The Book Club | The House that Pinterest Built by Diane Keaton

Diane Keaton - actor, director, producer, and a recipient of an Academy Award, BAFTA, and two Golden Globes. Feeling slightly inadequate yet? Sorry to prick your bubble further, but she’s also a photographer, real estate developer and singer too – and now she’s giving our Book Club something to write about.

Are you guilty of falling into the Pinterest rabbit hole for hours on end, like us? What we love about this book is that it’s just that - a book. There’s something lovely about replacing clicks and swipes for real page turning. Yet it’s also very cool to think Pinterest was the inspiration behind Keaton’s 8,000sq ft home, from ideas to realisation in brick, stone, and wood.

Half of the book is dedicated to her carefully chosen pins, and the second part walks us through her home of 75,000 bricks plus an office in the backyard. Just a modest undertaking!

The book is an indulgent style guide for creating a home, a lively and thought provoking how-to. If you have a thing for typography, monochrome interiors and overflowing amounts of texture, you would ban coffee for this book. There is an insanely good use of black and white tonal images you’ll never tire of.

For an illustrious movie star, the book is brimming with ideas and photos from Keaton’s past homes and from those she admires. She’s not stopped at the big rooms either, she’s examined every little nook and corner, and we love that level of detailing – from pottery, art, book covers, light fittings and so on. 

 In her words; “Don't give up on yourself. So you make a mistake here and there; you do too much or you do too little. Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.”

 Check out her Pinterest boards, they’re so damn inspiring.