We love peeking into other people's homes so figured we'd start with Gwyneth Paltrow.
See the photo gallery.
The photos of Paltrow and musician husband, Chris Martin's family home in the Hamptons were taken by Eric Cahan for House & Garden magazine's November 2007 edition.
According to the NY Post's Braden Keil, Paltrow and Martin bought the newly built, 7000sq-ft, five-bedroom, seven and a half-bath summer home at 35 Old Montauk Highway, Amagansett, in Long Island's East End for $5.4 million in 2006 after negotiating the price down from $6.5 million.
It features nanny's quarters, ocean views and a large pool.
Mama from The Real Estalker provides some history and amusing commentary about Paltrow's Hamptons and London pads.
She also has an article about Martin and Paltrow's previous property at 13 Harrison Street, Tribeca, New York. Renovated in the late 1990s by architect Annabelle Selldorf, the Harrison Street property has an open loft style.
They originally paid $7.95 million for three and a half floors in the small, two-unit building in 2005, and sold it for $13.65 million a couple of years later.
The unit comprised six bedrooms, four and a half baths, a skylit living room, a gourmet kitchen, an exercise studio, 1600sq feet of landscaped terraces, an irrigated rooftop garden, a separate planted terrace off the family room, an elevator, several wood-burning fireplaces, a high-tech security system and three laundry rooms.
Previously, Paltrow had a $6.75 million townhouse at 278 West Fourth Street in New York’s Greenwich Village.
They moved to a penthouse at the River Lofts building on Washington, paying just over $5 million, according to Berg Properties.
Features of the apartment - in the warehouse building at 424 Washington - include three and a half baths, a library, a gallery, a study, a fireplace, 3892sq feet of indoor space, and 587sq feet of outdoor space on two decks.
The other part of the River Lofts development is at 92 Laight Street.
Photo: Exterior of River Lofts on Washington Street
Some photos below, thanks to the designers, Roman and Williams, as well as Curbed.com and TheHappyHomeBlog.
Thanks to Belinda from TheHappyHome for doing the groundwork on this. It has since been picked up by Mama at the RealEstalker too. Not surprisingly, Roman and Williams have now removed the blog post of the home of "the actress, her musician husband and their children" but it's still worth checking out their site and accompanying blogs for all the other lovely home inspiration.
Also, a couple of shots of Gwyneth in her kitchen doing publicity of her new cookbook (photos by Mario Testino) in Vogue August 2010.
River Lofts on Washington, Tribeca:
Hamptons house:
Photos by Eric Cahan for House & Garden
The yoga and pilates studio
The renovated-especially-for-Gwyneth Nashville apartment was a temporary 2-month home for her whilst making a film. Sounds like a lot of trouble to us - surely they have luxe home rentals, hotels or serviced apartments readily available in Nashville??
Over 10 days, producer/photo stylist Annette Joseph (from Atlanta, Georgia) transformed a two bedroom loft at "The Icon" building in the up-and-coming "Gulch" area of Nashville.
Gwyneth's own Goop has the scoop, including behind the scenes pix and information about individual items (where to find and how much).
Nashville apartment:
For those who are really addicted to Paltrow, you may be interested to learn that her mother, Blythe Danner, sold the family home (where Paltrow grew up) in 2007. It was at 304 21st Street in Santa Monica, also known as 2020 Georgina Avenue.
Bruce Paltrow (who died in 2002) and Danner bought the house, which is on a double lot on a corner, in 1976. In 1999, they also bought the 3-bedroom, 2468sq-foot house next door at 316 21st Street.
Danner has moved to New York and bought a new $3.125m 17th-floor, 3-bed, 3-bath unit in the prestigious co-op building at One Fifth Avenue, overlooking Washington Square Park.
Photo: One Fifth Avenue
It’s nine floors above the eighth-floor, two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath unit in the building that Danner previously owned (it sold for $1.8 million in August 2006) and had been home to Gwyneth and then-fiance Brad Pitt.
If One Fifth Avenue sounds familiar, it might be because it is also the name of the Candace Bushnell book (of "Sex and the City" fame). Check out the book, "One Fifth Avenue"
on Amazon.
Real estate agent Ari LeFauve gives a quick overview of the historic Art Deco building here.
In 2005, Danner also sold properties at 193 Mead Street and 195 Mead Street in Waccabuc, New York, in Westchester County near Lake Waccabuc, for $2.4 million and $3.6 million respectively.
More links to check out: goop.com, hookedonhouses.net, casasugar.com, habituallychic.blogspot.com, realestalker.blogspot.com, and instyle.co.uk
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