Name: ニーナ・ドブレフ、スペイン建築をリフォームした理想のマイホーム。| Open Door | VOGUE JAPAN
Uploaded: 2021-12-02T18:10:06.000Z
Duration: 16 min 53 s
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well hello A D I'm nina welcome to my home.

Hey Maverick say hi to everyone at home watching this is my puppy Maverick and this is my spanish style home.

So it was really important to me because the houses from the 1920s, I wanted to pay respect to the original architecture and Spanish-style influence and even though we were redoing certain things I wanted to use materials that were organic and felt like they could have belonged to the home before while still refreshing and giving the house a facelift.

So I've had this home for about five years and the house used to actually be like a yellowy mustard color, which was very typical for a lot of spanish style homes.

But I'd always wanted to paint it white and for the first time I found myself having no excuse and my boyfriend, I painted the whole exterior of the house ourselves and it took forever.

Let's just say on day one or two, we were really excited.

And then by day three or four and then into the first month I was like, what have I gotten myself into?

The fireplace had like a detail underneath here and I wanted to preserve the detail but I really wanted the fireplace to be a statement and stick out and kind of contrast everything else because everything else in the whole house for the most part is light and airy and there's lots of fabrics with linens and the carpets and everything is just has like a light airiness to it.

But I wanted there to be bold statements that also contrasted the lightness so that there's a lot of texture and feeling and sort of moodiness as well.

This photograph is really near and dear to my heart because right before the pandemic I went, I was shooting a movie in South Africa and I was on safari and I was taking, we saw these times these baby little Simba's Little lions.

So we saw these Simba's, I was taking photos on my iphone thinking I got the best shot ever.

I thought it was so cool and I was so happy.

And then I looked over to my right and there's a professional photographer took the exact same photo from the same vantage point and let's just say his picture was a lot more beautiful and ross cooper is the photographer and a dear friend now.

And so he sent me a print and I blew it up and made it my centerpiece when I first bought the home, there was a wall that defied that divided the dining room space from the kitchen.

But I really, really, really wanted to have an open concept space.

So last year we knocked down the wall that used to actually be right here.

It was a huge wall who knocked it down and I really wanted to have an island space that I can entertain it.

I love cooking, I love sharing a glass of wine and so I want to be able to cook while still participating in the conversation with my friends.

My favorite thing to do is go to one of my cookbooks, close my eyes open it and sort of just like land on a page and then whatever it is, I have to make it, it's more challenging that way and it's more fun when it turns out well, but it doesn't turn out well, you know, just Postmates or Uber eats something.

So we got these reclaimed terracotta tiles from europe that are all unique.

Some have a lot of imperfections which I kind of love, like it's been lived in and it feels it feels european and I'm from europe.

I wanted to also bring in my heritage a little bit the backsplash.

So I wanted to mix the materials again and get something that looks like a subway tile.

They don't lay perfectly flat on each other.

There's edges and it feels textured and, and yummy against this really smooth butcher block.

So the floor is being terracotta and being reclaimed and then having the butcher block counters on one side and then having this slab and I wanted to be able to have something sturdy and yet have something that is aesthetically beautiful.

So we went with a dolomite, It's very textured, it's not smooth, it's not super polished, it's got a home to finish on top so that allows for it to feel like yummy and kind of, I don't know, sometimes I like to just play on it.

It feels kind of like cry because it stays very cold.

I went with green cabinets, I think I saw it on instagram somewhere.

There was this beautiful french kitchen in the south of France that was featured somewhere and I just became obsessed.

All the hardware from the faucet to the knobs even which are a little bit more modern.

They run lacquered so with time they will age and get more beautiful even when we're gone, these guys will just get more and more beautiful with time.

I'm going to show you my favorite part of the kitchen.

It's the tiniest little thing, but to me it makes me really feel like an adult, like a passage of some sort introducing the spice rack, yep.

This stove is also really special, it's called and it is an italian stove that we had shipped in from Italy, they're manufactured there.

And what I loved about it is that it's a new stove, it's new construction stove, but it feels vintage, like it feels all the details with the brass and all the knobs, like it has an aesthetic look that it's an art piece in itself in the kitchen and it adds value without distracting too much, which I love when we knocked the wall down, there had to be some sort of a hood for the range and I didn't want to compromise the space because the whole point was to open up the space and be able to see everyone in the hood would have been down to about here, probably would have come down.

So we did a lot of research and we found this company called Zephyr out of Canada and I'm Canadian.

So it was important to me to support Canadian brands and it's flush to the wall, but it pulls up all the, all the smells and all the fumes that come up when you're cooking and it doesn't obscure the view, which is really important to me.

It was such a big, great fine for me because it's very high tech.

If you can notice right here, there's a little button on the floor that says door open, hold on, hold on.

You have all the groceries, you just came it, it'll knock you all the way it works every other time boom.

I love waking up in the morning and having breakfast right here, the sunlight comes in, it's so pretty and you just kind of lounge, whether you're reading the newspaper, which I've never done.

So I shouldn't say, but it's a great little space and there's a lot of room.

I used to have a nook here before, but it was small and a much smaller table.

So when we did the renovation, I wanted to add a second bench, get more pillows, get a bigger table and now I can sit about 10 people.

Whereas before it was probably about four or five.

So this sculptural piece is actually a plant, but it looks like a piece of art.

It's called Ikebana and one of my friends, Mila, comes in and makes them for me every now and then.

They're really, really, really beautiful and add a centerpiece to a table that speaks for itself so that you don't have to have all the clutter.

It's, it is everything you need and the only thing you need on table, in my opinion.

Yeah, I opted to go for these chairs, which were actually one of my friends chairs that I've reclaimed and I stole number of our mother paid for them and we mixed it with the leather tops and also the oak bench over here that matches those chairs over there.

So we had a lot of wood influence and organic materials.

I wanted the table to look good from all angles.

This is a custom piece that we had built from solid oak that is very finished and very detailed with around edges and it's an indoor outdoor space that's really important to me.

So having the flow of air, seeing the table from outside in the courtyard area and every other angle, even the rounded legs on the table, everything was like very, very, very detailed and beautiful.

And I wanted it to be aesthetically pleasing from any angle no matter where you are in the house.

And then another thing about this room is the crown molding, that is the original from 1929.

Come on back so you can see the rest of the house.

Yeah, so this guest bedroom is kind of like the rest of the home.

I wanted it to be inviting and feel welcoming and have someone feel like they were in their own home.

So we put a lot of time and effort into getting fun pillows and having a wonderful ambience with open windows and just kind of making it homemade and fresh As you can hear.

All the floors are very creaky, it's squeaking a lot and that's mainly because all the wood floors in the home are also original from the 1920s and you know, it's good for when someone tries to break in because then I can hear them and I grabbed my bat very helpful for that.

But someday when I have kids, they're really gonna hate it because they won't be able to get a sneak out of the house of easily like I did when I was growing up.

Light airy and I wanted it to feel very inviting.

And in a way that I have this longhorn that I actually got on a road trip a couple years back, I fell in love with it.

And it's been the centerpiece of my bed for a really long time.

It feels like a Gerald because of the jade.

So it is a bit of a flight risk to hang above your bed.