INSIDE ROBERT DOWNEY JR.ÂS WINDMILL HOME IN THE HAMPTONS | OPEN DOOR | ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

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Nov 6, 2022
Hi, I'm Jessica.
I'm Honor.
I'm Haven.
And this is Hayes.
Welcome to our home.
Come on in.
We moved in about seven months ago
and the house didn't look anything like this.
We worked with Clements Design.
And here in the foyer,
I think this is one of the biggest differences.
And when we moved in,
they wanted to streamline the staircase
and create this beautiful, solid architectural piece.
Why don't you come on in and see the rest of the house?
I just wanted to make sure that the house was,
regardless of all of the beautiful materials
and everything that we were gonna use in the house
and the colors, that it was also kid-friendly
and trying to use as many natural materials as possible.
This is our more formal sitting area, living room.
When Santa comes, he puts the presents right here.
And we put the tree right here where the light is.
And then the tree was right there.
So stockings here.
We actually built this fireplace for stockings.
I spend a lot of time on Pinterest.
I have many Pinterest boards
and I really wanted there to be like an old world
kind of French vibe mixed with like a modern French apartment
and if you just like slam that together,
what would you get?
We definitely still have slipcovers.
There's a chic way to do slipcovers
and Clements has figured out how to do that.
Cause you never know with three kids.
Right girls?
Yeah.
Oh, I remember when you spilled all those little beads.
The only thing we took from the other house was our family
and not just the family that you see here,
but the family on our wall.
Come check it out.
My husband's African-American and white
and I'm Mexican and white.
So this wall is just a combination of grandparents,
great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents,
great aunties and uncles and cousins.
We just think that it's important for our kids
to see themselves and see where they came from.
That's your Alma.
Alma is a baby and this is Papa when he was growing up.
Yep.
Who is those two?
I don't know, it's your dad's family.
When we moved in, there was lots of crown molding
and molding around all of the doorways.
We basically just streamlined everything
and pulled all of that out,
which gave us a lot more height in the rooms.
And this used to be a giant fireplace.
But for us, the best part of the house
is the view in the yard
and being able to watch the kids play.
So we just opened it right up
and then we got a big, giant, cozy couch.
We pretty much live on this couch all weekend
and stay in our pajamas.
Yeah, we sometimes sleep on the couch.
I've been dreaming about this kitchen
probably my whole life because I do love to cook.
And so I've spent a lot of time, again, on Pinterest
and a lot of Art Digest pins that I've done.
I love natural materials.
I love butcher block islands.
Just putting together my dream of what would be the kitchen
and this is it.
My favorite part is when you get to actually eat the food.
When you get to actually eat the food?
Yeah.
The breakfast nook is another one of my childhood fantasies
to be able to have a breakfast nook.
It's really a breakfast, lunch, and dinner nook
because we eat here all the time.
This is some of the candy that we got from Christmas
in our stockings.
And lots of marshmallows.
Do you guys ask or do you just get into it?
No, we don't ask.
So rude.
So let's go outside.
This is probably the best part of the house,
don't you think, girls?
Yeah, no.
No.
My favorite part's my room.
I love seeing you guys play in the yard.
This was not here when we bought the house
and I always wanted to have an indoor-outdoor vibe
and also outdoor dining is so nice in the summer.
It's nice for barbecues and we spend so much time
with family and friends on the weekends.
This table is really cool because it can expand
and it's super modern and the combination
of this really modern, cool piece
with old, vintage French chairs
and they're mismatched, which is my vibe.
Again, because I like old things
and I like nostalgic things,
the play set actually came from one of our best friends
and they had it for their kids for like 10 years
and they said that their kids grew out of it
and if we wanted it, and I was like,
oh, that would be so sweet to have little Hazy
on the same swing set as my friend's kids.
I love a hand-me-down.
Oh.
Do you wanna run?
Good job.
He's just learning to walk.
Good job.
Hands up, buddy.
So this is our dining room.
It's nice because we have this big wooden table.
We like to have big family dinners
and we have these sideboards I got.
They're vintage and then we just painted them.
People can serve themselves buffet style.
These chairs are cool.
They fold up like that so you can store them
and then if you wanna switch out the slipcovers,
you can always do that.
And it's easy to put back on.
And it is easy to put back on and totally washable.
This is another thing that I probably over-pinned
on Pinterest was getting a dope laundry room.
We're always doing laundry,
so that's what happens when you have three kids.
So although it's totally functional in here,
it's still pretty.
As you can see, I make cleaning products
and so it's nice because they're always available
and easy to get to.
I'm big on organization.
It's like a simple basket for kids' laundry.
Just putting sweet little tags.
That little touch just kind of elevates it.
Two washers and two dryers.
Oh, it's a whole situation.
So this is Havy's room.
Haven, do you wanna give him a tour?
I'm Haven and this is my room.
What's your favorite part about your room?
Jumping on the bed.
No, I never jump on my bed.
Yeah, right.
No, I don't.
Okay.
I jumped on my old bed.
This is the least thing you would let me do.
It's true.
This is my room.
I really like it because I get privacy in it.
Not all the time.
This is my bed.
I have to make it every morning
even though sometimes I don't.
This is my fairy wall.
When we were still building the house
and we were starting to build my room,
I said I wanted fairy lights so this part was my idea.
This is a balcony and I sometimes sit out here
and read when I'm with my friends.
This is a swing that I swing out on here
and it's really fun to swing on.
Haze, do you wanna show them your room?
Let's go to your room.
This is Hazy's room.
Do you wanna show them all of your stuff over here?
These are your friends, your rocking sheep friends
and they have cool hair.
Is that some of your toys?
What I love about having cubbies
and having things that are accessible
is kind of like freedom in his play
and I learn that with the girls.
They just learn so much more quickly when they feel safe
and they can kind of do things at their own will.
But the one thing that I learned about,
I think after having three kids,
is the changing table can get a little stinky
and it also isn't the cutest thing in the world
so I put it in the bathroom.
So now we are going into the master bedroom.
My husband was really into having a TV in our bedroom.
I was really not down with that.
Our compromise was I found an easel
that you can put a TV on
and we can move it out of the bedroom
and it's really not supposed to be here
except for when I'm traveling
but somehow he's managed to keep it here
for a couple months.
I think because we have such stressful,
we have such stressful and chaotic lives.
My husband is an entrepreneur.
I'm an entrepreneur.
I'm also an actress.
We have three kids.
I think the more kind of like neutral colors
that are from nature,
you'll see that a lot throughout the house.
It just allows us to just kind of settle into home
and to be present with each other.
This room had a giant fireplace right here
and we removed the fireplace
so that we can just see the mountains.
It's just such a pretty view.
And you can still see the backyard from here.
Yeah, it's super chill and quiet.
I don't get a lot of quiet moments
but when I do, this is definitely the space
where I like to chill out.
You definitely don't get quiet moments from us
because we always call you or text you
or you're just home and we annoy you.
I mean, you know, it's just being mom.
Okay, so here's the master bathroom.
We spend a lot of time in here.
I spend a lot of time in here.
The girls like to take showers with me.
My husband always complained
that the reason why he didn't like taking showers
was because he said I stole all the water.
So now he has his side.
I have my side.
No more stealing water.
And then I always get cold when I come out of the bathtub.
So we put the bathtub inside of the shower.
And so that way it's nice and cozy and warm.
You wanna get out of the bath, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
Bye, AD.
Thank you for coming.
I gotta go make dinner.
So you gotta get out of here.
Get out!
