Inside Tan France’s Handsomely Designed Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest

hi I'm John France welcome to my home come on in the house was built in 1906 I actually ended up purchasing it over FaceTime I was away I called my husband so he came to the home showed me around on FaceTime and I said we're buying that house he said there's no way it's hideous however I would like to believe that being incredibly gay I have vision and that vision is usually to make things pretty and here we have it okay this is a very common misconception but because I have very easy access to an interior designer Bobby that I would have asked for me for advice however I wanted to show Bobby that I could do it and that I'd learnt and so no I didn't ask Bobby back he's seen it and he seems very impressed the first thing I purchased for my home was my sofa there's a lot of grey that runs throughout the house a lot of gray and brass and so having this piece that fell almost mid-century modern with the brass hints dictated the rest of the deck or of the ground floor okay this is the focal point of this room I wanted to make a feature of this wall and you just want to have arches and not fill them well it all centered it around this this we had in our old home I liked it very much and so that was gonna be the vibe of these shelves and so almost everything that you'll see on here is from a vintage store a thrift store and then there's these awards here which I hide away we think the clock and nobody ever gets to see those I am very proud of what the show was achieved but I'm also very embarrassed by the accolades so these light fixtures were original to the house we had them rewired I love these I think there were beautiful sconce we were looking at more modern ones it just didn't fit in with the vibe of the house the fireplace was incredibly hideous it was a terracotta color it was all tiled I did not like it at all but it was original to the house and I didn't want to rip it out I wanted to keep as much integrity in the original house as possible and so we just painted it so it blends in with the rest of the home when you see me on the show queer I've season 1 and season 2 and I'm often looking off and I feel quite distracted it's because I was thinking oh what mirror is gonna go up fireplace it was so considered that I wanted to make sure we found a mirror that mimics the shape of the arch on the wall of my homes and we finally found it so from the living room we walk into the kitchen I love that again there's no door so it feels still relatively open what we have those comfortable spaces smaller spaces we've made the cabinets gray to make it feel a lot more modern we added brass touches to make it somewhat classic this is a a concrete custom concrete countertop I am very comfortable with my masculinity and my femininity are more feminine than masculine but when I designed a house I didn't want it to feel like a woman's home like a girl's home I think it would have been equally lovely and but more feminine I think to add like a marble countertop it would have been very nice but I like that this feels a little more industrial and robust I loved this Viking oven I baked constantly I cook almost every day I bake almost every day and so the the kitchens very very important to me and I like that I have enough space to be able to make a meal for 12 people the only thing I want to do when I'm home is that this set myself on watch TV or being here cooking something wonderful or baking something wonderful for my husband and my friends it makes me so happy however we did run out of storage space already that is a common problem we have in a home this just got added a few months ago so this was a completely open space this is now all storage into here so it's practical I didn't think I was gonna use it for a functional space but I truly do it makes me really happy I have a piece of work here the artists actually don't know what her name is other than her Instagram handle and her business is called strange dirt and she's a twin and you're gonna see a lot of her artwork around the house and her twins artwork this feels almost Art Deco and there's touches of the house that feel very much 50s so sorry between 20s and 50s and so this fits in in my opinion beautifully you'll also find a lot of my husband's artwork around the house my husband is a wonderful artist and a very successful artist every now and then he'll let me keep the pieces that have obsessed with and still will have it in the house however what we'll find is that it'll be up for a month and then he gets sick of it and he wants to move on to something else he's typical artist that drives me insane so my husband he starts work really really early in the morning he leaves it like five o'clock and so I come here first thing in the morning to make coffee this is the only way I can start meeting and he leaves notes of me every day eleven and a half years on this is what's his note this morning he's terrible writing you might not be able to read essays he truly is the nicest person on the planet I love him somewhat I love my dining room so off the kitchen I wanted a separate dining room that was has been my dream since I was a little boy quite honestly we grew up quite poor my parents were immigrants usually working two or three jobs we didn't have a dining room we didn't have a live space I had this fantasy that one day I wanted to live in America cause I used to watch a lot of American TV when I live in America I want to have a dining table where I could eat with my friends and my family when we purchase a home this was an office it did not have this I wanted to make sure that we had an archway that mirrored all the other archways in the home we had a domed ceiling to add a point of interest I wanted to create a table that was large enough for ten people sit around because there was ten of us who are very close and that come into my home every time I'm home so this is a perfect sized table for them these lights it took us ages to find I believe they came from India they create a really low light we wanted that kind of ambience we didn't want a bright dining room at all it's the most warm space in the evening I spend the happiest days of my life in this room without a doubt I am obsessed with the Queen I just find her fascinating and so I found this weirdly in a Richie store I treat this the way religious people treat a Bible like I make sure that it's always taken care of or than the flora y'all hear me gasp one of my favorite things in the harm that just makes me giggle isn't this so if you look closely you will see it's a picture of me and my ideas this was produced for us by Netflix and they sent it in a lovely favour we didn't favor it and I believe all of us have it in our homes I've seen it in Antony's I've seen it in Jonathan's and I believe that Bobby and chrome are happy and theirs if they haven't what are you doing dum-dums I put it up it's so nice okay now I'll show you upstairs before we get all the way up the chandelier this chandelier took quite some time also to decide on what we wanted to do we didn't want to do something small we wanted it to be really dramatic this was custom made in India for us they're all individual glass pieces which were incredibly heavy it weighs a ton we all worry that one night in the middle of the night there's gonna be an almighty bang and it's gonna be this but the two years it hasn't they old so let's hope it's gonna last another 30 we don't have a lot of guests staying because I'm here so infrequently so every six months or so we'll have some new , steak again all of our rooms have this domed effect this arched effect so we couldn't split the room I chose chocolate velvet curtains to make it look rich and luxe and then this is the only space you will see photos of my husband and I and the only reason we put it up is because we're being ourselves which is morons we don't take serious portraits that's just not our vibe at all and so yeah that little piece there is the only evidence you have that I am still married and that he hasn't divorced me even though I'm an actor so this rocking chair I love very much hopefully I will be a father one day and I wanted something that would be cute and comfortable and fit in with the house that I could rock my baby to sleep in and so this is it I think it's a lovely chair I don't know I didn't even think that I was gonna show you this but I am going to show you this is my candle closet so my candle closet I'm obsessed with I wish you had smell-o-vision because it smells off like just so so good we always have candles burning in the house this is actually the least fall it's been in a very very long time and then if I'm in a bad mood which is very rare my husband knows where I have them usually just here sniffing in the closet I'm really particular about bathroom space the way to achieve a successful marriage is this I know this is a bowie thing to say but if you can afford it don't go number two in the same place of your partner because then you keep the mystique alive this is a shared bathroom for us to shower but this is his bathroom you know what I mean we don't really bath alike we're not bad people and I always thought that seem sexy to have two shouts in a shower we've been married for 11 and a half years who cares if there's two showerheads nothing romantic is happening in here it's just nice to look at I like to keep as much continuity across the home so yes we have a lot of brass I love the subway tile I know that it was trendy a couple of years ago and people are probably over it I see it as a classic I love it so much and then the tile on the floor I wanted to be simple colors so it's really easy to tie in other colors and hopefully be livable for many many decades and without it going out of style nothing in the house you will see other than the actual structure is original we changed everything in the home the house was a house it was not home it was a gnarly gnarly house and now it's a hard okay so off the master bathroom is our bedroom I wanted a large enough bed but not to live so let me tell you this this is the furthest I will allow him and he will allow me to be from each other so we chose to get a normal size bed people when they see up - around they make fun saying all that house and you chose to get a small bed I want to be close to my husband I like him a lot I love that it's great eyes in with downsize which is immediately below this downstairs you'll notice we painted the sconces white these were originally black we just had them refinished I love that accent on the walls this space here used to be a closet like a linen closet I wanted to be able to create a little nook and I think this works beautifully I love this I spend a lot of time on this when I'm not downstairs on my sofa I will usually be in here this used to be a shower room in here and then the majority of it was a closet instead of having a closet I turn this into a water closet I love the bathroom I think is gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous I always fantasized about having a clawfoot bathtub but here's the thing I don't take baths now that is my husband I will force myself to take one maybe every six months just so I feel like I'm not a complete idiot for creating this bathroom and so this is literally an Instagram bathroom I don't use this for real life I actually hate having a bath I think it's a complete waste of time I have this bench here for once or twice a year when I'm having about when my husband consent here and we can have a lovely chit chat and then we have this Butler stand right here which has a bunch of robes that are clearly decorational only there those you serve no purpose because nobody is using this damn bathroom there's only two of us that live in this home I think this space is bloody beautiful it's the place where I come to take Instagram content that's it so because I removed the original closet and I clearly have a lot of clothes because I do that for a living I will show you what my closet looks like so come on okay so the final space that's actually finished is the closet so the closet is the only space of the house that I didn't design myself completely I worked with this design company to create a closet that felt very much to me I don't want it to be too feminine I didn't want it to be too masculine I wanted it to feel like a really good balance and so this is what we achieved this floor runs the whole length of the house this section here is my husband's he doesn't have a lot of clothes so this is his section the rest of it is mine unclear I I talk through how a closet should be organized to make life a lot easier for you and I always talk about color coordinating your closet come let me show you so I've loosely done it so I categorize my clothes into all button-up shirts or suits or lightweight jackets all heavy jackets you'll see that I mostly do it it just every now and then I travel a lot I ain't got time to figure out my closet right now we have shelves at the top of this that are completely empty I haven't found the perfect thing that will live there yet that will bring me complete joy and so they are currently empty don't judge me this right here is the piece that I wore for the Emmys this took a disgusting amount of hours for people to hand embroider this whole thing so I have not rewind yet because it seems like a lot a lot like I can't really go down to the grocery store in this however maybe I will one day maybe I'll feel really extra about my life you know clueless there was this moment where Alicia Silverstone cher is getting robbed and the robber says okay get on the floor and she's like oh my god no this is an Alaia and he's like a water it's an Alaia a really important designer and so I found this vintage Alaia so this is a woman's piece it is tiny I have not worn it yeah I got it about six months ago and I'm waiting for the right kind of occasion to wear it on a red car because it's definitely extra usually when I'm trying to put it on my husband has to come over and push my ribs in so I can close it okay so it's very like 80s oh my god I put on some timber Wow we're gonna break what we call the fourth wall which means you guys and I I'm gonna bring in a lovely young man who's producing this to help bring my rib Center this is Ross he's lovely hair star the other way okay Thank You Ross I am breathing in so hard but do you see that shape it creates my god that's good I'm very happy about hmm I love the dark word I love the wallpaper we have a lot of wallpaper in the house war people is actually very efficiently English we don't have a lot of paint in our homes because it's actually a lot colder in England than it is here and so to warm up the house you usually have wallpaper and it just feels a lot cozier what I love about the closet is that there is so much space in here behind all these hanging clothes there are more shelves well the thing that was most excited about is a room for shoes I have a problem this is only about half of my Footwear I've got some more there some boots there you may see that I'm obsessed with white Footwear I have been since I was 15 I talk about it on queer I constantly I always give somebody a white pair of sneakers it just goes with everything over the last year or two I've become a lot more obsessed with heels and so I have I have a lot of heels that released a couple of inches high and my show queer I everybody's over 6 feet tall and then there's chromo who's at 6 5 can make this very clear and I want to set the record straight once and for all I am 5 9 I am an average-sized human human man that's all and then I love the mirrored wall because it makes the space look so much larger and there isn't room in the closet for a mirror for me to see myself and so this offers me a space to check myself out when I'm fully dressed because of the fact that I truly have run out of space in this closet we are now turning our basement into a walk-in closet a fully functioning closet as I want to show you that it's not done yet brace yourselves it's terrifying first things first you're gonna back up slightly this is an archway that was the original archway of the basement they added this doorway which I don't want because it doesn't time with the rest of the house we're gonna get rid of that and make this an archway the same as the rest of the house this is the basement right now this is generally what the the household like before we moved in this in my opinion is going to be the most beautiful closet you have ever seen in your entire life I've designed it myself this is gonna be mostly papered it's gonna be real quirky desk or draw situation in the center this is going to be I don't wanna give too much away but it's gonna be or force you war and then all of this is gonna have hanging space on the side that's gonna have hanging space in there we're gonna knock out this Center wall and there's going to be a bed that is encased in incredible hanging closet so I can look Cherie eight and just enjoy the splendors of my closet my husband I assume is not gonna be down here with me he refuses to sleep downstairs I don't care that guess this is where we divorce and I separate and move downstairs and do my closet and I choose clothes over my husband [Music] thank you so much for taking a tour around my house but I'm gonna kick you out I've got to get ready for my next fight so see you all right [Music] you

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Length: 17min 22sec (1042 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 30 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/bluekudu]

Some Highlights:

• The Guest Room Rocking Chair: "So, this rocking chair I love very much, hopefully I will be a father one day, and I wanted something cute and comfortable that would fit in with the house, that I could rock my baby to sleep in..."

• The Candle Closet: "If I'm in a bad mood, which I rarely am, my husband knows I'm here, just sniffing in a closet."

• On Having a Small Bed: "People say 'All that house and you chose to get a small bed?' I like my husband! I want to be close to him!"

[u/Gianna-Sister]

Every time I watch something with Tan in it I just love him even more. Obsessed. And that closet 😍

[u/MatchaBun]

Tan and Rob live in my town and have a cute old house like the two I've lived in here!

[u/Karenena]

He, like the other QE Squad, is absolutely lovely!

[u/Mehzzi]

I love Tan so much

[u/thepuppycrew]

So uh, where do I find that tshirt?

[u/caioo08]

Hey fellas, I would like to ask you guys about Tan's hand tattoo. Is it henna or is it permanent? I have seen a few pictures but never really clear. tks

[u/Tsmeuoath]

I'm so jealous of his closet.