The House that Pinterest Built - Diane Keaton

At once a style guide, an
inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one’s home, this
book will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur their
own creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up, she took the advice of her dear friend, film director Nancy Meyers, and took to the boards of Pinterest to find inspiration. There she discovered the practical and the fantastical, elements and styles long adored and ones that she never knew she was drawn to. Keaton’s dream house was officially under way and this book that resulted is a compelling account of her that house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood.


The House that Pinterest Built defines what home and house mean to the celebrated movie star, who is known for her love affair
with houses and design. Filled with ideas that reveal a personal yet
engaging aesthetic, this volume includes compelling photos from Keaton’s
past homes and those she admires, as well as a multitude of details
from every corner of those spaces and objects that excite and inspire
the house designer and dreamer-dramatic staircases and magical light
fixtures, film stills and book covers, pottery and art-drawn from the
visual treasure trove known as Pinterest and Keaton’s private
collection, as she creates and designs her newest house.

Rich imagery is accompanied by Keaton’s ideas
for selecting furniture, kitchen layout, and bedroom design; she talks
about the importance of lighting in the bathroom and why the living room
needs to be reimagined. Beyond the interior, she explores curb appeal
and environmental sensitivity, always with an eye to making home the way
it should be-a place of tranquility, a place where one is restored and
where one returns to dream again and again. The book culminates in the
dream realized, the house she has imagined, designed, and made, now
shared with the world for the first time in all-new photography.

ldquo;If you want to explore. If you love to see. If you’re looking to look; this book is an example of a home made from the gifts of other people’s addictive yearnings for the perfect home, with the perfect landscape and the perfect interior. It illustrates my choices of your choices. Who knows, you might find one of your pins here. You might smile. You might shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’ You might think: ‘Hey that’s my kitchen. She copied my kitchen.’ But the truth is, as much as I tried, I could never entirely recreate the light filled photograph of a kitchen that led the way to the journey that brought me here. No one can." – Diane Keaton