Color outside the lines
Set behind gates in the Beverly Hills Post Office area, the multilevel house makes the most of its unbridled interior with Fleetwood doors and walls of windows that blend indoor-outdoor space. Design appointments such as artistic ironwork, modern fixtures and expressive wallpaper give a sense of creative spirit.

Breakup with a longtime live-in
Tucked behind walls and gates, the 2.33-acre estate comprises a four-bedroom main house, a twostory guesthouse, a gym and a guardhouse. Lush gardens and palm trees fill the grounds, which include an amphitheater, terrace patios and an Italian stonerimmed swimming pool.

Too wealthy to worry about cool
The luxurious Beverly Hills Hotel was built on the site of the pool of the Tongva, and the town’s nascent glamour industry received another boost when Hollywood “It” couple Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built their famed home, Pickfair, nearby..

More reveals are up her sleeve
Ihad closet manufacturers come in, and they were bidding from $10,000 to $16,000 to do my closet. I built my entire closet with avanity — I just took two [Ikea] file cabinets and a desktop to make my vanity desk area, all outfitted with an Ikea closet system — for less than $2,000.

Flair finds a place to park
There wasn’t anything particularly inviting to the eye. It was a de facto pool house and held most of our storage. Things just started to spill out, the pingpong table was covered with clothes and boxes, the fake Christmas tree was sitting in front of a bookshelf.