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“Ariel and Reinaldo are very, very patient,” says Bullock. (That necessitated a lot of local shopping for quick swaps.) “This was all new territory for me since I had always been on-site for projects,” Bullock notes, adding, “now I had to give up some control, which I am not very good at.” In a sign of the times, the three have still never met face-to-face.

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The goal, notes Ashe, was for the interiors to “feel full but not cluttered.”Ĭollaborating remotely meant that the designers would often try out pieces in the space, sharing photos with Bullock via email and text. Other references included the early work of Rose Tarlow. As for the kitchen, they installed stainless steel Bulthaup cabinetry inspired by Jasper Conran’s home. Nearby, an antique Flemish tapestry anchors a soaring wall. To complement Bullock’s collection of antiques, the designers added custom pieces like the sofas that flank the parlor floor’s fireplace, creating a cozy conversation area. “We took the shine off everything,” recalls Ashe, who added Noguchi pendants throughout to cast their inimitable glow. The wood floors were sanded to reveal the grain, the fireplaces honed, and the walls painted in Benjamin Moore’s SuperWhite. Working from afar on account of the pandemic, the kindred spirits initiated what was meant to be a kitchen remodel but which soon expanded into a total reimagining of the rooms. I just need to find the fine artists that can execute what’s in my head.” More recently, Bullock has refreshed that vision with the help of AD100 duo Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro of Ashe Leandro, to whom she was introduced via her friend Amanda Anka and whose work-she quickly realized-she had long admired. “I am no fine artist, but I can walk into a building, and I can feel what the space wants to be. “That kind of craftsmanship used to be handed down from generation to generation,” she reflects, noting that the specialists she assembled represented not just 15 nationalities but a world of wisdom. (One that had been removed by a past owner was even discovered at the home of a next-door neighbor.) Behind every piece of drywall, she recalls, there’d be “the story of what used to be.” To write the next chapter required the help of an expert team of artisans capable of putting the pieces back together. Here, those details included the missing chunks of ceiling medallions that had to be carved by hand, as well as the 19th-century fireplaces that were meticulously recreated. “I think taking on the brownstone restoration was me attempting to find my footing into adulthood.” In renovation, as in any screen performance, Bullock delighted in the details-revealing wit, strength, and poise moment to moment. At the time, she recalls, her life was in flux. “Each place is different and each place has its own history and memories layered into it.” Of all those projects, “the big one,” as she describes it, has been a 19th-century town house in Manhattan, a property that required “so much needed restoration and love.” Attracted to its rear garden, original chimneypieces, and airy parlor level, Bullock purchased the residence more than 20 years ago. “Since being an actress was not something I thought I would be allowed to do past a certain time, every penny I made I would invest into real estate,” recalls the Hollywood star, who has pursued that private passion for design far from the Hollywood spotlight, nursing properties back to life. Granted, of course, that is a significant if for the Oscar winner, one of Tinseltown’s rare remaining ingots of box-office gold. If Sandra Bullock weren’t an actor, she would be an architect.