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Kim and Kanye open the doors to their family home

The couple share a rare interview on home design, family and life - by Home Beautiful Team
  • 04 Feb 2020

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have taken fans on a tour through their minimalist home, and shared an intimate Q&A about family life.

The couple's suburban Los Angeles home was showcased in the latest issue of Architectural Digest, but when they first set eyes on it, it wasn't exactly love at first sight.

“We passed by this incredibly extravagant house while strolling through the neighborhood,” Kim told the magazine. “I didn’t really know Kanye’s style at that point, but I thought the house was perfection. Kanye was less enthusiastic. He said, ‘It’s workable.’”

Kim and Kanye open the doors to their family home

Seven years after purchasing the property, the couple have transformed it from a McMansion into a "futuristic Belgian monastery". 

 

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"This house may be a case study, but our vision for it was built around our family," insists Kanye West of the otherworldly oasis he and wife @kimkardashian crafted alongside #AD100 designer @axelvervoordt. One might wonder about the challenges of raising four small children in such a pristine, cream-colored environment, but Kim and Kanye are quick to point out that the house is eminently kid-friendly. Above, the family is pictured in a room devoted exclusively to a gargantuan, creature-like soft sculpture fashioned by artist Isabel Rower. Asked whether the space is a playroom or an art installation, Kanye demurs: "Everything we do is an art installation *and* a playroom." . Visit the link in our profile to take a tour of the home. Photo by @jackie_nickerson; text by @mayer.rus

The Kardashian-Wests hired renowned Belgian designer Axel Vervoordt for the project.

"Kanye and Kim wanted something totally new," the designer says. "We didn’t talk about decoration but a kind of philosophy about how we live now and how we will live in the future. We changed the house by purifying it, and we kept pushing to make it purer and purer."

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@kimkardashian and Kanye West-alongside #AD100 designer @axelvervoordt-transformed a California estate into a fascinating, otherworldly oasis of purity and light. The metamorphosis of the house from suburban McMansion to futuristic Belgian monastery, as Kanye himself blithely describes it, is a story of probing and passion-a testament to the iconoclastic mind of the boundary-defying musician and the fearlessness of the zeitgeist-defining reality star and entrepreneur. See inside our March issue cover story through the link in our profile. Photo by @jackie_nickerson; text by @mayer.rus

“The one thing Kanye and I had in common was our preference for a neutral palette. I love the simplicity of the design. Everything in the outside world is so chaotic. I like to come into a place and immediately feel the calmness,” Kim says.

Kim and Kanye Quiz Each Other On Home Design, Family, and Life | Architectural Digest

While the house doesn't seem like a typical family home, the couple say their four children are allowed a lot of freedom, and can ride their scooters down the hallway and jump around on the low tables. 

"This house may be a case study, but our vision for it was built around our family,” Kanye says.

“In the end, we don’t take it too seriously. We’re not going to be fanatics,” Kim adds.

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