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"There is nothing timid about Emmy Rossum. The 21-year-old performer has a powerful, pitch-perfect voice and an on-screen presence to match. (You know her from Phantom of the Opera and Poseidon.) So it makes sense that this glamorous young star&amp;amp;#8217;s first house is a bold, pink-stucco gem that clings dramatically to the famed hills of Los Angeles high above Sunset Boulevard. &amp;amp;#8220;I came out to L.A. to make a record,&amp;amp;#8221; says the New York native of her first album, Inside Out, slated to be released October 23. &amp;amp;#8220;I needed a place where I could be creative and write&amp;amp;#8212;somewhere that wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t feel like a transient hotel room.&amp;amp;#8221; Rossum immediately fell in love with the three-bedroom Beverly Hills house. &amp;amp;#8220;It&amp;amp;#8217;s so private. I sing and it&amp;amp;#8217;s loud. The land behind the house is a nature preserve. Up here, I know I won&amp;amp;#8217;t bother the neighbors.&amp;amp;#8221; Rossum is the first to acknowledge how lucky she is to be able to buy such a grown-up retreat at an age when most women consider a new bath mat a real estate investment. But even so, she was daunted by the challenge of decorating the place. In fact, for months she&amp;amp;#8217;d been living in the home exactly as she bought it (completely furnished in a style best described as &amp;amp;#8220;early-nineties grandma&amp;amp;#8221;). Enter Glamour and L.A.-based designer Katie Fine. Rossum sat down with Fine to create a game plan for her dream house&amp;amp;#8212;she wanted the place to be streamlined and modern in a black, white and gray palette, spiked with sexy red accents&amp;amp;#8212;and the two got to work. &amp;amp;#8220;The whole process of decorating should be about creating a space where you feel safe and happy,&amp;amp;#8221; says Rossum. For her that meant a nondistracting interior where she could work but also a place to spread out and entertain friends &amp;amp;#8220;far away from the circus down the hill that is Hollywood,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. &amp;amp;#8220;Emmy wanted the house to feel both elegant and young,&amp;amp;#8221; says Fine. &amp;amp;#8220;So we found a way to mix in sophisticated elements&amp;amp;#8212;a low, sleek couch, silver frames and candlesticks&amp;amp;#8212;with some more eclectic pieces, like the funky red chairs.&amp;amp;#8221; They also tore out the cream bedroom carpeting, which was contributing to the old-lady effect, and replaced it with an airy white-maple surface; painted the walls a clean white; and removed an ornate and fussy mantelpiece. The end result represents both sides of Emmy&amp;amp;#8212;the statuesque actress who hits the red carpet in a couture gown, and the budding pop star whose prized possession is a burgundy Gibson guitar. &amp;amp;#8220;Outside, it feels very old Hollywood to me&amp;amp;#8212;pink and green like the Beverly Hills Hotel,&amp;amp;#8221; Rossum says. &amp;amp;#8220;But inside it&amp;amp;#8217;s young, very soft, modern and comfortable. And I love it. I love all of it!&amp;amp;#8221;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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