See How Sophia Bush Preserved an Incredible Bungalow in the Hollywood Hills
For a Hollywood actress, Sophia Bush goes against the grain. You won’t find the star, who has just landed a role on the Disney+ series Love, Simon, building herself a sprawling McMansion. Instead, this architecture aficionada is renovating and restoring a 1950s bungalow in the Hollywood Hills with a relatively cozy footprint of 1,815 square feet.
Bush has a keen design sensibility, so much so that she recently launched an interior decorating business, Filles Des Rincón. She originally intended to give her house a quick face-lift but soon realized that a more serious overhaul was needed, from installing a new electrical system to leveling the foundation and removing roots from the old clay water pipes.
Still, Bush was adamant about maintaining the home’s original elements, including the exposed beams that were a distinctive detail of the living area. “So many older homes in Los Angeles are being torn down to make way for tragic, enormous box homes with no personality,” she says. “Preserving this house felt important to me—it’s like a love letter to the city.”
With construction set to be completed by the end of the year with the help of contractor Orie Prince, Bush now has her eye on furnishing the interiors and has enlisted Jake Alexander Arnold for the project. The rooms will feature custom and vintage pieces that she has been collecting for years and a palette evocative of the California desert. She also plans to create an urban farm on the property surrounding her bungalow—she has already planted nearly 50 trees. Next on her wish list: a beehive and chickens.
Come along with ELLEDecor.com for the ride as we give you a behind-the-scenes look at Sophia Bush's gut renovation as part of our "LA ResidentELLE" Series. Check back here for updates.
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