Every Way Emma Chamberlain Has Updated Her Home _ Architectural Digest

Hey Dee, welcome back to my house. I've changed a few things around here. I'll show you around. I feel like over the last few years I've been slowly but surely filling in the blanks in this house. I feel like that's the only way to do it when you first move in. You don't really know what you need, what should go where. It's just, it's like that sort of comes to you as you live in a space. And so over time I've been sort of figuring out what I am missing. For example, this little sponge holder. Are you kidding? This is so cute. But I didn't know I needed this when I first moved in here. But I was like kind of sick of this vibe. I didn't like that. And a lot of the pieces I've collected since moving in here have been like flea market finds, vintage store finds. It's kind of a journey. And that's why I'm so happy you're back. Like look, you think this is just for show? There's sweet treats in there. This is my sweet treat jar. I like to find myself through being eclectic, mixing and matching. I love so many different things from so many different eras. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, medieval times, who knows? But when I sort of tapped into that, I found that it magically had a cohesion because the through line was me. I do love birds. Kind of like favorite category of animal, I would say. I just love them. I also love Granny Smith apples. This is not like, oh, this is here because it's cute. Like I will eat all these apples. It really, that's actually true. Cute little cart. Close your eyes, it's a summer day. And I'm pouring a glass of lemonade for you in this cute little apple cup. Just imagine how you'd feel if that happened to you. I think you'd enjoy it. I do really like playful items. I'm trying to strike a balance of like beauty, perhaps elegance in the home with playfulness because that's who I am as a person as well. I enjoy a playfulness, but I also enjoy like, yeah, maybe a little bit of elegance perhaps. Hey, yeah, I'd say that. Why not? Another apple thing. And it smells a little bit like apples as if it doesn't already smell like apples enough in here because there's, I think 200 apples in my kitchen right now. This area of my house has changed so much. It's random, but the entryway flow is so important. Like you need to be able to throw the keys down, throw the glasses down, lightly place the glasses on a cute little pigeon glasses holder. Like there's something about just being able to walk in and just throw stuff down, but have it also be cute. That's so important. Also too, new addition, new addition, a little shoe bench. Imagine me putting my little shoes on right here on this cute little bench. And then there's actually nothing in this drawer right now, but this is a new piece for my collection with West Elm. It's really exciting. I'm putting pieces that I made into this home. It's kind of a magical moment. We're kind of breaking it in together and to be back with you and we're here. And now there's pieces in my home that I got to design with West Elm because they're way better at the actual design stuff than me. I just have cute little ideas and I'm like, Hey, can you do that? And they were like, yeah, to 90%. And then to 10%, they were like, Emma, that's like physically impossible. This cutesy little pillow has a lot of little fun things on it. But a lot of these things are also tattoos that I have an apple, apple. We have lighthouse. There's a lighthouse, a little cottage. That's the house I grew up in. We have birds. I have a bird. They're special to me, but I think hopefully they can find meaning to others as well. I also, I'm obsessed with buttons, have a button tattooed on my arm, button inspired button on a candle. It smells exactly like buttons. You won't believe it. Oh my God. My favorite pillow ever. Button pillow. Also button tray. Like does Emma have any other things that she likes? There's also button coasters. This room is particularly buttony. Like I promised the buttons will sort of like phase out. I have to talk about what I'm most excited about in here, which is my new wait for it. Wait for it. Game table. Boom. Where was this the first time? If I'm being completely honest, when we were like designing this room, I was like, it's going to be really gorgeous, but I'm never going to use it. This room is all about gathering, being social. There's no TV in here. It's interesting. Like I never would have thought of putting a table in a living room. It was actually my mom's idea. She saw this table from the West Elm collection and was like, that needs to go in your living room. And it needs to be a game table. This little area has changed up a bit. And to be honest, I love this piece so much, but I don't necessarily have the place for it for its like intended purpose. So I was like, how can I make it make sense? Well, it's now my game dresser. I had like a hosting phase a few years ago, kind of fell out of it. We're bringing it back 2026. Emma's hosting game night. This painting is actually somewhat of a family heirloom that I just received. And it's of these, these dudes in games. And so just like all really fit. Speaking of art, I finally finished my gallery wall after years. Actually, it's not finished. There's still some gaps, but this is now like a complete collection. I will say though, the one piece that has been on this wall since day one and will be here probably forever. This is a piece that my dad did for this wall. It's just a blessing to have a dad who's an artist. There is a piece I painted on this wall and it is a bad, here's a self portrait. It's not great, but there's something kind of funny about it to me. And to be honest, I just needed something to hang here. Otherwise I wouldn't have hung it up. Cause it's really not that good. Aren't these cute though? My cats are in here. So if you hear a little bit of meowing or hissing, cause they like to play. Although it's like, is it playing? If you guys are hissing, there is what's going on, big dog. All right. This room, the last time you were here, I had a different couch and it was a rental couch because I didn't have this couch yet. This is the couch I was always meant to have. It's kind of a relief to have you here. I'm like, no, you're, you're seeing the truth. This is great for like a little movie night. I've played video games in here. And then there's little things like this. I don't know. Sometimes I'll see a little thing like this and I just have to have it. I also used to have a drum set in here. It was right in the middle of the room as though I'm a full-time musician. No, I'm not. When I say I'm not very good at drums, I'm actually awful. I enjoy doing it anyway. There are still some guitars because one day the music will flow out of me. I just don't know when. So I decided to turn this space into sort of half office, half hangout space. I like this room because it's very cozy and I work from home. To me, I was like, let's just make another spot to sit around on my laptop app. The other desk I have is in my podcast recording studio, which is a very boring room over there. We're not even going to look at that today because it's boring. And so now here's my new like real desk. There's nothing I can't do here. I journal. I've been journaling daily. I have been known to watercolor paint. You'll notice I do a lot of self-portraits. Huge red flag about my personality. And every single time the proportions are very off. Also, I did make this. This is a little glasses thing. So I could also make things out of clay here too. It is weird how much art that I make that is just of me. I don't know why I do that. But anyway, if I talk to a therapist about it, I'll let you know. I know she hates she's not, she's more of a behind the scenes girl, you know? Now we're in my bedroom. So this ottoman is a new addition. I wanted something soft to have at the end of my bed. What I love about this piece is this little pocket. You can put a book remote control for the TV. Like I love little things like that. It's just this gorgeous mossy green color. I feel like the energy I'm trying to cultivate in my room, kind of like a soft mossy garden. It makes sense to me. You might look at my room and say, this is not a soft mossy garden. Cause it's not, there's like pops of red. It doesn't quite feel like that. But to me, I don't know. It sort of feels outdoor to me. I love this basket. It's actually, if you look at it, it's another apple. So this I love, this is my new vanity. I am so excited about this. This is like the vanity that I wish I had when I was a kid. I have another vanity that has like all my makeup and all that stuff. This is more so my vanity for like, I want to sit down and I want to enjoy doing my skincare. I just want to soak it up. I want to enjoy it. I want to put on my little headband and I want to open all my little drawers and get out all my little skincare. And I want to do all my little things. I want to take out my earrings for the day, put them in this little tray. That's the energy. This is like, I actually have to put my earring back in. Cause like, you know, okay, now we're back. Before this area had a little tree and it had like a little table for a little while. Like it was more of just kind of a visual moment. And now this is such a special little corner for me. The home is sort of always a work in progress. Like in a way it really is a relationship where over time you're learning how to work together. It's kind of the same thing with a home. You know, you're figuring out where you like to spend the most time. At what time the light shines through what window and where it makes sense to have a desk or where it doesn't. Are you going to play the drums or was that just something you did when you were bored during COVID? You know, then you figure these things out. Kind of letting the home grow with you. I think that's the sentiment. Well, thank you for stopping by. It was a joy to have you back. You're welcome anytime, but I don't think things are going to change for a while. So maybe I'll see you in like three years. Cheers.