Jennifer Aniston opens the doors to her Bel Air home

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We’ve had a rare glimpse inside Hollywood sweetheart Jennifer Aniston’s Bel Air home and were left wanting more.

As one of the most recognisable women in show business, for all her celebrity, Jennifer Aniston will rarely invite close inspection of her personal life. We were left to speculate how she lived with her husband, actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux in the beautiful Bel Air home they shared with their three dogs and where Aniston continues to reside.

Earlier this year the actress invited Architectural Digest in for a complete tour and we could fall into every picture!

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Although Jennifer Aniston's career remains as big as ever (next up she plays a former beauty-pageant queen in the indie comedy Dumplin'), the life and home she has built keep her priorities in order. "There was a time when I thought there was something romantic about picking up and trotting off somewhere different every three months. Now I'm becoming more particular about the projects I take," she says. "I look around at my husband and my dogs and our home, and there's nowhere else I want to be." Sundays at the Aniston-Theroux home are reserved for cooking and frolicking by the pool with friends, children, and dogs. "We put out a mean taco bar, and the chili's pretty good in the colder months," the actress says. Get a closer look at their home through the #linkinbio Photo by @tycole; design by @stephenshadley; text by @mayer.rus

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"If I wasn't an actress, I'd want to be a designer. I love the process," says serial home renovator, and superstar actress Jennifer Aniston. "There's something about picking out fabrics and finishes that feeds my soul." Aniston's commitment to the craft was certainly put to the test in her latest residential project, the reimagining of a Bel Air house that was designed by architect A. Quincy Jones and completed in 1965. Aniston enlisted the aid of #AD100 interior designer @stephenshadley to help preserve the modernist ethos of the original scheme while softening some of its sharp lines and outfitting the interior with tactile, organic finishes and furnishings. "Sexy is important, but comfort is essential," she avers, pointing as evidence to the vintage Jean Royère Polar Bear sofa, Jacques Adnet armchairs, and Mies van der Rohe daybed arranged in the living room, pictured here. Take the full home tour through the #linkinbio Photo by @francoisdischinger; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @lawrenhowell

Having owned the property since 2011, Aniston immediately began to reimagine its interior design and decoration, despite the recent renovation to the 1965 property, designed by architect A. Quincy Jones.

“If I wasn’t an actress, I’d want to be a designer. I love the process,” Aniston told Architectural Digest.

“There’s something about picking out fabrics and finishes that feeds my soul.”
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Working with interior designer Stephen Shadley, she returned the home to its modernist best, with iconic furniture pieces, natural finishes, timber and stone textures and an inviting warmth throughout. “Jen is drawn to wood, stone, and bronze, materials that have real substance and depth,” Shadley told Architectural Digest. “No matter how beautiful or glamorous something is, it has to be warm and inviting,” he said.

The results are stunning, with no detail overlooked and a welcoming, genuine sense of home evident and nothing overdone. Comfort was key, “Sexy is important, but comfort is essential,” said Aniston.

Sweeping vistas from the alfresco dining spaces overlook an elegant, carefully landscaped garden with sleek pool, surrounded by warm timber decking and cabana.

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"Every corner you turn, you have an experience. Everywhere you look, you get a vista," says actress Jennifer Aniston of her recently completed Bel-Air home. "We worked very hard to get that flow right." The same imperative guided the transformation of the grounds, which previously featured a hillside vineyard. Garden designer @marcellovillano and landscape architect @anneattinger reorganized the alfresco spaces as a series of interconnected outdoor rooms, terraces, and Asian-inspired pocket gardens. Sundays at the Aniston-Theroux home are reserved for cooking and frolicking by the pool with friends, children, and dogs. "We put out a mean taco bar, and the chili's pretty good in the colder months," the actress says.Take a closer look inside the home through the #linkinbio Photo by @francoisdischinger; design by @stephenshadley; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @lawrenhowell

Allowing for generosity without flamboyance; the centerpiece of the master bathroom is a custom-made Calacatta marble bathtub, set alongside floor-to-ceiling windows that open fully on to a sunny, private manicured courtyard.

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When actress Jennifer Aniston bought this Bel Air property in 2011, it had just emerged from a renovation by architect Frederick Fisher, which, despite its sympathetic embrace of Jones's vision, skewed a bit too cool and minimal for Aniston's taste. "Aesthetically, it was the furthest thing from what I wanted, but I immediately had the sense that it could work. It's hard to describe, but I felt a connection." She enlisted the aid of #AD100 designer @stephenshadley to preserve the modernist ethos of the original scheme while softening some of its sharp lines and outfitting the interior with tactile, organic finishes and furnishings. "Jen is drawn to wood, stone, and bronze, materials that have real substance and depth. No matter how beautiful or glamorous something is, it has to be warm and inviting," Shadley says. In the master bath, a vintage rosewood stool from @jfchenantiques sits besides a custom Calacatta marble tub by Shadley with @wtrwrks fittings that looks out on a courtyard garden. Take the full home tour through the #linkinbio Photo by @francoisdischinger; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @lawrenhowell

The office is anchored by a stately desk and a pair of heavy leather club chairs, “I feel extremely powerful when I sit at that desk—so powerful, in fact, that I’m almost never there,” the actress joked.

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The desk in Jennifer Aniston's home office positively radiates authority. "I feel extremely powerful when I sit at that desk-so powerful, in fact, that I'm almost never there," the actress jokes. Instead, Aniston prefers to work at the relatively modest computer setup in the light-filled kitchen of the home she shares with her husband, actor and screenwriter @justintheroux, and their three dogs. "It's much cozier," she explains, "and I'm all about cozy." Aniston describes the centuries-spanning decor of the newly completed home as "Old World meets New World," a polyglot mix of hand-painted wallpaper and midcentury furniture, silk rugs and polished concrete, antique Japanese screens and Abstract Expressionist paintings. Shop the look of their home through the #linkinbio Photo by @francoisdischinger; design by @stephenshadley; text by @mayer.rus; styled by @lawrenhowell

Aniston remains happy in the home it seems, despite the split with her husband in February this year which, she says has not left her broken-hearted. “There was a time when I thought there was something romantic about picking up and trotting off somewhere different every three months,” she told Architectural Digest. “Now I’m becoming more particular about the projects I take,” she says.