Hilary Duff’s Beverly Hills home shows how a polished renovation can make room for the everyday: color and carefully chosen furniture sit alongside toys, pets and signs of use. In Architectural Digest’s 2020 home tour, Duff described choosing pieces she expected to love and reuse, while accepting that her children would climb on them and that a well-used home would not stay pristine.
A renovation shaped by changing family needs
Architectural Digest described Duff’s house in Beverly Hills as a 5,260-square-foot Georgian-style home in a private, hedged setting with a mountain backdrop. In the September 2020 feature, Duff said that sense of privacy and welcome helped draw her to the property.
The home had been remodeled twice after its initial renovation. For the most recent work documented by AD, Duff worked with David Ko of Maison Ko and Shannon Wollack and Brittany Zwickl of Studio Life/Style. The project retained some structural bones while opening and brightening living areas. It also moved away from the former buttery-yellow exterior and elaborate 1980s-style floors.
For Duff, the renovation reflected changes in her life and taste, rather than a fixed decorating formula. She wanted to move away from dark, tonal choices, lighten the furniture and bring more personality into the rooms. She described painting the front door blush: “I painted my front door this beautiful blush color.”
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Color is one of the home’s most visible design choices, but the details were tailored to the architecture. Duff’s foyer drew on an image she had saved on Pinterest. On the stairs, rugs from Woven in West Hollywood were cut and sewn together into a single arrangement, creating a custom treatment rather than relying on a standard runner.
That distinction matters when adapting the idea to another house. A colorful area rug can bring energy into a room, but the stair installation shown in the tour was custom-made; a ready-made rug is not necessarily suitable for stairs. A builder or flooring professional can help assess the shape, attachment and wear requirements of a stair covering before installation.
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Other named details in the 2020 AD feature included a custom sofa by Bespoke Furniture, a Needlegrass rug from DISC for Marc Phillips, Kelly Wearstler Laurel Lounge chairs, Popham Design Field Tile from Ann Sacks, Benjamin Moore Lucerne AF-530 paint and an Apparatus Studio brass Twig 5 light. These identify elements of the documented project, not a guarantee that the same products are currently available.
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The family-life principle behind the decorating is clearest in Duff’s approach to furniture. She said she invests in pieces she expects to love and reuse, even though her children climb on them and the household is hard on its furnishings. She described the result this way: “Now, it feels like our family’s home.”
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That outlook offers a useful decision framework for a family renovation: consider how a piece will serve the household over time, not only how it looks on installation day. Long-term furniture may be worth choosing when it suits the room and the family expects to keep it; in a high-traffic area where damage or replacement is more likely, ease of care may matter more. Duff’s account is a personal choice, not a universal rule that every household should invest in the same way.
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Architectural Digest’s 2020 video tour showed family photographs, children’s toys and pets among the home’s more styled furnishings. A formal living room also served as a play and hiding space. The tour included a vintage credenza with visible wear, which Duff discussed as part of living in the house: “But we live in this house and we’re hard on this house. And I think that’s what makes it feel like such a home.”
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That is not a claim that all finishes should be left unprotected. It is Duff’s perspective on a treasured object: signs of use do not automatically make it less meaningful. For homeowners planning a renovation, the practical question is which rooms and surfaces need to tolerate everyday activity, and where a more delicate finish can be protected or reserved for lighter use.
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The same tour showed the outdoor spaces as part of the family home, including a chicken coop, trampoline, water slide, tree house and herb garden. These are details documented in 2020, not confirmation of what the property looks like now. Together with the indoor play space, they illustrate how a home’s design can accommodate both a finished look and activities that make it useful to the people who live there.
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What homeowners can take from the project
- Start with how the household lives. Duff’s account connects her renovation choices to family needs and changing tastes, rather than treating rooms as display spaces.
- Use color deliberately. A blush entry door or a vivid stair treatment can add personality without requiring every surface to be bold.
- Plan bespoke details as bespoke work. The stair rugs were cut and sewn for the space; their look should not be mistaken for a standard, off-the-shelf installation.
- Choose finishes and furniture with their use in mind. Decide where durability, easy care, longevity or a more delicate appearance matters most to your household.
- Allow rooms to do more than one job. The formal living room’s role as a play and hiding space shows that comfort and function need not be confined to a separate family room.
These takeaways are practical questions to bring to a renovation plan, not claims that one particular color, material or furnishing will work in every home.
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