- 8 months ago
Kendall Jenner welcomes back AD to tour her stunning mountain house retreat. Designed in collaboration with Heidi Caillier, this warm and whimsical home seamlessly combines grandma chic style, vintage charm, and bold, patterned interiors, creating the perfect cozy space for her friends and family to gather.
Shop the supermodel’s playful, pattern-rich mountain aesthetic with our editor-curated selection of furniture and decor inspired by her home: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/shopping/kendall-jenner-open-door
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00:00Hey AD, it's me again. Welcome to my mountain house. Come on in.
00:21We are in the living room now. I worked with Heidi Callier on this house and I feel like one of the
00:26first things I said to her was I really wanted like grandma chic. I wanted the kind of explosion of
00:31patterns and fabrics and textures. We made this couch to be extremely big and extremely comfy cozy.
00:38I sit tested it and made sure it was perfect. We picked this like chintz fabric. I thought it was
00:43really bold and beautiful. I have always kind of had this dream and vision of like a very just exotic
00:50kind of crazy couch that becomes the statement in the room and this one turned out perfectly.
00:54A lot of the books in the house I've like personally gone out to buy. I love finding
00:59antique shops around town and finding cute little random things that I grab and everything kind of
01:05has a story. So most of the books on this table have been found locally. I worked very closely
01:10with Heidi. Heidi probably thinks I'm so annoying because I feel like I micromanage everything,
01:15especially my homes. But we had so much fun and this house was really, I'd say like semi-experimental
01:22for me. I wanted to kind of send it. We're up in the mountains. I felt like there were no rules
01:26when designing and I really wanted to kind of test my limits and see how far we could take
01:31it while it's still feeling like me. It felt really fun, really refreshing and just a little bit
01:36different for me and I had the best time doing it. This is the most communal room in the house.
01:41We have the kitchen right here. There's the piano here. A lot of friends have ended up on this piano
01:46and we watch movies out here. Actually the other night I filled the couch for the first time from
01:52one end to the other. It was filled with people. There were some people on the floor and that made
01:56me really happy. I think one of the most special things about ground up builds is you're working
02:00on the house for so long and you're envisioning like moments with friends and you're envisioning
02:06what kind of nights and laughs and talks are you going to get into. And so it's been really cool for me
02:10to have people over and fill the space in the ways that I had dreamt and imagined for so long.
02:15So yeah it's been awesome.
02:21A friend of mine called me one day and was like I found something really really cool that I think
02:25you might like and he had found this Gibson piano online. I immediately had to pick it up. There
02:31were only 20 made from what I believe. This one is signed by Les Paul. It is such a cool little rare
02:37find. Thank you to my friend. You know who you are. And I just felt like it fits so perfectly in this
02:41house. Red is one of my favorite colors. Regrettably I don't play but I would love to learn and I think
02:46this would be the perfect place to start. But my friends you know have been in here many a times
02:52and gotten active on this thing so it gets some good use. I found this harmonica in town. There's
02:58two of them. The big one and the little one. The same friend who found me this piano he was with me in town
03:03at an antique shop and we just thought they were so cute. So they came home with me.
03:17This is the kitchen. We wanted a really open space hence it's kind of connected to the family room.
03:22When building the house and kind of figuring out how we were going to get the most light this skylight
03:27came up and I thought how perfect in a place that snows trees come through really beautifully and
03:32I think it creates such nice light in here. So that was a really genius idea on the architect
03:36and designer's part. For a while we were playing with so many ideas. Is it a color? Is it yellow?
03:42In the end I kind of sat with it and I was like there's so much going on in the house that I
03:45want it to feel a little bit more neutral. So we used the floors and the range and the details
03:50like the little curtains at the bottom of the sink and all those things as the pops of color and I'm
03:55really happy with how it turned out. I think I definitely built this house more for my friends
04:00than I did for myself. Every time I come here there's a million invites out for any one of my
04:04friends and all of them are pretty much down to come and it's just really good vibes so I wanted
04:09to create a really fun peaceful place and this has become that. My mom was looking at a house and begged
04:16me to come see it with her and when we walked in we saw a fireplace in a kitchen and we just thought
04:20it was so cute and to go along with the cozy vibes being up in the mountains and it getting pretty cold
04:25here half the year I thought the more fireplaces the better. When I got this little asparagus guy
04:30in town I kind of like shopping locally here just because it feels fun to tell a story. It's also
04:36just something fun to do in a sleepy little mountain town. My Campbell's mugs were a gift from I call
04:42her like my second mom so long ago and they sat in my house in LA for forever. I hope she doesn't watch
04:47this and I didn't really use them but I like them. So anyways when I was thinking what could I bring
04:54over here to the mountains they they made it. Now they get all the use so it was just a matter of time.
05:05This is the dining room I knew I wanted a big table because it is really pretty much the only communal
05:10place for everyone to sit and eat. We came up with this kind of big banquette idea and I love the
05:15oversizedness of it and so this room gets a lot of action now. We started this puzzle here um I'm
05:22ashamed to admit like three trips ago. It is the hardest puzzle I've ever done in my life. It is
05:29laughing at me, it's mocking me, it's ashamed of me like it's so hard. I've had maybe eight different
05:36minds on this puzzle and this is as far as we've come in three different trips just so everybody's
05:41aware but I'm finishing it. I'm committed to finishing this puzzle. But we've done dinners here
05:45and you know I do therapy here. I think one of the biggest things in this room was I wanted it to feel
05:53a bit like a sun room and that's what it turned into. The light trickles in so nicely and we have
05:57some aspen trees outside that kind of flicker the light in and it's a really pretty room.
06:01I think you guys know what this is. The most important room in the house. The bar.
06:17When thinking about this house and how casual it is up here in the mountains I thought what kind of
06:21art am I going to put in this house and I came across one of the biggest western auctions. I had
06:26the best time bidding online and finding a couple pieces for the house. It was so addicting, so much
06:31fun. It was just a joy to find and feel like I was putting intention into the house.
06:42The powder room was really important to me. It's the only one in the house and so I wanted it to
06:46feel really charming and cute. I had seen inspiration from Green River Project and they had the cutest
06:52little bathroom. It was just all wood with a colored toilet and a sink. I kind of wanted to recreate
06:57that here. I just think it feels really fun. I love this bathroom. It's a special little place.
07:12I love waking up here although I feel it's a very mature room it also feels like a little girl's room
07:17in a way and so I kind of feel like my childlike self in this room so I love waking up here.
07:22I remember being a little intimidated by the wallpaper before we put it onto the walls and
07:26thinking oh no did we make a crazy mistake. It came together so well and I'm so happy we went for it.
07:32I wanted it to feel like you want to read a million books in here and I think we achieved that.
07:36I love my ceilings in here. We did reclaimed beams with reclaimed paneling. I think it just turned out
07:42so well it really warms up the room really nicely. Obviously we have the fireplace which also feels
07:47really cozy and again read all the books in here. Just imagine book room.
07:59I love this bathroom. This burgundy color is like one of my favorite colors in the world but this
08:05bathroom has been super fun between the vaulted ceilings and just all the windows and how big it
08:10is. It's such a nice room to hang out in and my shower might be my favorite thing in this entire house.
08:17It's perfect. It's literally perfect. So we took inspiration off of the floors in the kitchen and
08:23kind of pulled it into this bathroom. Just like the peace, the quiet, the serenity like it's just fun.
08:30It's a fun shower and I recommend highly to do a checkered shower in your house.
08:42This is a adult bunk bedroom, I like to call it. We had kind of this idea of doing each bunk in a
08:50different fabric and making it its own little world. I imagine my nieces and nephews being in here,
08:55probably my future kids being in here, but I've had friends stay in this room and beds are the
09:00perfect size for an adult as well as a kid. It makes me happy. The custom red ladder, I think the
09:05red was my choice. I wanted to pop in here and I think I was begging for red at some point in the
09:10house and kept getting shut down and finally I got it. So I was really happy with this red ladder, but
09:14you know, pray for anyone that stays on the second story and has to pee in the middle of the night
09:19because it's kind of sketchy. I adore this bathroom. It feels kind of 70s inspired to me. I really
09:30love this wood bead board and then the the mix of the green with the brown. This tile again was
09:36super fun to source and I loved working with this color. I remember mentioning to Heidi that I wanted
09:41fun little random moments in the house. Things that were off-centered, maybe not super perfect. So that's
09:47where this came about. I remember watching it get put in and forgetting we'd made this decision and
09:52when the house was like wood I was like what is happening in this shower and then remembered that we
09:57chose to do this. Coming up with the pallets was also so fun in this house like looking at the tile
10:03next to the wood next to the sconce like it was also fun to to see it all together and then again
10:09have it kind of come to life was a fingers crossed moment, but it all ended up working out perfectly.
10:17We are in one of the guest rooms. This is a prime example of one of the rooms that I felt a little
10:26daring in. I'm obsessed with this iron red bed and then the polka dots on the walls again was something
10:32that felt really intimidating for me on paper and once they went in I think they work perfectly.
10:38I might sleep in here one night because I just love it so much.
10:48Bathrooms are the highlight of this house most likely. I said this in my bathroom but I believe
10:53this in this bathroom. It might be my favorite bathroom in the house. I love the color palette
10:57in here. I love this deep green on the walls mixed with the blue tile and then there's little pops like
11:02little bits of red and these lampshades and I think this bathroom turned out so beautifully.
11:07The entire room is a bit whimsical and I think this bathroom also feels a bit whimsical. I think
11:12the theme of the house is color. On the outside the house feels really simple and really clean and then
11:17you kind of come in and it feels really exciting. A few years ago I got this Bambi Airstream as a gift
11:27for my birthday. It's one of my favorite gifts I've ever gotten. When I got this house years later
11:33I thought how perfect would it be to bring this to the house and gut it and renovate it and have a
11:38little fun doing that so come on in and see. So I wanted this to act a bit as a third guest room.
11:45We took the kitchen out and took all the things that we felt were unnecessary just for this project,
11:50fixed it into the ground, did real plumbing, real electricity, real AC, heating and then added this cute
11:56little shower bath moment. So I think it's really fun. Again another room I might sleep in one of these days.
12:02I think it's so cozy. All the colors in here are just actually perfect and the lace little drapes and the
12:09bodhi pillowcases. It's very very fun. Thanks for coming and visiting me all the way up in the mountains.
12:26I'm sure I'll see you guys soon.
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