Kate Hudson Preserves Her Childhood Home With a Vibrant New Kitchen Makeover

There’s renovating a house, and then there’s returning to the home that shaped you, peeling back the layers of memory, and crafting something beautiful for the next generation. Kate Hudson is doing the latter.

Two decades after buying the Pacific Palisades house she grew up in, the actor has returned to its sunlit rooms with a renewed sense of purpose. “My very, very foundational memories were in that house,” she recalls, describing summers spent by the pool, lazy afternoons on warm brick, and the constellation of family – her mother Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, her grandparents, and an entire network of aunts and uncles – who filled the place with noise and love. When she walked back through the front door 21 years ago, “I just had this overwhelming wave of nostalgia.”

The 1930s house, charming and quintessentially Californian, has seen its fair share of reinventions. Hawn remodelled it when she and Kurt Russell built their new family rhythm there; later, when Hudson repurchased the property in the early 2000s, Roman and Williams were brought on to give it new life. But 2025’s renovation marks a turning point, one that nearly took a much more dramatic direction.

“I was going to blow everything out,” Hudson admits. “And then the fires happened. We lost so many old houses in the Palisades that I went: I’m not going to tear these walls down. So now, instead of doing this crazy remodel, I’m in the process of honouring the home as it was built.”

Honouring the past begins at the heart of the home: the kitchen.

Hudson has teamed up with Café Appliances to create the kitchen of her dreams – a collaboration cheekily titled “Blue Jean Baby,” as if plucked straight from the opening lines of Elton John’s Tiny Dancer. The name nods not just to the dreamy marbling anchoring the space, but to a very particular nostalgia for her Almost Famous era.

But if you were expecting a SoCal-coastal aesthetic, think again.

“I’m half Italian,” she says with a laugh. “I actually don’t want it to feel like California. I want it to feel like I just entered a Southern Italian home.” Hudson wanted colour – real, expressive, joyful colour. “Yeah, I want a blue and yellow kitchen. I want more primary colours without getting too distracting. I want it to feel serene and modern… but also vibrant.”

The striking blue marble, swirling like Capri seas under sunlight, was the first piece she committed to. It set the tone for the entire renovation – modern silhouettes, crisp cabinetry, and plenty of room for the kitchen’s true purpose: gathering.

While other parts of the house hold specific memories she’ll grapple with when the next renovation phase begins, the kitchen was surprisingly open territory. “My mom was just like, ‘You need to redo this house, take it all out.’” Hudson laughs. The freedom allowed her to shape the room around her life today – children running in and out, afternoons that evolve into dinner parties, and the sensory chaos she loves.

It’s a kitchen designed for abundance, for the kind of cooking that fills a home with scent and memory and movement, just like the one she grew up in.

“My favourite thing is when the kids are running around and in and out of the kitchen, and I’m cooking – I love to cook,” she says. “I like it loud; I like football on. A loud, active kitchen is perfect to me.”

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