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You’re going to have to fight the image in your head of Gwyneth Paltrow’s home having a door shaped like a giant vagina.

Or is that just me?

Sure, her Montecito (Santa Barbara) home that she shares with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk, has many elements designed to nurture the mind, body, and soul.

But it’s not anything like we see in her Goop Labs, unfortunately, or fortunately, whichever way you want to see it.

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams, the firm that helped design Paltrow’s Goop pop-up shop and permanent boutique, also lent a hand with this home.

But they’ve gone with something far more discreet, notes Architectural Digest.

Behold, not a single pink thing:

Instead of a crystal-powered sweat lodge, she has a sybaritic home spa, which is “like an ancient bathhouse unexpectedly sheathed in these beautiful pale-green tiles with an Arts and Crafts vibe,” according to Standefer:

The wellness by design in the house is nuanced and understated, reflecting on Paltrow’s careful consideration of movement and mood:

“The strength of the house is in the subtleties of light and space,” Paltrow says. “We spent a lot of time assessing family patterns, how we really live, what makes us most comfortable. The focus was on the experience, the emotion.”

Paltrow found the land on her “favourite pornography app,” Redfin, which was teeming with wild animals and swarms of bugs.

Still, she said she fell in love with the spot and its views:

“That was chapter one of a long and arduous journey,” she notes wryly, citing the many technical complexities, unforeseen setbacks, and existential quandaries that inevitably arise in the process of home building.

But she persisted and eventually created what she describes as “a Parisian apartment set within an old European barn, something with high ceilings, flooded with light, a place that feels generous yet manageable at the same time”:

There’s even a Jim Zivic hammock for Ralph Pucci and an Alexander Díaz Andersson lounge chair gracing the living room:

Paltrow’s commitment to environmentalism is also reflected in the home, through a solar energy power system and a grey-water system.

The home finds harmony in understated colours, organic textures, and strong, simple forms:

“Gwyneth was more interested in substance than style per se. Yes, it had to be pretty, but she was most concerned with things like mood and movement,” [Brigette Romanek, also a AD100 designer] observes.

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[source:architecturaldigest]