Ellen Pompeo opens the doorways to her Malibu weekend house

Ellen Pompeo continue to remembers swooning around the seaside property the 1st time she observed it. There was a thing exclusive about the modernist framework, perched on a blufftop overlooking the ocean in Malibu, California.

But there was 1 major hurdle: The value. At the time, “Grey’s Anatomy” — the ABC professional medical drama series on which Pompeo has performed titular character Meredith Grey for approximately two many years — was continue to a new display, and the dwelling was as well high priced. She begrudgingly enable go of her dream to very own it.

But not for also lengthy.

Quick-ahead to 2013, and the house was on the industry all over again. By then, Pompeo was just one of the highest compensated actors on television, and jumped on the chance to add it to her authentic estate portfolio. (Her family’s major residence stays a 1920s Mediterranean-fashion residence in Los Angeles.)

“I genuinely delight in the craft and artwork of properties,” she informed the magazine. “It exercises a distinctive imaginative muscle mass.”

A classic assets with present day touches

The 3,000-sq.-foot home, designed by midcentury architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman, is the perfect place for weekend getaways. At first built in 1979, it wraps all-around a central courtyard flowing with grass, palm trees and a swimming pool lined with crisp white marble.

The property’s internal courtyard juxtaposes clean lines and crisp marble with lush greenery and pops of colour on poolside furnishings. Credit history: Douglas Friedman/Architectural Digest

All over the house are delicate nods to that décor principle, incorporating temperament to its living spaces. The home also reflects “the sexy swagger of ’70s manner,” as the magazine puts it — vintage terrace chairs and leather sofa in the residing room a 1970s chopping desk from Yves Saint Laurent’s studio in the entry foyer — and Pompeo’s appreciation for the era’s style icons, with framed pictures of Diana Ross and Grace Jones on screen.

Surf’s up! The January 2023 issue of Ad presents a tour of Ellen Pompeo’s Malibu retreat. Credit: Douglas Friedman/Architectural Digest

As somebody the magazine describes as having “a weak spot for real estate,” this is not Pompeo’s very first household renovation. She’s beforehand made more than quite a few homes, including a fashionable barn in Sag Harbor, New York. It marks her fourth project with Bullard, even, and you can find more on the horizon. Pompeo and Ivery have bought the assets driving their seaside house, and plan to establish out what Bullard describes as a “real Malibu estate.”

A new home marks a new chapter

“I am getting into a extremely fascinating section of my life, if I do say so myself,” Pompeo explained.