Jamie Lee Curtis and her long-time husband Christopher Guest have been living in the very same Los Angeles home since they fell in love with it back in the early 90s. The couple renovated and customized their home over the years, and these days, the Spanish Colonial Revival style estate also offers a modern aesthetic inside. In 2016, Jamie Lee and her husband further added on to their property – buying up the neighbors’ home for $3 million.
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Jamie Lee Curtis and her longtime husband Christopher Guest have been living in the
very same Los Angeles home since they fell in love with it back in the early 90's.
The couple renovated and customized their home over the years and these days, the Spanish
colonial revival style estate also offers a modern aesthetic inside.
In 2016, Jamie Lee and her husband further added on to their property, buying up the
neighbor's home for $2.2 million.
Way back in 1992, Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest would set their eyes on what would become
their beloved family home.
The couple has been happily living here for about three decades now, adding on to the
property with the purchase of a neighboring home in 2016.
Since 1992 was a long time ago, there's no word on how much Jamie Lee paid for her Spanish
colonial revival abode.
We do know that, at the time of purchase, the estate, which dates back to 1929, needed
some work, and the actress set out to customize the place to her liking.
Jamie and Christopher's home is located in Santa Monica, reportedly in a canyon in
West Los Angeles, and when they first saw the place, it seemed dark inside and was full
of antiques.
Jamie claimed many of the rooms, such as the traditional kitchen, hadn't even been updated
since it was built back in the 20's.
She added about these features,
It was an upstairs-downstairs kind of house.
It was designed for live-in help.
It was very much a house for people to be served in.
While there was a lot to be done, Jamie knew that even then, the home could be wonderful.
She recalled this memory to Architectural Digest, saying,
I'm one of those impulsive people.
I believe that I can make almost any place lovely, I can make it a home.
Almost any house I see, it's fabulous.
Christopher, on the other hand, is very different when it comes to house hunting, but they're
current home was definitely an exception for her husband.
When they were looking at the house to purchase, he first climbed onto a hill above the property
and looked down towards it.
Then he saw terracotta roof tiles and eucalyptus trees, which prompted him to say that they
should buy it.
Remembering this time, Christopher said about the grounds,
It felt like a park-like setting.
I was happy with that.
Today, the home is dark and old no more.
It has an airy feel throughout, and while it's quite modern in many spaces, there's
still a warm and homey energy with lots of personal touches to show for Jamie and Christopher's
family life.
Jamie said during this 2002 interview with AD,
I'm gonna sound so pretentious, it's sick, but my goal for the house was to bridge something
old and tired with a much more contemporary aesthetic, which is the way we live.
It's the blending of these two elements.
An old traditional Mediterranean house with a sort of zen.
The thing I'm proud of is that blending, which is very much a part of me.
The couple certainly managed to make this stunning house a home, and right when you
arrive at the Mediterranean style structure, you see this personality even in the front
yard.
There's a plaster statue here of a figure with a top hat holding a mallet by the front
door, and a silly portrait of Christopher above which is a prop from an old TV series.
While Jamie Lee's family home is very casual and welcoming, it still took a ton of work
to transform it into something so stylish.
Before the couple moved in, they started to renovate it, upgrading the electrical and
plumbing, and doing some cosmetic work.
Then they worked with architect Michael B. Lehrer and transformed the formerly two-bedroom
abode to large-scale renovations, changing the floor plan.
In the first one, they added a child's bedroom and two new bathrooms, while another children's
room in the home was reconfigured as well, and Jamie and Christopher's master suite
and bath was too.
Then, later on, a large part of the lower floor was renovated, taking that small kitchen
and opening it up into a new and open space, combined with a family area.
From photos, we can see the main living room has soaring double-height ceilings, which
are also wood-paneled and beamed, and there's a large fireplace on one wall, with French
doors on another, and hardwood flooring underfoot.
While there aren't too many furnishings here, the custom-made large pieces and uncluttered
walls allow the original features, like the ceiling and angled fireplace, to stand out.
Nearby, the dining room wasn't super fancy either, but it boasts the same hardwood flooring
and French doors.
For help with the interiors, Jamie turned to Jan McFarland Cox, an Idaho-based artist
with whom the couple has worked with before on several places, including a cabin they
owned in Idaho.
For their abode, they decided to emphasize this house's Mediterranean origins.
Cox said,
So, they went for a clean-line design for the most part, and used large modern and classic
furnishings.
Jamie has also admitted that she doesn't like a ton of furniture, and so they kept
things more simple and spare.
The kitchen with family area was definitely more zen after the renovations as before.
Jamie said the space used to be a tiny kitchen, a tiny breakfast room, and a weird little
guest room.
The banquets in here were designed by Cox and Curtis, and they have pull-out drawers
which double as footstools.
The updated kitchen blends into this functional area and breakfast nook seamlessly, with space
for the whole family.
In the home, Jamie and Christopher also lovingly selected their photography collection, and
have those pieces on display, as well as items like a Chinese red lacquer chest, which was
a giveaway at the Golden Globes, and an old collectible photo of Louise Rayner, an actress
who lived in the house in the 1930s, along with a ton of mementos of the couple's families
and children.
More recently, we can see Jamie and Christopher are still happily living here, as the actress
shares snaps of her home life on social media from time to time.
In recent years, it appears the kitchen was made even more white, and we can see it's
a bright space with white walls, matching cupboards, and the same wooden flooring, along
with a luxe marble island in the center.
There are also motivational pieces of art throughout, one print reading, note to self,
be kind, kind, be kind.
While Jamie and Christopher have spent years making this place their happy home, there
is always more to be done.
Christopher revealed a while back, I think it's like anything, it's a work in progress,
this house is going to keep living.
In 2016, it was also reported that Jamie and her husband purchased the next door home for
$2.2 million.
Adding onto their property makes sense considering how long they've lived in the same house,
and while there aren't photos or many details of the bonus estate, records show the home
is a two-level residence, spanning just over 1,900 square feet of space.
It was built in 1987, boasting three beds, two baths, and out back, a swimming pool and
garden.
And before we wrap this house tour up in the spirit of our Scream Queen Jamie Lee and Halloween
ends, let's just see where the real house from the movie is located.
Unlike many of today's horror flicks, the original Halloween from 1978 was filmed in
a real house instead of a movie set.
Word is that the one-time home of Michael Myers is 1000 Mission Street in South Pasadena,
California.
The home was recognized as a historic building and therefore hadn't been torn down, and aside
from being the Halloween abode, this structure, built in 1888, was the city's first duplex,
marking the arrival of settlers from Indiana.
A little-known fact is that the crew of Halloween had to fix up the house and whitewash the
entire front to capture the opening scene where a young Michael Myers murders his older
sister.
The home was relocated at one point, thus the addition to the back for the filming of
the movie had to be removed.
But aside from that, it's the same as it did in the 1978 film.
It's no longer a private residence, and along with interior modifications to convert the
bedrooms into office rooms, the exterior of the house was given a facelift and painted
light blue with red trim.
Fans hoping to visit can still see the famed landmark from the exterior.
All you do is get off the train at Mission Station, and you're close by to the Mr. Myers'
former abode.
Well, that's gonna bring this Jamie Lee Curtis house tour to a close.
Let me know what your favorite part of her longtime home is, or if you'd prefer to visit
the Halloween house instead.
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