Jennifer Garner opened up her attractive Los Angeles house for an Architectural Digest tour and it didn’t disappoint. From a Harry Potter-themed workplace for her son to an unofficial slumber occasion room, Garner’s house each centered on her youngsters whereas concurrently showcasing beautiful design.
Garner, who constructed her house with designers Steve and Brooke Giannetti, walked followers by the modest mansion.
“I’m such a non-public particular person about my house and right here I’ve simply taken you thru your entire home, and actually it’s for a few causes,” the actor mentioned within the Architectural Digest video.
“I’ve by no means constructed something all on my own earlier than, and I’m so pleased with it. I’m crammed with gratitude each time I stroll into my home, that I get to reside right here, that I’m so fortunate to have my children right here. It’s not like me, and but I’m so completely happy to have shared it with you.”
Garner shares her three children — Violet, 18, and Seraphina “Fin,” 15, and son Samuel, 12 — with ex-husband Ben Affleck. All through the tour, she mentions her children’ actions within the house.
Whereas showcasing the lounge space — which featured a whole again wall of huge sliding glass doorways that open to create an indoor-outdoor house — Garner jokes that typically she has to look away when damp teenagers come inside from the pool.
“The one downside is, if my children are having their class pool occasion right here or one thing, it’s very laborious to maintain moist children out of the home,” she jokes. “I’ve to essentially simply stand guard and say, ‘Get away.’ I’ll look over, and there shall be two moist youngsters taking part in the piano, and I’m identical to, ‘OK, don’t look, don’t look.'”
Garner provides that she’s “so completely happy” together with her cozy house, which she mentioned makes you “really feel like (you are) inside a treehouse.”
“You know the way you simply think about it, after which some day you’ve an ideal second the place it really comes true? That may be a, like, (chef’s kiss) sort of second,” she says.
She confirmed off a number of gathering areas inside the house, together with a stunning blue library/TV room, a research space with a large fish tank and studying nook in addition to a slumber occasion room with a number of bunk beds.
Garner additionally revealed her son’s Harry Potter-themed “workplace,” which, fittingly, is a small room below the staircase. Noting Garner and her children are enormous followers of the sequence — which opens on an 11-year-old Potter who lives in “a cabinet below the steps” — they determined to make the room equally magical.
Painted a darkish blue with darks and different fantastical components, Garner says the room is supposed to be a “little spot for him to return in and dream.”
“Principally he hides from me and eats sweet however I can’t blame him,” she jokes. “I’d do the identical factor.”