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       Step inside Emma Roberts’ sumptuous LA home
       
       By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
       
       Updated: 
       
       8:00 AM EDT, Tue April 16, 2024
       
       Source: CNN
       
       While many celebrity homes look less than lived-in, ranging from
       spotless minimal to ostentatiously palatial, actor Emma Roberts’
       Hollywood Hills home is made for curling up with a good book — or
       several — with warm tones, comfortable couches, and antique
       curiosities in each room (also, a lagoon-style pool in the backyard for
       summer reads).
       
       Roberts, an actor who has become a mainstay of rom coms and campy
       horror — the latter, most recently with recurring roles in the
       anthology series “American Horror Story” — bought the home, which
       she shares with her three-year-old son Rhodes, in 2022 and hired the
       design firm Pierce & Ward to overhaul its interiors. In the , she
       reveals the results of that makeover.
       
       For Roberts, having a space that feels like home is a particular
       priority, she explained, as she moved often as a child. So when she saw
       the property listed as a rental on Instagram (it has been as a former
       residence of Minnie Driver), she inquired if she could purchase it
       instead.
       
       “I think I lived in 10 houses by the time I was 15 — so for me now,
       having a son, I wanted a place that felt really ours.” she told AD.
       “I have a picture of the day we moved in… I just remember feeling
       like we are exactly where we need to be.”
       
       The designers, Louisa Pierce and Emily Ward, with whom Roberts had
       previously worked, are known for down-to-earth spaces that mix
       bohemian, mid-century modern and rustic styles. Their clients have
       included Roberts’ “Madame Web” co-star Dakota Johnson as well as
       Kate Hudson and Leonardo DiCaprio.
       
       “We want a house to look like it’s been there for 50 years,”
       Pierce told AD in the cover story. “We never want a home to look
       new.”
       
       In that spirit, much of Roberts’ furniture, art and decor is
       repurposed or reupholstered. In the living room, beneath a disco
       ball-like globe light, paperbacks are enclosed in living room cabinets
       while rarer books are openly displayed. Framed photographs of Debbie
       Harry and Joni Mitchell rest on wooden cabinets; elsewhere, one of
       Roberts’ most treasured artworks — a Julian Wasser portrait of Joan
       Didion in front of a Corvette — hangs on the wall.
       
       Though many pieces are courtesy of design studios or antique finds,
       Pierce and Ward don’t look down on more accessible commercial brands.
       Roberts recalled when she asked if her new kitchen island was
       custom-made, they laughed and said it was from Urban Outfitters.
       
       As for a room for Rhodes, who is starting his own book collection,
       Roberts opted for a soothing wallpaper scene of flying ducks on the
       ceiling, above a lush forest-themed upholstered bed.
       
       “I remember as a kid, whatever’s on your wall and your ceiling is
       seared into your brain for the rest of your life,” Roberts explained.
       “So I wanted to make it extra cozy and fun, but not too
       overwhelming.”
       
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