see.
01:10♪♪
01:15So, we're at the pool right now,
01:17and in California, we really keep shallow pools
01:19because we have to be conscious,
01:21and the pool is the perfect place to hang out
01:23in this California heat,
01:24even though it's not that hot today.
01:26Typically, this house is not very peaceful.
01:29When you have a beach house,
01:30a lot of people want to come and visit.
01:32And so, this place, we always have the music blasting,
01:35and there's always so many kids
01:37running around and playing in the pool.
01:40My husband usually stays behind that bar
01:42and makes pina coladas and margaritas for everyone.
01:45It's a really fun space.
01:47♪♪
01:50Well, this is the backyard.
01:52This is the pool, not much of a backyard,
01:54but I actually use this pool very often,
01:56whether it's for recovery or for entertainment.
01:59And I like how it's set up.
02:00You know, it's courtyard style,
02:02and I feel like every section
02:04is kind of facing towards the pool.
02:05So, you know, we have a good time out here.
02:07Our projector screen, it comes down
02:09right over that box over there,
02:10and you can watch it from the pool.
02:12You can watch it from the hot tub.
02:13You can even see it from inside the house.
02:15So, you know, it takes up the whole backyard.
02:17Once it gets dark, it lights up pretty well.
02:20♪♪
02:25So, right now, we're on our patio,
02:28the pool, dining, our lovely seating area.
02:32We wanted it to be large enough
02:34so we could have a ton of people out here
02:36because that's our plan is to have friends
02:38and everybody just come and visit.
02:40We have this lovely fire pit, hot tub,
02:42and we love the little tanning shelf over there
02:45so you can sit in the water in the heat
02:47and also get some sun.
02:49What's cool is this is the golf course.
02:51So when I drive by here, you know, I text Anna,
02:55and I say, hey, we're coming by.
02:57And she says, okay, and that's it.
03:01I love the whole house,
03:02but if I have to pick two favorite,
03:03one is the bunk bedroom, which I can show you later,
03:06and the other is this little cool putting green over here.
03:08So come on.
03:09It's not a big putting green.
03:11It's a small one, but that's okay.
03:12You can still work on, like, a 15, 20-foot putt.
03:18Done.
03:19We are in the backyard.
03:21When we throw parties, we just open these doors.
03:24People spill out to this area.
03:26We have a couple of pieces out here that I've named.
03:30I like to name a few statues.
03:34This is Joe Jonas, and that's Peter.
03:36Peter's from our last house.
03:38He was the first thing that we bought in our last house
03:42in a big, empty living room,
03:45and now we've put him out to pasture.
03:47Now we've put him out to pasture.
03:49Yeah, but we like that he's out here.
03:51♪♪
03:57So this is a piece that Mandy commissioned.
04:00Um...
04:01-♪♪
04:04This is our pool.
04:05We're hosting weekly toddler swim classes here right now,
04:09so you're seeing a few remnants of pool toys,
04:13and these umbrellas are beautiful.
04:15They remind us of being at Lake Cuomo in Italy
04:19at the Passalacqua Hotel.
04:20Oh, wow.
04:22That's right? Like, doesn't it feel like we're there?
04:23Yeah, feels like it there.
04:24Feels like you're there.
04:25I love being in the pool.
04:27Justin, not so much, so he usually sits in the shade
04:30or perches here and has a drink,
04:32and then I will be in the pool.
04:35We have had a few pool parties,
04:36and look forward to hosting kid pool parties
04:39as they get older. Yeah, for sure.
04:40I've always wanted chickens,
04:42so Justin got this chicken coop
04:44when we first bought this house,
04:46and we still don't have chickens.
04:48That's what it's gonna look like
04:50when we eventually get the chickens,
04:52and the chicken's name is Victoria Beckham,
04:54and we're gonna get four more,
04:55and I'm sure you can guess
04:57what the other four names are gonna be.
04:59So, Spice Girls, okay.
05:00♪♪
05:03So, the cottage is on a private estate
05:05that has belonged to a family for hundreds of years,
05:07and the gardens down at the bottom
05:09are designed by Capability Brown,
05:11who was an extraordinary garden designer,
05:13and they let me roam around
05:14their beautifully manicured park land.
05:16But this property that belongs to me
05:18is about 1 1⁄2 acres,
05:19and it's the only freehold cottage on the estate,
05:22but there's a gamekeeper up the road,
05:24and there's somebody else
05:25who works on the estate down there,
05:26so it feels very, very isolated,
05:28but it's nice to know that there are people nearby.
05:30Yeah, this is the meadow.
05:32♪♪
05:37Of course, everyone loves living in L.A.
05:40for the outdoor space,
05:41and this house does not disappoint.
05:44I got these wooden beams made
05:47to follow the curvature of the iron
05:51that was already here.
05:52Eventually, I'm hoping that my vines
05:56will grow in and cover all of this,
05:58but it's just really taking its time.
06:01This is, like, the side door.
06:02I just love how the ivy's growing up it.
06:05The ivy over this house is one of my favorite things ever,
06:09because when do you get a brick house in L.A.
06:12that's covered in ivy?
06:13It's very rare.
06:15The maintenance of this house is, it's a lot.
06:17It's definitely a lot.
06:18♪♪
06:19We have our pool, very necessary in L.A.
06:23One of my friends found this chair at a vintage store.
06:26I'm obsessed, especially because it plays
06:29into the murals I had painted outside.
06:32So when I moved in, this was just a white wall,
06:34and I was like, that seems like such a wasted opportunity
06:38for something really cool to happen.
06:40So I found this artist, Carly Kuhn,
06:42who does the coolest single-line portraits,
06:47and I'm just obsessed.
06:48It brings so much life to the place.
06:50She also did these.
06:51We call them the levers.
06:53♪♪
07:00Welcome to what I like to call my little piece of heaven.
07:04What I love the most about this garden
07:06is that it's full of flowers.
07:08I love flowers.
07:10My garden is amazing.
07:11He and I have sat here for hours
07:13deciding what we want, how we want it.
07:15I'm just so proud of us.
07:17Look how far we've come.
07:19This is the traditional color of the flooring.
07:22We just kind of kept it the same.
07:23It's a little scruffy, because it's London.
07:25We live in a city, so this is the truth.
07:27But I want to show you something really cute.
07:29Look at these little foot marks.
07:30Back in the day, when they first laid this down,
07:32a little naughty fox came and stood on the cement
07:35and left it like that.
07:37Bit of character for you.
07:38There's another fireplace there.
07:40This is a big traditional sundial,
07:42and we actually have the original sundial
07:44at the back of the garden.
07:45This is where I sort of sit, have a tea,
07:49and then I sort of look at this big tree that I have,
07:52the weeping willow.
07:54Let me take you through the pond.
07:55♪♪
07:58I got these from Portobello Market,
08:00which is where I grew up in West London.
08:02Shout out West London.
08:04Here we have a beautiful passageway.
08:07Welcome to my green piece of secret heaven.
08:12Here is where we really just hang out.
08:15We put a carpet down here or a little blanket or something,
08:18and I just have the best time sitting here
08:20and just smelling the flowers.
08:21That's basically what we do.
08:22♪♪
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