""I want people to come to this house and fall in love," says musician Scout Willis wistfully, imagining the parties that will surely unfold in the charming storybook house in Hollywood that her friends have nicknamed "the Chapel of Love." "I want people to meet each other here and make out," she says, nostalgic for the sort of in-person encounters that take place in her recent music video "It Ain't Nothing," where she and costar Thomas Doherty lock eyes and graze fingertips"
"For Willis, though, this time it's the house itself she fell for. "I walked in and saw this ceiling," she says over FaceTime, showing off the home's groin-vaulted entryway, still sporting its original colored plaster. "And I immediately felt it." The quaint, Normandy-style cottage, built by architect Frederick A. Hanson (best known for his contributions to the Forest Lawn Glendale Cemetery) in the 1920s had been hardly touched since, its yard anchored by an enormous eucalyptus tree."
Scout Willis bought a petite, designated historic Normandy-style cottage in Hollywood built in the 1920s by architect Frederick A. Hanson. The house retains original features such as a groin-vaulted entryway with colored plaster and a yard anchored by a large eucalyptus tree. Interior updates respected landmark restrictions: original ceiling beams were revealed, windows subtly revised for airflow, and the kitchen and a former bedroom converted into a closet were renovated. Commune Design's Roman Alonso helped layer velvet textures, vintage finds and playful details to create a social, immersive home for intimate gatherings.
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