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"Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest\nThe Actors at Home in Los Angeles\nArchitect Michael B. Lehrer has overseen the renovations of the Spanish Colonial Revival structure.\n\"It now feels young and open,\" Jan McFarland Cox says of the 1920s house in Los Angeles she designed for Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband, Christopher Guest.\n\"We wanted to keep the furniture in the living room, and throughout, to a minimum to let the handsome architecture speak for itself,\" explains Cox. \"There's lots of white in this large space; we made the floors and beams darker to provide a nice contrast.\" George Smith striped chair fabric.\n\"The dining room reflects today's more casual lifestyle,\" Cox points out. \"Its light is wonderful.\" The English harp once belonged to Guest's grandmother. Circa 1844 George Catlin lithographs hang on the walls.\nShojilike doors conceal the pantry. Tiffany's crystal.\nThe kitchen/family area \"used to be a tiny kitchen, a tiny breakfast room and a weird little guest room,\" recalls Curtis. The banquette's pullout drawers, which double as stools, were her idea. Tiffany's glassware. Brunschwig &amp;amp; Fils banquette fabric. Viking range; Sub-Zero refrigerator.\n\"When Jamie and I were discussing what to do interiorwise, we stood in the master bedroom and agreed it was a great room that barely needed any alterations,\" says Cox, who designed the television table. \"It's comfortable and pleasant, with views across the canyon to the sea.\"\n\"The hall niche with a small window is original to the layout; it's very typical of '20s architecture,\" notes Cox. The watercolor illustrations, by Laura Cornell, are from Curtis's children's book Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born.\nFrench doors in the kitchen swing out to a long wood deck, an addition built onto the north fa\u00E7ade. \"The vintage tile-topped wrought iron table was here when they bought the house,\" says Cox. \"Jamie fell in love with it and asked that it be included in the sale.\"\n\"Since we've lived in this place, we've done every inch of the landscape and every inch of the hardscape as well as the interiors,\" says Curtis, who collaborated on the grounds and the new pool with Mia Lehrer. Guest was first attracted to the residence because of its parklike setting.\n\"That I get to raise my kids nearish the ocean, in a home not dissimilar to the one I grew up in, surrounded by eucalyptus trees and big dogs and a pool\u2014an almost mirror environment of my childhood\u2014is something I'm truly grateful for,\" says Curtis. Herm\u00E8s towels."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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