Inside Ellen Pompeo’s Midcentury Malibu Beach House | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Today Architectural Digest is welcomed to Malibu by Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo for a tour of her inviting mid-century beach house. Pompeo first went to scope out the property several years earlier, when the house was originally up for sale and Grey’s was still in its infancy. “I knew I couldn’t afford it, but I didn’t tell anyone that,” she confesses. When the house came back on the market in 2013, she seized the second chance. As her fans know, Pompeo is a bona fide interior-design enthusiast whose past renovations include a modern barn in Sag Harbor and her main residence, a 1920s Mediterranean-style villa in Los Angeles. The addition of her Malibu home has only added fuel to the fire. “I am entering a very exciting phase of my life, if I do say so myself.”

Kitchen
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Kids Bedroom
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Backgammon by Suzi Kondi https://fave.co/3icmI9R

Bedroom
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Guest House
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Dining Room
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Living Room
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Director: Meg Sutton
Director of Photography: Grant Bell
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Talent: Ellen Pompeo
Producer: Chase Lewis
Line Producer: Joe Buscemi
Associate Producer: Josh Crowe
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Carol Wachockier
Talent Booker: Dana Matthews, Mica Medoff
Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich
Production Sound Mixer: Gray Thomas-Sowers
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Jarrod Bruner
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael

Artwork by:
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