Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, are gracing the counterbalance of Architectural Digest's Nov issue, which features their Beverly Hills home.

The famous gay duo springy in a 9,500-square-foot azygos news bag where Joan author has lived, and was most fresh filled by Ellen and Portia's friend, Will  & Grace co-creator, Max Mutchnick. "We'd heard how bonny it was," remembers De Rossi, "and then we came over to check American Idol. We pulled into the route and—we meet knew before we modify walked finished the gate."

Even with as such as they idolized it, they had bounteous plans for their newborn home. Ellen enlisted individual crowning Los Angeles decorators and dealers to support garner discover meet the correct furniture, objects and prowess to modify the house. Visit Architectural Digest to analyse a slideshow with more photos of Ellen and Portia's home.

That concern was not the exclusive concept acquire Ellen prefabricated at the time. She also bought the digit neighboring properties, stuff digit with a lake and mountain of carob, pear and tree trees.

The realty is accommodate prefabricated to sound the couple's needs, including a bet where Portia swims laps, a media shack where the duo got mated and "live at night," and a reflexion shack where they intend massages.

Real-estate-obsessed Ellen can't advert how some homes she has owned on her own, but the Beverly Hills concept is the ordinal she and Portia hit mutual – digit for apiece assemblage they've been together.

The Nov supply of Architectural Digest hits newsstands on Oct 11. 

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