See Inside Soleil Moon Frye’s ‘Hippie Girl’ Family Farmhouse in Hidden Hills https://t.co/3ubC7xryiJ
— People (@people) July 15, 2019
People Magazine has a feature inside Soleil Moon Frye’s farmhouse in Hidden Hills, where she lives with her husband of 11 years, Jason Goldberg, and their four children: daughters Poet, 13, and Jagger, 11, and sons Lyric, 5, and story. She’s has a sparse, open and rustic aesthetic with a lot of white linen furniture and space to move. Soleil touts her family’s outdoor lifestyle and togetherness and the home is designed around that. She’s likely trying to sell it, which is what these kind of features usually indicate. I like more stuff around and I love midcentury modern and more contemporary furniture, but this is Soleil’s hippie style (her words) and it’s very much her. It looks super relaxing. She also has a clawfoot tub in her bathroom, which works for her and was obviously a feature she requested! You can see the video of her home on People’s site and here’s some of their article about it. I’ve screenshot some of it below:
“The hippie girl in me is back to her roots!” says [Soleil Moon Frye], who decamped with her family from central L.A. to a 5-bedroom, 7-bathroom abode in Hidden Hills, California, last December.
“I always dreamed of living in a farmhouse, and I stumbled upon this magical place,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “To be outside the city, we can just be grounded in nature. And that’s really important for the kids.”
That also means her and producer husband Jason Goldberg’s two daughters, Poet, 13, and Jagger, 11, and two sons, Lyric, 5, and Story, 3, have more green time than screen time. “They’re outside all day,” says Frye, 42. “They climb trees and have picnics. I find critters and geckos in little buckets. It’s so fun for them to be able to dig in the dirt and get messy. I love that my kids have space to fulfill their imaginations.”
[Soliel]… says her bohemian roots shine through in one of her favorite features in the house: a Waterworks bathtub that stands in the middle of the master bedroom. “I’m sure not everybody is comfortable taking a bath in their bedroom, but I am!”
I’ve seen home design shows where people put tubs in their bedrooms out in the open like this, it’s not completely out of the ordinary. I know her home is staged for showing and she’s likely removed a lot of personal items, but where is the rug for that tub? She’s got hardwood floors in her bedroom so having a tub there is a recipe for water damage. Hopefully the floor around the tub is treated with a water protectant. I’m not a modest person so I wouldn’t mind having a tub in the bedroom for that reason, but why not just stick it in the master bathroom a few feet away? She has such an open floor plan that she probably has to store her towels and bath items in the bathroom anyway. (Or out in the open, we’re just not seeing them as they’re stashed. I do that when people come over and the drawers end up a mess.) In my dream bathroom there will be a jet tub and a shower with a seating area and a couple of different shower heads! I still think about Anthony Mackie enthusing about his aromatherapy shower because I want all that fancy bathroom sh-t. My dream bathroom similarly has gorgeous tiling and a tufted bench to apply makeup. Oh and Soleil also has a furnished yurt in the backyard where she meditates. A yurt is not on my dream house list but I wouldn’t turn one down.
Not feeling that decor, it looks unfinished to me.
I agree. There’s minimalism and then there’s ‘we haven’t moved in yet.’
I might enjoy a meditation yurt if I had a lot of land.
To me it seems that a lot of personal items were removed to make it showy but it does look as if she’s into the minimalistic decor. I kinda like it but it could do with some colour and maybe different materials – too much wood.
I’ve been remodeling my home for almost 5 years now. We’re trying to go for minimalist style as well so we have gotten rid of a lot of storage areas. You’d be amazed with how many things you actually don’t need. Decor items are just clutter. I love the minimalist style. However, the difference between Soleil’s style and mine is I have color. I have a lot of wood as well, but we also have colored furniture so it doesn’t give a bare look/vibe. I hate the all white look.
There are no upper kitchen cabinets. Where do you store dishes/glasses? No rugs, no art on the walls. Awfully plain and impractical.
Floating shelves make my eyes bleed. I am so over that trend. Give me big, awesome cabinets any day.
Nope to that kitchen. Where do you put all your stuff? I hate all the low furniture. Ok you’re a minimalist but why wouldn’t you have a drape, a rug, a headboard, a piece of art? Are you allergic to color?
This reminds me of a great Mitch Hedberg joke…”eff you real estate lady, this bedroom has an oven in it!”
I don’t care for it. I like my bathtub in the bathroom.
Thank you for starting off my day with a Hedberg reference. Man, I miss that guy.
My favorite comedian! It’s hard to believe he’s been gone for 15 years.
He is definitely missed. Rest in peace, Mitch.
Wow, that place looks gorgeous, love it!
Love, ❤️, 💕 the kitchen, not loving the bedroom.
Bathtub in the bedroom would be a turnoff. The other spaces are fine but a little too minimal and bland for my taste.
I’d love to have her kitchen! The rest, nah.
Unpopular opinion: What’s with her kids’ names????
Terrible.
You’d think someone whose parents named them “Sun Moon” would be keen to avoid giving their children nonsense names, but apparently not.
Finding it hard to believe four kids including a three year old live anywhere near that house. Maybe they’re in the yurt.
I never understand people’s love for snow white furniture. I want a house and furniture that invites people to relax and is safe for kids. Maybe that is just me but white furniture looks sterile and unwelcoming in my mind. Of course my grandmother furnished her house like this and had a fit if we ever sat on her white furniture so maybe I am just traumatized
Ha! I was just thinking sbout those kids who she sez play in the dirt piling on those white sofas. The bare uncluttered rooms always look nice in pics, but I like living with all my ‘stuff’ around.
My couches are slipcovered and bedroom linens are all white with lots of pops of color. It’s actually easier, at least for me, to keep clean with pets/kids because you can wash/bleach the heck out of them when they get dirty vs having to get them dry cleaned or all sorts of special pretreatment to clean.
Nothing made me happier than getting rid of a white couch and replacing it with a darker color. So much better for everyday use.
I know someone who has a candy apple red jetted tub in their bedroom. It gives off a strong bordello vibe. Granted, I only saw the bedroom when the house was still under construction so maybe she decorated in a way that made it less cheap looking.
My plumber husband has ruined me because I’m looking at the tub thinking “oh. plumbing on the exterior wall… wonder if they used foam insulation”.
I love that she’s kept her hair long – I had such hair envy when she was on Sabrina.
I actually like the house assuming it had more of a personal touch normally. I think it could be really improved with the addition of a bunch of greenery – some smaller succulent or spider type plants on the shelves and some bigger potted plants around the rooms.
Ha! I had to scroll back to check if there were taps to go with the bath, or if the tub was just an ornament! I get you, Erinn. My daughter’s fiancé is a plumber, and he lives with us. He’s forever faffing about with the plumbing. I woke up to find a flash new mixer tap in my kitchen once. Another time, I came home from a doctor’s appointment, and he’d fitted a new toilet in my bathroom, complete with a fahnn-cy toilet seat that washes and dries your downstairs bits, and all while you sit a warm seat! But do you think I can get him to change the washer on the laundry tap? My daughter was saying this morning that she’ll need to pop over to my best friend’s house to get some of her hair chopped off. She pulled it out of her plait and let it fall down her back. It reaches the bottom of her bum cheeks. She often says she’s always keeping it long, though. So Soleil.
It’s like you’re describing my husband hahaha. He refuses to allow certain brands in the house for taps/showers (which pays off in the long run because it’s based on him having to replace SO many of those brands items). I also had trouble with water temperature for ages because he didn’t want to work all day and come home and rip a bunch of things out (understandable) if it wasn’t THAT bad. He’s installed some really fancy showers in the area – the kinds with the mist bits, but he hates installing them so he won’t even entertain the idea haha. They’re just not something that comes up often, and some are easier than others. He installed a suuuuper fancy coffee machine in a house a few weeks ago that was I think 7k ish. It hooked into the waterlines somehow. I could see the envy in his eyes when he was describing it because he’s also a coffee fiend (even though he said that he’d never spend that on a coffee machine even if he was rich).
I’m also in the same boat, hair wise. Once or twice a year I’ll say I’m chopping it off, but only have a few times. It’s touching the top of my bum though, not the bottom haha. My own mom keeps saying “what are you doing with your hair next?” because I KNOW the length drives her nuts because she’s someone who just loves shorter hair and she can’t understand why I’d let it grow so long.
That’s hilarious, Erinn! We should put the two plumbers in touch? On second thought… I know the type of coffee machine you mean. They have them in cafes. It’s like parallel lives – our plumber installed one in the cafe of Sydney Aquarium a couple of weeks ago. He did the same, describing it, and I also had the envy. I want one. I’m hopeless at using those machines, but luckily, my daughter was sent on a barista course when she got a part-time job in a very flash cafe at age 15. She still sometimes gets asked to cover a shift, on a Saturday night, even though she works 60+ hours every week as a Strata manager. She loves it. Oooo, don’t tempt me. I’m seriously going to think about getting him to install a coffee machine. We are Italian coffee fiends. Not him. He’s Danish-English. I’ll ask him when he finally finishes the new plumbing and drainage in the front yard. You know, the work that he’s been putting off for months, despite having already dug up the yard… The cobbler’s kids are always the ones without shoes.
She looks great!
The house is nice but, personally, I cant wait for whatever the next decorating trend will be. Too much ash/barn wood + hospital white walls. Have a nice pale buttercream yellow, get some fat recliners in there, hey. I am always gonna have MY recliner, I want my feet up. 🙂
She was funny on Friends as the girlfriend who got so excited she was always punching Joey.
Nice she is long term (in showbusiness years) married with kids.
Oooh. That who she is!
She is still so pretty. I was OBSESSED with Punky Brewster as a kid so I have a real soft spot for her.
Me too! I loved the show as a kid.
I don’t mind the aesthetic of the house, but it’s what everyone is doing these days and doesn’t feel personal.
Also, no artwork??? Seriously, nothing on any of the walls. No books, no toys – it looks like a hotel, not a home.
We had a client who insisted on the tub in the bedroom. If you like that, great, but it’s not for most people, and that house has been sitting on the market for a while now.
I have a clawfoot tub in my bedroom as well. I got a lot of flack and unwarranted opinions when I told friends what I was going to do, but I get a lot of compliments on it now. The plumbing isn’t on the walls though. It’s on the floor. I didn’t like the idea of water coming from my walls.
Me too! It was on my list as soon as I started thinking about an addition. Why? Because I spend a lot of time reading and relaxing in the tub and I’d prefer not to do that next to a toilet!
Also, the sink (with toothbrush + makeup) is near the tub and not in with the toilet either. It makes getting ready for work/bed so much easier.
Not my cup of tea in the slightest. We like to go on holiday to south-ish France and lots of these holiday homes that I look at have the full bathroom in the bedroom including the actual toilet. Is it a cultural thing or something they see as “sexy”, watching your partner bath, shower, brush their teeth, pee? lol Or are they too tight with their cash to put up a plasterboard wall?
How old are the houses? That can be a factor. We renovated a 100 year old Victorian and the bathrooms are all from converted closets. They are not large. We almost put a tub in our bedroom because of space reasons, but then we decided to just combine two bedrooms to make a proper master suite, so we turned the smaller bedroom into a large bath and the old bath became a dressing room for me. But if we had kids who needed that bedroom, yes, the tub would be in our bedroom for lack of any other space for it. The attic has what used to be a maid’s room, and the sink is in the bedroom, with a small water closet for the toilet and the shower which is just a drain in the floor.
They seem to be a mixture of old and fairly new. We stayed in one which was a new build made to look old; the master bedroom had the double sink, shower and toilet. The toilet thankfully had a screen and the shower was had a glass partition but you could lie in bed and watch your partner shower, brush their teeth, take the wig off … whatever you do in the bathroom! I do understand that some old properties may adopt this idea as room size can dictate usage.
That photo… that’s not a clawfoot tub. They have feet. With claws. It’s right there in the name.
Exactly, that’s not a clawfoot tub at all. It’s a freestanding basin tub. Clawfoot tubs sit above the ground on feet.
IKR?!?!?! when did words stop being used with their intended meaning? it’s a small detail but I am disturbed by an overall trend towards meaningless word salad in lieu of overt facts (like a claw foot tub has claw feet)
You’re right!
Glad I wasn’t the only person that noticed that. I was thinking she had an antique tub! I once stumbled upon a place that was filled floor to ceiling with antique clawfoot tubs. They were tiny!
Scrolled thru waiting for this comment! Liiiike put your tub wherever who cares but that isn’t a clawfoot. As another commenter said: it’s in the name. A tub without feet that end in claws wrapped around balls…. isn’t a clawfoot tub. I was excited to see it too, i love vintage bathtubs!
never. half the enjoyment of taking a bath is being locked away from the rest of the world for two hours. i can’t imagine trying to take a peaceful bath away from a husband and four kids just in the bedroom.
I’m into awesome bathtubs but I’d put it in my she shed. I love taking my outdoor showers in my yard, where I’ve got a huge tub 🛀.
My baby sister loved her also as Punky Brewster, @ Kitten so I’ve got the same soft spot for Soleil.
My guy rotates art on and off of our walls seasonally so I always have something new to rest my eyes on. We’re not richy-poo art collectors but I have amassed a number of images that give me pleasure in different ways, especially when he puts one up that I haven’t seen in awhile
For me, a home without colour and art is soulless.
Minimalism does not require the rejection of art.
I don’t know who she is but I need clarification – her kids name are Poet, Story, Lyric and Jagger??
I’ve seen freestanding tubs in the bedroom of some fancier inns/b&b’s. It does make the space feel more indulgent to me. Like, oh! Is that allowed? But I do cringe with wood floors below it.
Just a typical “hippie” living in a 12 million dollar house. lol
I’ve seen tubs in bedrooms before, especially in England. I thought it weird at first but then it grew on me. I love a white couch. Had one for 20 years. Never had a problem with it. But if I had a gaggle of kids and pets… i’d probably pick a darker color.
Super boring
It really does look like she just moved in and hasn’t finished unpacking. I get rustic farmhouse and I get minimalism, but the 2 don’t really go together very well. I think some cool drapes and area rugs would go a long way in this home.
oh, and ditto to the “it’s not a clawfoot tub” comments above.
The super white dining chairs give me hives. Maybe my kids are wild animals but there is just no way those would last one meal on my house.
If I had this I’d have to pee in the middle of the night, I’d trip and break my neck.
As someone whose laminate flooring is all coming up today as a result of my upstairs neighbor’s water heater leaking into our place (and us being gone for a few hours when it happened), you couldn’t pay me to have a tub anywhere but a bathroom that had solid flooring that wouldn’t be destroyed if water got on it.
i had a clawfoot tub,,,romantic old antique,,,in the bedroom near bay window with orchids/ferns <3 yum
Oh, that sounds nice!
I’d shank someone for a claw-footed bathtub. I want one so bad that if ihad to have it in my kitchen, I’d make that shit work.
Me too!
The no upper cabinets in the kitchen looks awful…and the open floating shelves make my eyes bleed!!! Will this awful trend ever go away?! I can’t imagine having to deal with dust and dog hair with open shelves?! NO THANK YOU! This house is not my style at all but I’m glad she loves it since it’s hers. LOL
I was super on board with the tub in the bedroom until I saw it. For me the best baths are next to large windows or outside. Houses without art make me sad, but I’m an artist so very biased.