Ellen Pompeo opens the doors to her Malibu weekend home

Ellen Pompeo continue to remembers swooning over the beach front house the initially time she noticed it. There was one thing unique about the modernist composition, perched on a blufftop overlooking the ocean in Malibu, California.

But there was one particular big hurdle: The price. At the time, “Grey’s Anatomy” — the ABC health care drama series on which Pompeo has performed titular character Meredith Gray for practically two a long time — was nonetheless a new present, and the household was as well high-priced. She begrudgingly let go of her dream to own it.

But not for far too prolonged.

Quickly-ahead to 2013, and the dwelling was on the current market once more. By then, Pompeo was a single of the best paid actors on television, and jumped on the possibility to incorporate it to her true estate portfolio. (Her family’s most important residence continues to be a 1920s Mediterranean-type property in Los Angeles.)

“I certainly take pleasure in the craft and artwork of residences,” she told the magazine. “It workout routines a diverse innovative muscle.”

A classic home with modern day touches

The 3,000-sq.-foot residence, made by midcentury architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman, is the ideal location for weekend getaways. Originally crafted 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 color on poolside furnishings. Credit rating: Douglas Friedman/Architectural Digest

Throughout the household are refined nods to that décor principle, adding identity to its living spaces. The household also displays “the sexy swagger of ’70s manner,” as the magazine places it — classic terrace chairs and leather couch in the living home a 1970s slicing table from Yves Saint Laurent’s studio in the entry lobby — and Pompeo’s appreciation for the era’s manner icons, with framed images of Diana Ross and Grace Jones on exhibit.

Surf’s up! The January 2023 situation of Advert offers a tour of Ellen Pompeo’s Malibu retreat. Credit history: Douglas Friedman/Architectural Digest

As a person the magazine describes as possessing “a weak point for serious estate,” this is not Pompeo’s initial property renovation. She’s beforehand designed about many attributes, together with a modern barn in Sag Harbor, New York. It marks her fourth job with Bullard, even, and there’s a lot more on the horizon. Pompeo and Ivery have purchased the property behind their seashore house, and approach to establish out what Bullard describes as a “real Malibu estate.”

A new dwelling marks a new chapter

“I am entering a really interesting phase of my lifestyle, if I do say so myself,” Pompeo mentioned.