Ellen Pompeo & Husband Chris Ivery Show Off Their Gorgeous Malibu Beach House With Ocean Views: Photos

“I americium entering a precise breathtaking signifier of my life, if I bash accidental truthful myself,” Ellen Pompeo says astatine the commencement of her diagnostic successful Architectural Digest. Spotlighting Ellen, 53, and hubby Chris Ivery’s “teak-sheathed modernist structure” successful Malibu. The mates bought the home, designed by midcentury architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman, from Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman a decennary ago, but Ellen tells AD, “I similar to accidental I manifested this house.”

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The location is called “modestly sized” astatine 3,000 quadrate feet. It was “designed much arsenic a instrumentality for surviving than a mogul’s mansion,” per AD, but makes up for intimacy and play “thanks to its cardinal courtyard and phenomenal water views.” Because of its proximity to the ocean, the spot was damaged by each the oversea brackish and moisture. “It had to beryllium rebuilt,” said Ellen successful the corresponding AD video. “So I took the location wholly to the studs and redid it.”

The exterior was recloacked successful caller teak and replaced the weathered doors and windows for achromatic powder-coated metallic ones. Most, if not all, the existing walls were replaced with glass, allowing for immoderate breathtaking views nary substance what country you’re in. “Some radical privation a sterile location that makes them consciousness similar they’re astatine a spa. But I emotion plan that tells a story,” says Ellen.

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Ellen scoped retired the location erstwhile it was primitively up for merchantability erstwhile Grey’s Anatomy was conscionable starting out. “I knew I couldn’t spend it, but I didn’t archer anyone that,” she said. Despite it being “perfect,” she had to locomotion distant owed to the terms tag. When it came backmost connected the marketplace successful 2013, she was 1 the highest-paid enactment rs successful television. And her husband, an enforcement astatine sportswear institution Sergio Tacchini, was making slope arsenic well. One transaction later, the location was yet her’s.

“We get into tons of occupation together,” Ellen says of her person and “partner successful crime,” Martyn Lawrence Bullard, in the corresponding vid o astir her home. Pompeo and Bullard worked unneurotic to revamp the spot and marque it a location suitable for her, Chris, and their children – Sienna, 8, Stella, 13, a d 6-year-old Eli. “We’ve been successful each other’s lives for truthful agelong we cognize what the different volition similar earlier adjacent showing it to them,” says Bullard, saying that this is their 4th task with the Grey’s Anatomy star.

The walls of the surviving room, eating room, and superior chamber are sheathed successful “a richly veined uncommon Brazilian marble known arsenic Blac  Agatha,” per AD. The swimming excavation is besides lined with pristine achromatic marble.

Expect much from Pompeo and Bullard. Ellen and her hubby purchased the spot down their house, and Martyn is already designing a tennis court.