Property News · March 3, 2018

LA residential: how Sharon Horgan brought California glitz to her London home


The writer’s work means she spends much of her time in Los Angeles – so she and her husband installed a rose gold mirrored cube in their house in Hackney to nod to the city’s sunset skiesMarooned like a Tardis in the centre of Sharon Horgan and Jeremy Rainbird’s family home is a rose gold mirrored cube that straddles the front room and a kitchen extension at the back. Surely it is a magnet for fingerprints? “Absolutely,” says Rainbird. “It gets polished every day.” It contains a toilet, a larder and a cupboard for each member of the family: Rainbird, Horgan and their daughters Sadhbh, 14, and Amer, nine.The rose gold is a nod to the sunset skies of Los Angeles, where Rainbird and Horgan – whose TV writing credits include Catastrophe, Divorce and Motherland – have spent a good part of the past five years. Catastrophe was based on the couple’s unplanned pregnancy six months into their relationship. “We had a lot of discussions about the cube,” says Rainbird, 44. “Sharon said it looks like Stringfellows [nightclub]. But we love it.” Rainbird sold his advertising business in 2013, the year they bought their home. “That’s when Sharon’s career went bananas,” he says. “It’s just as well I’d stopped working, otherwise the family might have imploded.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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