Kim Kardashian Calls Her Hidden Hills Home a "Minimal Monastery"
In her new Vogue cover story, Kim Kardashian West opened up about her plans to become a lawyer—and in an accompanying video (part of the magazine’s 73 Questions series), the reality star opened the doors to the impressive Hidden Hills mansion she shares with her husband Kanye West and their three (soon to be four) little ones. The pristine, gallery-like home was the brainchild of West and renowned architect Axel Vervoordt, she revealed in the video, describing the abode’s style as “minimal monastery.”
When West interviewed Vervoordt for The Hollywood Reporter last year, the rapper noted to his interior designer that “architecture should communicate to humanity an understanding of proportion and spaces and the way it affects your mood.” And the mood of Kardashian and West’s home appears to be quite zen, with large, light-filled rooms with minimal furniture, all in white and beige tones.
Kardashian first greets the camera in an impressive, light-filled front entryway, then takes fans down a hallway lined with glass doors to what is presumably the master suite, which includes a separate sitting room. The bedroom itself is through a wide doorway and is entirely decked out in white and slightly off-white tones (the Vogue cover story describes the Kardashian-Wests’ bedroom as “the size of an airplane hangar”).
At one point, the camera peeks into the cavernous attached bathroom, where a wall of windows looks out onto a display of tropical plants and greenery. The double vanity in the bathroom almost appears to have no sink basins, while a deep soaking bath on the other end of the room looks as though it were carved out of a single block of marble. Two chairs sit opposite the entrance to the bathroom, anchoring the space.
Later on in the video, Kardashian leads fans back through a long, polished concrete hallway to the other end of the home, where she takes a sharp turn into the living room area, which boasts a unique unbleached Steinway piano (the same one that West used to serenade his wife prior to her 38th birthday last year). The room remains sparse, with a minimalistic fireplace on one wall; an eighth-century Thai statue; a very low, thin table; and a stylish white couch.
Just off the living room is the show kitchen, which boasts a majorly oversize center island with plants and other chic decor dotting the countertop, and an impressive wall of stainless-steel stovetops (with a stainless-steel backsplash). Entire shelves of matching earthenware bowls and plates can be seen on display in a separate pantry just off the kitchen. A breakfast nook lined with white cushions takes up one wall of the kitchen space, and a family room beyond that offers up a cozy gathering space for the busy family. “There’s no such thing as a lazy day,” Kardashian says definitively in the video, adding that the entire family being at home together is “really rare.”
Kardashian and West spent a reported $20 million to renovate the 8,000-square-foot home a few years back, and it is now worth an estimated $60 million.
