Scott Disick first stormed into the public consciousness more than a decade ago, calling himself Lord Disick on E!’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians—but without giving up his reality TV career, he’s recently settled comfortably into a new métier, house flipping, featured on his new series, Flip It Like Disick. And into a new home of his own, too.
This pivot wasn’t summoned from thin air: Disick’s interest in interiors and furniture began as a teen when he read design magazines and wished for a Minotti sofa. “But then for a pretty long time I stopped caring, because I didn’t really have any place to [express] it,” he says. “Once I was doing my own house, it came back to me and I started remembering all the magazines I used to read, the furniture brands, and different eras.” Back then he liked Italian midcentury; now he likes French midcentury. “Things change over the years, but I’ve always loved furniture,” he adds. Jean Royère, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand are his current favourites, all represented in the Hidden Hills home he recently completed.
Pictured artwork: Cleon Peterson, The Kill, 2016
Inside, this warm yet pared-back sensibility has more than enough space to shine. There’s nothing cluttered about the expansive pad—even chandeliers felt superfluous and were nixed. “I was looking for something that felt very East Coast,” says the native New Yorker. “I always pictured myself in a kind of Hamptons-feeling house, but updated.” The true selling point, however, was the winning combination of large lot, privacy, and view: a rare one in Hidden Hills, overlooking city lights.
Though the white clapboard home was a mostly finished new build when he took ownership, Disick made significant changes to the hardware, mirrors, lighting, bathrooms, and floors. He also replaced the basic wooden front door with an oversized one in glass and metal. “I like it to be as minimal as possible but still comfortable,” says the TV personality of his preference for stark interiors. “I have more art, but I had to take it off the walls because it was too much,” he adds of the tight edit. (On his wish list is a Jean-Michel Basquiat, “but I can’t really afford it.”)
The home is notably absent of colour. The only exceptions are his daughter Penelope’s pink bedroom, and a blue-and-orange pill artwork from Damien Hirst’s “Medicine Cabinets” series. The hyperneutral palette represents an evolution from his previous places: years ago quite colourful, later grey-toned, then all white, and eventually white with some black. Still, he admits there’s a time and a place for this type of restrained design. “If I have a ski house I’d want it to be cozier, not as cold and minimal.”
Perhaps surprisingly, Disick thinks he could pare things down even further. “I feel like I could take away things; I just feel like it might have a little too much,” he says. “But now it’s hard—when you have a bunch of kids, you’ve gotta have a bunch of stuff everywhere.” If any space feels free of their influence, however, it’s the formal living room, where a clean, curvilinear Jean Royère sofa and chairs sit off-kilter under an energetic Cleon Peterson canvas, grounded by a few wooden stools. “I saw a room like that in France, and I wanted to make it look similar,” Disick says of his inspiration.
The bedrooms—his features a massive custom nine-by-eight-foot bed—feel distinctly hotel-like, and he does know his way around some of the best in the world. Disick’s most loved are the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, the St. Regis New York, Aman Venice, and Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc. The latter helped inform the sleek infinity-edge pool he designed and recently built, oriented to that incomparable view. “I think that’s why I spent the time and money making it absolutely perfect,” says Disick of the long-planned pool. “It’s almost like a hotel back there.”
In the room of his eldest, Mason, Disick installed carpet to make it extra comfortable like a hotel, and added matching lamps to “spice it up.”
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He’s only been in it a few times, but, Disick says of his freestanding bathtub, “it looks cool.”
The cleverly designed wine cellar takes advantage of otherwise unused space under the stairs.
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The casual dining table—around which sit vintage Jeanneret chairs—is where the family frequently gathers, says Disick, who sourced the David statue in Italy but experienced quite a debacle getting it here.
The L.A. living room of reality TV star Scott Disick is where he spends the most time. Despite having a theatre, the comfortable space under a coffered ceiling is a favourite for movie watching. As for keeping all his white sofas clean with three little kids, according to Disick, he doesn’t.
The Carrara marble–clad kitchen is, like the rest of the house, restrained, down to the trio of monopoint lights he installed over the island. Disick designed the bar stools—made by his go-to custom maker Bespoke Furniture—based on a few different French designs he’d seen.
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What was meant to be a second living room Disick deemed unnecessary, replacing it with a theater that now serves as the perfect connection point in the house with the kids before bedtime.
Disick revamped the master bathroom hardware and cabinetry and installed new Toto toilets. “I built custom towel racks and, you know, put my touches on everything.”
The expansive backyard was a major selling point of the house. “There are a lot of gorgeous homes in Hidden Hills, but most of them back up to a hillside and don’t have any kind of view, whereas my house has a view like you’d see in Bel Air or Beverly Hills. It’s very rare,” he says. Disick designed new landscaping, including faux grass steps leading down to the pool and Jacuzzi.
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