00:00Hello, AD. What are you doing here? Just kidding. Welcome to our home.
00:18This is the gun room. I should contextualize this experience for you. The house was built
00:23in 1924. The gentleman who owned it had 3,000 acres around here. We have 125. It was built in
00:31the design of a Scottish hunting lodge. I personally have never been to a Scottish hunting lodge, so
00:37I'm going to have to take a word for it. This was the gun room and where they would store all
00:41their guns and go on a hunt. They had a pheasant farm here and a number of other things. So,
00:46let me show you this right over here so you can see exactly what I'm talking about.
00:50There are these little gun butt kind of indentations right here. We put these
00:56shelves in on both sides, but guns were lined up on both sides of this door.
01:05Check this out. You know what this is? This is a prohibition bar. Now, we have the original
01:12blueprints of the house, right? So, we know that this room was called a linen closet,
01:17but it ain't a linen closet. This is where I get to do my thing. This is where they kept all of
01:22their liquor for all of their friends that kind of came over. They entertained kind of the likes
01:27of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Babe Ruth, Walt Disney, Joan Crawford, even the House of Windsor. What's
01:33so special about this and the history of this place is that all of the people that drank here
01:38actually signed the wall. This is the signatures of some of the people that signed the wall.
01:45This is Edna St. Vincent Millay here at the top and Hal Erskine and a number of other people.
01:50Joan Crawford's name was right over there in the corner, but they covered it up with
01:55stain when we were redoing this room. Joan, I'm so sorry. In keeping with tradition with what
02:01they did in this bar, I have asked a number of my friends to begin signing this wall,
02:07because socializing and having friends over and talking is very, very important to me and my
02:13family. Rosebud. Just kidding. So we're in the Hudson Valley and as you can imagine, it's cold
02:23and it certainly would have been much colder than it was today in the 1920s. So all of the
02:28fireplaces in this house are practical. The one thing in this room I did want to show you is this.
02:33This is a bronze casting of my hand from the Haifa Lake. This Roman artisan made a sculpture
02:40out of it and presented it to Quentin at the premiere of the Haifa Lake in Rome.
02:47Oh, Architectural Digest, you're still here? Just kidding. Okay, come this way. I want to show you
02:52something. This is a gift from Sam Jackson. It's a gun that he gave us on the Haifa Lake. He gave
02:59seven of us the gun. He gave Jennifer Jason Lee a Prada purse and she said, you can keep the Prada
03:04purse. I want the gun. This is the living room. It literally is my favorite room in the house. We
03:19spend a lot of time in this room as a family. There are, what, 20 windows in this room and so
03:25you can kind of look out and see the seasons as they change. The sun comes up right over there
03:31and we wake up early in the morning and have a cappuccino and sit in here and watch the sun come
03:37up. It's very romantic. When we were designing this house, we wanted it to feel like it felt in
03:481923, like it's a living salon. We contacted a dear friend of ours who became our interior
03:54architect, Sean Henderson, who is an unbelievable designer. In this home, he just helped us reframe
04:00this experience and begin to think how we could live in it as a family. I like things that are old
04:06that feel lived in and worn and a lot of the little bitty things that you see on all of these shelves
04:11as we walk through the house or even lamps or even chairs. They're just things that I've just
04:15kind of picked up along the way in my travels. I'm a firm believer in not having to walk more
04:21than three or four feet without having a place to sit or with a drink and a friend and having
04:28a conversation. I think that that's what life is really all about. Can we just look at this
04:33fireplace? This is 120 years old. I sit here in front of this fire with my wife or with a friend
04:40and have a glass of wine and I just think about all the conversations that were had around this
04:45fire over 100 years and it just fills me with so much joy. It's very important for me to say this.
04:53There are a lot of artisans and artists that went into the making of our home in this community
05:01that we now call home and some of those people are James Romanchuk and his son Dave, Jake Saka
05:07who did all of the plumbing, again Sean Henderson our architectural designer and Dean Warner who did
05:13the electricity, Chris Gregory who masked all of the walls around here and again I just think it's
05:20so important to say that like making a movie, an actor doesn't make a movie, a director doesn't
05:25make a movie. A team of people show up every day and pour their hearts into it.
05:32This is a painting by a friend of mine Danny Fox and you'll see Danny and Wes Lang in a lot of
05:39places. They're my best friends and I'm very fortunate to have a few of their pieces and
05:44they're bangers if you know what I mean. Come with me. So then that leads into this hallway.
05:52Check this thing out. This is what's so cool about this. This was the main entrance to the house.
05:59We decided to close this entrance off to the house and kind of redid all the stone outside so that
06:04this is kind of like our personal wing but this was the the main entrance to the house and it's
06:09just one of my favorite rooms in the whole house. It's just a hallway but what a magnificent hallway
06:16it is. You'll see a lot of art in this home. That's what I do. That's what I'm passionate
06:25about. It's about collecting things and finding things that are meaningful to me. I spend a lot
06:29of time in antique shops and flea markets and things of that nature but I've been collecting
06:34art for about 28 years and I started when you know tips from Ballet Park and just a little
06:39bitty thing and now 28 years later you know we've accumulated a lot of art and having our son exposed
06:46to art is one of the most important gifts I think that we've been able to give him.
06:53This is my ass and it's my son's ass and we are walking in a river up here in the Hudson Valley.
07:02He's probably three there so it would have been about 11 years ago. What I also really love about
07:07this room is the view. We live in the Hudson Valley so it's constantly filled with deer or wild turkey
07:13or black bears or me walking naked talking to myself studying lines. You can see all of those
07:21things outside this window. And now I'm going to take you to the kitchen. This is where the cooking
07:36happens and guess what? I do none of it. Zero. My wife she does all of it. She's an incredible cook.
07:44I'm very lucky to have a partner who enjoys cooking as much as my wife does. Although I do
07:48cook a mean sourdough and I cook some unbelievable focaccia. Maybe you've heard of it. These are just
07:55like old plates that we kind of found and this little piece of art right up here was the first
07:59piece of art that I bought from a friend of mine. That one and this one almost 28 years ago but
08:05these are just things that we've kind of collected. These are ants. There's some ants right here.
08:11Again they're just fans of my focaccia. This is a table that we had at our house in Los Angeles and
08:17it was too long for here so we just cut it down. We live in the woods so it's not like you can kind
08:24of run down to the store and get everything that you need. There was a lot of thought and a lot of
08:28effort that kind of went into all of this. The other thing that I'm really passionate about is
08:32lighting. I just have been collecting light fixtures for a really long time. This is one of
08:36them we got from a friend of ours. Not a lot of variety in the lamps that I like. Most of them are
08:42brass or copper. The thing that my family can't stand is how low I usually keep the lights and
08:49they're constantly like you see everything is on a dimmer. See that? Everything's on a dimmer.
08:54I'm going to do an impersonation of my family whenever they walk into a room and
08:58the lights go up and as soon as they leave
09:05the lights go down.
09:13Oh I'm so sorry Architectural Digest. I was just having a moment to myself.
09:17This is the TV room. Movies are a really big part of my and my son and my wife's life so we spend a
09:24lot of time in this room watching movies especially when it gets dark early and there's snow outside.
09:38This is my office and it's kind of a big wide open space. This is a desk that I've had for about 10
09:45years. It's just really personal to me with again a bunch of things that I've collected over the
09:51years. I have stuff everywhere. This is a board where I keep all kind of my inspiration and
09:57and things that you know I've done kind of over the years and things that really matter to me.
10:02A lot of pictures of my son. Hey that's Tim Oliphant and that's me. That's Raylan and Boyd right there.
10:12Pretty cool. This is my personal space and this this room is it's me. When we bought the house
10:20this is actually three bedrooms and a bathroom up here and the rooms were really small and then
10:25this was the caretaker's bedroom but we turned this into a bathroom. You know the thing about
10:31this house when we bought it it hadn't been touched in a hundred years. Every system in the house was
10:37on the precipice of failing. I mean over the course of that year we learned so much about
10:43this house the history of this place but we learned so much about ourselves and what it
10:48takes to bring a house back to life and we're better for it because it's literally
10:56the place that we want to be for the rest of our lives.
11:07So this is our bedroom. The guy who built the house this was his bedroom and the way that he
11:12designed this house is extraordinary in the sense that the living room faces south and so it gets
11:19sun all day long whereas this room in particular faces east so you wake up in the morning and then
11:26you see the the sunrise. The first time that we saw it we didn't expect it and we woke up
11:32with the sun kind of hitting our eyes and we couldn't believe what we were looking at that
11:37this man had the foresight to position this in such a way with the architects that they used to
11:42build it that allowed you to wake up to nature kind of in that way. It blew our minds but it
11:49really opened up our hearts and I can't believe that we get to live here. You've seen my bed but
11:56there's one bed that you haven't seen. We have a black lav and she's the kind of the nucleus the
12:02heart of of our family. Well she would sleep on our sofas and they're made out of velvet and when
12:09we moved here to the Hudson Valley we were taking apart an old couch that we had and I said oh don't
12:14throw that away let's make the dog's bed out of our old sofa and then maybe she'll have her own
12:23velvet bed and she won't sleep on our sofa but it didn't work. She still sleeps on our sofa.
12:44A.D. thank you so much for letting us share our home with you. We really appreciate you coming
12:49out. It's a place that's very special to us and we hope you enjoy your time. Be careful driving home.
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