Sarah Paulson did not uncover her expertise for creating properties with what inside designer Amy Kehoe calls “refined whimsy” till she was in her 40s. As a former New Yorker and actress who has spent a lot of her grownup life on set, shopping for and furnishing a home was not on her lengthy to-do checklist. “It felt like an excessive amount of duty. Solely adults did that, not me,” says the Emmy Award-winning actress, who stars within the upcoming horror thriller Mud. “I’ve at all times needed that life in Manhattan, an condominium with a doorman, for those who have been fortunate. Proudly owning a home by no means had that attract.”
Just a few components modified her thoughts. The primary is that Paulson is now an Angeleno and found she was one of many remnants in her good friend group who hadn’t taken the plunge into actual property. Second, she discovered the magnetic pull of Nickey Kehoe, an elegantly understated housewares retailer owned by Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe, too robust to withstand. “I would stroll into that retailer and assume, Can I transfer in?” she says. “Once I lastly purchased a home, I emailed Amy. As soon as I began working together with her, I assumed, ‘Nicely, you’ll be able to overlook it. Each time I purchase one thing, even a automobile, you do the inside.’ ”
It was a pleasing shock for Paulson to find how a lot she loved sorting cloth swatches and 1stdibs lists with Kehoe. It is the closest factor to a pastime she’s ever had. “I used to be at all times so busy with work. Sleeping was my pastime. Or take a bathe,” she laughs.
When her principal residence was completed, Paulson went again for extra. Almost a yr into the pandemic, she purchased a 50-square-foot Malibu trailer after a life-changing go to to an in depth good friend’s home. “It was January and the tide was to this point out that the seashore felt like a lunar panorama. The cliffs and the water and the sunshine have been so stunning, and my canine went loopy,” she recollects. “The ocean by no means known as me. I am the one who’s afraid there is a shark in my bathtub. However the seashore was stunning. How did I reside right here for therefore a few years and never perceive the fantastic thing about the shoreline?”
