Today Architectural Digest is welcomed by Sofía Vergara to tour her stunning home in Los Angeles. The Griselda star had quite a challenge on her hands when first acquiring her palatial Beverly Park mansion–according to her, it resembled a castle you might find in Transylvania. But with the expert help of interior designer, Ohara Davies-Gaetano, Vergara’s home was transformed into a Mediterranean paradise in the heart of California. Ornate European touches fill the space, from an 18th-century French limestone fireplace to baroque antiques placed beneath a 19th-century Italian chandelier. Vergara’s home truly does transport you to the luxurious rivieras of Europe and makes a perfect sanctuary to enjoy for years to come. “My friends from Colombia find any excuse to visit. There’s just something about this place that makes guests want to stay. It’s special. I still wake up every day thinking, I can’t believe this is my life.”See more of Sofía Vergara's stunning home here
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00:00 [door opens]
00:01 Bienvenidos a mi casa, Edie.
00:03 Good to see you.
00:04 [upbeat music]
00:06 This is my dining room, my formal dining room.
00:18 It's one of my favorite rooms in the house,
00:21 definitely because of the detail.
00:23 It is amazing ceiling.
00:25 It's all hand painted.
00:28 And it brought this room to life.
00:31 I think another one of the special details of the room
00:34 is that tapestry is 18th century French.
00:37 And I think all the colors bring together
00:40 the whole mood of the room.
00:43 I love to collect china.
00:45 One of the most important things in entertaining
00:47 is putting a lot of effort in the details,
00:50 making people feel like they're eating something special,
00:53 looking at something beautiful.
00:55 And I think that china is what helps me.
00:58 Achieve that.
00:59 And these cabinets are perfect for that.
01:02 Take a look.
01:03 - Wow.
01:06 - And this is only the beginning.
01:08 I have more.
01:09 [upbeat music]
01:11 And of course, another super important room is the kitchen.
01:22 I'm Latin, so we love entertaining with a lot of food,
01:26 a lot of friends.
01:27 And we're always here.
01:28 It's hard to take the people out of the kitchen,
01:30 even though I made most of the room very comfortable.
01:33 That was the idea when O'Hara and I decided
01:36 to create all the little different rooms.
01:40 But unfortunately, people still don't wanna leave
01:44 the kitchen.
01:45 I love the counter, the white awnings.
01:48 This magnificent stove is La Cornue.
01:52 I don't know anything at all about it
01:55 because I do not cook.
01:57 I don't want to learn to cook,
01:58 but my son Manolo is great at cooking,
02:01 and he said that this was what I needed in the house.
02:04 So here it is.
02:06 I only care that it looks amazing.
02:08 [upbeat music]
02:11 Here we are at the family room,
02:21 and way in the back is the formal living room.
02:24 I love it because they all open to the backyard,
02:27 which is my favorite thing about the house.
02:30 Every room opens to the pool and the backyard,
02:32 even when you're upstairs in the guest rooms.
02:35 And it's also perfect that this room opens
02:38 to the second floor where all the guest rooms are.
02:41 So every time something is happening,
02:44 everybody can check out that they're not missing on stuff,
02:47 and they just take a peek,
02:49 and they decide if they wanna come downstairs
02:51 to join or not.
02:52 And here is where we have parties
02:56 and where we sit to watch TV
02:58 and where all the drama happens.
03:00 I kind of like started collecting crystal birds
03:05 because I love birds and I love crystals.
03:09 And then when I learned that they existed together,
03:12 I was like, oh my God, that's like my favorite thing now.
03:15 So if you guys wanna send me something,
03:17 send me a bird made out of crystals.
03:20 My whole life, one of my, how Americans say,
03:24 bucket list, list,
03:26 it was to own anything that I could afford
03:29 from Fernando Botero,
03:31 one of the most amazing, prolific artists in Colombia
03:36 and in Latin America.
03:38 And I always dreamed of having one.
03:40 In 1983, he started painting the Matadores,
03:44 which is the bullfighters.
03:46 I was still living there in 1983.
03:48 I was still very young.
03:50 And when I saw it, I'm like,
03:52 one day maybe I'll get that one
03:54 because he's known for creating
03:57 these very big, voluptuous figures,
04:00 but there was something about the Matadores
04:02 that I was very attracted to.
04:04 And I still have that picture
04:06 when he came out in a newspaper
04:09 in my hometown in Barranquilla.
04:10 And then last year I got the real one.
04:14 Here it is.
04:14 [upbeat music]
04:17 And this one is one of the most important corners
04:24 of the house.
04:26 Where are you?
04:27 Here.
04:27 Is where happiness leaves the bar.
04:33 What do you want?
04:38 [upbeat music]
04:42 So when I found this house, it was horrific.
04:45 It was like a castle in Transylvania.
04:48 But when I walked outside and I saw this garden,
04:52 I knew this is where I wanted to live.
04:54 This outdoor area is an extension of the house,
04:57 which is to me the most special place in the house
05:01 because of the energy, the colors.
05:04 I drink coffee here.
05:05 I bring my kids here.
05:07 I bring my kids to the park.
05:09 I drink coffee here.
05:10 I bring my lunch in here.
05:12 I bring my friends, meetings, everything.
05:14 There's something about this garden
05:16 that is really inviting
05:17 and people come and they don't wanna leave.
05:19 So when that started happening,
05:22 that I realized it's so difficult
05:24 to get the people out of the freaking house,
05:26 I realized that we had done a great job.
05:29 All I wanna do when I am at home
05:32 is relax back here outside.
05:35 And I usually sit in that corner and drink coffee
05:40 and I play with my son's dog.
05:43 And I mean, I'm like Don Corleone.
05:46 I sit there and everybody comes and talks to me
05:49 and I receive all my guests,
05:51 everyone from that corner, from that couch.
05:54 And the pool area is super important
05:56 because from every bedroom,
05:58 you see the pool, you see the pool house.
06:02 I wanted it to give you a feeling
06:04 like you're out in the Mediterranean,
06:06 like in Italy, like you're in a villa, in a hotel.
06:10 And it was very carefully how we decided to pick the plants,
06:15 whatever was gonna be created in the hill.
06:18 There was nothing in the hill when I got the house.
06:21 So I had to start from scratch.
06:23 And I created this a little bit of a tropical,
06:28 I wanna say like environment
06:30 because most of these plants
06:31 are very beautiful tropical plants
06:34 that are not exactly supposed to be in the Mediterranean,
06:38 but it made me feel a little bit like I was in Colombia.
06:42 Well, and this is, you know what this is,
06:56 where the good times happen.
06:59 All the sleeping, eight hours.
07:02 I love this bedroom.
07:03 It's super cozy.
07:05 It's a lot of light that comes in in the morning.
07:08 It's perfect.
07:10 I feel comfortable.
07:11 I feel sexy.
07:13 I feel everything in this bedroom.
07:16 I've always had a thing for four pool beds.
07:20 And I think this one is very special.
07:22 I love the color.
07:23 I love the textures.
07:24 I thought that it was gonna be perfect for the room.
07:28 I think it looks great with the house and it's sexy.
07:33 I love fireplaces.
07:34 Even though I live in California, I hate heaters.
07:36 I can't have heaters on.
07:38 So when it gets a little bit chilly in the winter,
07:41 I prefer to put the fireplace.
07:43 Not only because the heat is better,
07:45 but it's also, it makes the rooms very beautiful.
07:48 The lighting is beautiful when the fire is on.
07:50 Well, and that's not any fireplace.
07:52 It's from the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
07:55 And it was something special.
07:57 The designer, O'Hara and me wanted to bring into the room
08:02 and she found that.
08:03 And we thought that was it.
08:05 We don't need anything else.
08:06 I loved working with O'Hara.
08:08 She kind of saved my life
08:09 because I was like in a little of a crossroads.
08:14 I was, it's either I'm gonna hate this house
08:17 or I'm gonna love this house.
08:19 What am I gonna do?
08:20 I don't wanna move in here
08:21 because I don't think things are coming out the way I wanted.
08:25 So finally I found her and she helped me unravel
08:30 everything that was wrong with the house.
08:32 And this is a little sitting area in the bedroom
08:42 that is super practical
08:43 because sometimes the bed is all perfect
08:46 and I don't wanna ruin it during the day.
08:48 So what I do is that I ruin all this
08:51 and I lay down here.
08:59 This arch is amazing.
09:01 This is definitely the most beautiful bathroom
09:04 I have in the house.
09:07 I think the combination of colors,
09:08 the beige and the gray is like really unexpected.
09:12 It's perfect.
09:13 I mean, look at the view.
09:15 Look at the bathtub, the view from the bathtub.
09:18 It's perfection.
09:20 [upbeat music]
09:23 And this is where I actually really live, in my closet.
09:34 This is where I spend most of my time.
09:36 This is like a girl's girl's dream.
09:39 I was thinking about this closet for a long time
09:42 because I love everything that is, you know,
09:45 organized by color.
09:46 And Linda Cooper Smith designed
09:49 this amazing, amazing closet for me.
09:52 And I try to keep it as organized as you see it,
09:57 but sometimes it's hard.
09:59 You know how girls are.
10:00 I never knew that I needed to see my bags
10:04 so organized like that.
10:06 I used to have them all like stocked together.
10:09 So now it's very easy to know exactly what I need,
10:14 but I'm still late.
10:15 All this stuff in the counter is very special for me.
10:18 This is something that I bought at an antique shop in Paris.
10:23 And this is a picture of my brother who passed away
10:28 and my favorite cousin who passed away.
10:34 So this is an important picture for me.
10:36 And then this picture,
10:40 it was when I was young and fresh.
10:43 (upbeat music)
10:46 Bye, AD, thank you for coming.
10:56 (gunshot)
10:59 (upbeat music)