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At once a style guide, aninspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one’s home, thisbook will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur theirown creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up, she took the advice of her dear friend, film director Nancy Meyers, and took to the boards of Pinterest to find inspiration. There she discovered the practical and the fantastical, elements and styles long adored and ones that she never knew she was drawn to. Keaton’s dream house was officially under way and this book that resulted is a compelling account of her that house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood.

The House that Pinterest Built defines what home and house mean to the celebrated movie star, who is known for her love affairwith houses and design. Filled with ideas that reveal a personal yetengaging aesthetic, this volume includes compelling photos from Keaton’spast homes and those she admires, as well as a multitude of detailsfrom every corner of those spaces and objects that excite and inspirethe house designer and dreamer—dramatic staircases and magical lightfixtures, film stills and book covers, pottery and art—drawn from thevisual treasure trove known as Pinterest and Keaton’s privatecollection, as she creates and designs her newest house.
Rich imagery is accompanied by Keaton’s ideasfor selecting furniture, kitchen layout, and bedroom design; she talksabout the importance of lighting in the bathroom and why the living roomneeds to be reimagined. Beyond the interior, she explores curb appealand environmental sensitivity, always with an eye to making home the wayit should be—a place of tranquility, a place where one is restored andwhere one returns to dream again and again. The book culminates in thedream realized, the house she has imagined, designed, and made, nowshared with the world for the first time in all-new photography.

“If you want to explore. If you love to see. If you’re looking to look; this book is an example of a home made from the gifts of other people’s addictive yearnings for the perfect home, with the perfect landscape and the perfect interior. It illustrates my choices of your choices. Who knows, you might find one of your pins here. You might smile. You might shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’ You might think: ‘Hey that’s my kitchen. She copied my kitchen.’ But the truth is, as much as I tried, I could never entirely recreate the light filled photograph of a kitchen that led the way to the journey that brought me here. No one can.” – Diane Keaton