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Celebrity Homes: A Look Inside The Home of Actress Frieda Pinto

Indian actress Frieda Pinto is best known for her career on the big screen and especially her role in eight-time Oscar-winning drama, Slumdog Millionaire. Her LA home, which she shares with her husband Cory Tran, is a breath of fresh air, beautifully designed by designer and Netflix star, Bobby Berk.

Freida and Cory approached Bobby Berk to help them redesign their new home in LA. Architectural Digest described the home (prior to the makeover) as a low-slung, 1950s style California bungalow, replete with pink-tile bathroom floors, ample garden space, and airy, sun-blanched rooms.

Working with friends

The couple wanted Bobby to renovate and design it but Bobby has a hesitance to work with close friends. He told the couple: ‘I love you too much to design your home.’ In essence, he didn’t want things to get messy and the project to get in the way of their friendship. However, Frieda and Cory were most convinced that Bobby was the right fit for the job. In an interview, they explained, “But we were so convinced that he had the right taste for everything we envisioned for this house, which we had been searching for so long—it has the best bones, the best energy, and belonged to the loveliest couple before us—that we decided we just had to convince him to make an exception and break his rule.”

Eventually, the couple wore him down and Bobby agreed to spearhead the design and concept planning. He also really wanted to impress Frieda and so, was forced to step out of his comfort zone. Admittedly, Frieda is a lover of colour and it makes her happy. Bobby needed to break the mould and embrace colour if he was to impress the actress.

Old World Charm

“She grew up India in these more traditional, beautiful homes, and she wanted to bring in that element from her childhood, but sort of modernize it.”

Bobby took note of this and sought to recreate the old world charms of the homes she grew up in. He centred the three-bedroom property’s colour palette on mossy shades of green that conjured the feeling of indoor-outdoor living, cornflower blues, and crisp, airy whites.

Furthermore, he outfitted the sitting room with a large indigo flat-weave rug. It features a soft-edged walnut-and-oak coffee and side tables, a teak chair with rush seating, a two-light, swing-arm wall sconce by Stilnovo in black (the sole modern accent in the space), and a potted fiddle-leaf fig tree. The exposed beams on the ceiling were kept true to the house’s original structure. These are prominently featured. And as one enters the room, are its two cane-woven chairs—design staples of any good Indian home. These subsequently transported Frieda to the houses of all her family in Bombay.

The end result is a gorgeous home with pops of interesting colour and texture. The home is a sanctuary from the bustle of everyday life.

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