Celebrity Decorator Kevin Haley's Hollywood Hideout

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Kevin Haley has designed rooms in Brad Pitt's house and a handful of other A-listers, but what does his house look like? Take a tour.

A fluke childhood friendship with A-list actress Winona Ryder -- his parents lived next door to her grandparents in Minnesota -- set Kevin Haley on a crash course to become an interior designer and decorator to the stars. Since doing the first house she ever bought in Beverly Hills, Haley has done a couple more for Ryder as well as homes for a laundry list of famous folks, including Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meg Ryan and Cameron Diaz.


Since 1997, Haley has made his home a secluded bungalow in the hills above Hollywood. Recently, the low-key designer decided to move on and put his done, done, done house in Hollywood on the market with a price tag of $999,000, otherwise known as a million bucks.

Living Room
As expected, Haley's interior spaces are quintessential Kevin Haley: A sleek and glammy old Hollywood vibe is paired with a sexy 1970s feel, but all of it is encased in a cottage-style skin. At around 1,500 square feet the bungalow isn't big, but the living room makes a grand statement with its raised tray ceiling, wood burning fireplace and walls nearly completely covered in antique mirrors. A baby grand piano ambitiously anchors one end of the room that opens up through a series of French doors to several terraces and patios that surround the house.

Haley filled the living room with elegantly funky and richly textured furnishings including a deep pile flokati style rug and a clean lined sofa softened with plush, dark gray velvet upholstery. A pair of chairs that may or may not have been designed by another decorator to the stars, Billy Haines, are bravely covered with leopard print fabric and flank the fireplace. A Lucite and brass coffee table between the sofa and the animal print chairs minds the gap and successfully joins a cacophony of wildly dissimilar decorative styles.

Dining Room
The petite Chinoiserie-style dining room is bright and chic. Matching wall coverings and window shades depicting ancient Chinese landscapes are paired with a contemporary chandelier painted the same pretty turquoise as the window frames and baseboards.

Kitchen
Haley turned architectural lemons into decorator lemonade in the small and oddly configured kitchen. The rich, almost lurid red lacquer that coats the walls that line the staircase in the living room gets another run on the kitchen floor. But it's carefully toned back with simple white Shaker cabinets and marble counter tops, then jazzed right back up with zebra print cushions in the window seat. He finishes the kitchen off with a vintage powder blue range, a funky and fun final thought.


Sitting Room
A small sitting room is fearlessly wrapped in a dizzying blue and green patterned wall covering. It gets the Kevin Haley stamp with a tufted, somewhat tatty looking but luscious sectional sofa with plush down cushions wrapped in kitten-soft, steely blue velvet. A rose velvet covered ottoman doubles as a coffee table and an oversized mirror, the exact same height as the doorway, leans up against the wall, which makes the room seem twice as large as it really is.


Bathroom
Haley's courageous use of color and intricate patterns continues unabated in one of the bathrooms slathered in itty-bitty navy blue glass tiles and accented with beautifully brash brass accents and shocking hot pink paint.


Master Bedroom
The small master bedroom gains maximum impact with a coved ceiling bathed in shimmery gold leaf and a square patterned wall covering. A glam headboard is made of mirrored panels, and a pair of matching ridged, green glass cylinder lamps that sit atop glitzy matching Lucite end tables.

Outdoor Living
At the front of the property, atop the garage and shielded by a thick and tall stand of bamboo, a pergola-shaded deck provides the perfect spot for an outdoor room furnished with comfortable and cushy upholstered pieces and lit with a funky multi-colored chandelier.

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