Diane Keaton has made a second career out of buying and restoring some of the most remarkable real estate in Southern California. Now, Architectural Digest has images of the popular actresses newest project located (quite obviously from the shot above) at 820 Roxbury.
The story goes according to AD: "[Keaton] actually bought the house when it first came on the market at the beginning of the decade, but she backed out during escrow and let another buyer take it. “It needed a lot of work,” she explains, “and I got cold feet.” When it went up for sale again two years ago, she bought it a second time—this time for keeps."
Apparently those homeowners made some good, and some God-awful changes which are detailed on AD's website. But after working with designer Stephen Shadley, the house was transformed into a showplace that evokes Diane's quirky personality.
The magazine writes: "Now when people walk through the door and see an extensive book collection devoted entirely to the visual arts, together with pots and other artifacts from an earlier California, they know exactly what Keaton’s passions are: art, architecture and the often neglected heritage of her native state. “The library sets the mood,” says Shadley. “It’s a distillation of everything that goes on in the house.”"
According to writer Gerald Clarke: "Keaton’s image, the result of her Oscar-winning performance in Annie Hall (1977), is that of a lovable flake who wears men’s hats and can’t keep a straight thought. In fact, she is better organized than most Harvard M.B.A.’s, and her hats—20 brimmed hats, two top hats and 34 caps and berets—are displayed as neatly in her bedroom closet as they would be in the best hat shop in New York or London."
