Inside Chloe Fineman’s Paris-Inspired New York Home

Hi, AD.

I've always wanted to do that.

I'm Chloe Fineman and this is Peach,

and welcome to our home.

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So the feeling I want when people enter this apartment

is rich.

This is a rental.

I don't think AD's ever done a rental,

but I wouldn't say I'm rich,

but I would say I have very expensive taste.

Succumb to France, that's where we are.

My sister made this like incredible painting,

but this matches this rug that I got from ABC Carpet,

which is my favorite place in New York.

I've been going there almost 20 years, which is crazy.

This is a chair that I saw on Instagram several years ago

and I messaged the woman in Rhode Island

and was like, How do I get this?

And then she made it for me.

This is a regrets-y, but now I'm trying not to regret it.

It looked very different on Etsy

and then it's like painted.

But it looks really expensive from afar.

But close up, it's like I think this woman took puffy paint

and stencils and tried to say this was

like an Italian antique pillow.

Brick is huge. Brick is huge in New York.

I live for brick. The brick is lit.

There's just something about like brick

and brick colors.

To find this apartment

and every apartment I've ever lived in,

search brick on Craigslist.

You just put in like brick one bedroom.

What I love about it is I really have like a kink

for crown molding.

Hundreds of people applied to live here

and I wrote basically a love letter about the crown molding

and also that I was conceived on this block.

Turns out I wasn't conceived,

but my parents did live here in the seventies.

So hey, that's cool.

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Here we are. There's like lamps galore.

Lamp, lamp, lamp.

But there's no ceiling light,

which I guess, back in the day,

people felt that overhead lighting was unflattering

'cause you couldn't get Botox

and all the fun little secret things we do these days.

This I love.

She's got indented nipples,

which I had as a child, fun fact.

And I relate to her.

She doesn't have a name, but it was cool.

I got this from Pearson Ward

and you could choose if you wanted like cold or indented.

I went with indented.

Here is where I keep my SNL badge

that you actually need at all times.

I've lost...five or six of these

and yet I still have the same photo.

This was like my first day of work

and ya girl looks terrified.

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I procrastinate with interior decorating,

which is about the whitest woman thing I've ever said

in my life.

I don't know where it comes from.

It's just sort of like calms me down.

It's a problem, like it's a full blown problem.

And I will say prior

to doing this Architectural Digest video,

this chair was about seven different chairs.

Here's my thing, I have like a major velvet problem.

When my boyfriend and I started dating

and I moved into his house in LA,

he was like, You get one velvet and one gold.

And so in this apartment everything's velvet

and everything's gold because it's mine.

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Come on, let's go into this sitting room.

Initially, this was a dining room.

I had this idea that it would be like Le Pain Quotidien

with like a big wood table,

and people would gather and chat and write.

And then in the first year I lived here,

we had one dinner party because the dog is bad.

This is a monoprint that my sister Emma made.

She basically gave me a bunch of pieces of paper.

So I found this guy down the street in the West Village

and for 45 minutes every morning for the past two weeks,

we would like re-pin everything.

And let me tell you, lining up tits with a stranger

is really a weird way to spend your morning.

Multiple times he asked if it was me.

But I really think it's beautiful

and the tits aren't fully aligned,

but God damn it, did I try.

I won't talk about the private part,

but you can zoom in on that.

Yeah, my sister drew some pubes. We're modern women.

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I saw this apricot couch and I had to have it.

I just love the color of this couch.

And I love this tiger pillow.

These pillows over there are from Pearson Ward.

I have like a huge pillow addiction with them.

Tassels, that's my other thing. I like tassels.

Tassel chair, velvet.

I like France. I'm not French.

I like England. I'm not English.

But I like to pretend I'm in a hotel,

that's like my whole goal.

I call this the Chlotel. Gross. Sue me.

People lately have been like, Wow, it's like Soho home.

Chlo-Ho home.

Obviously this is a deeply feminine space.

My boyfriend came home one day and the walls were pink

and he didn't really have a choice about it.

And yeah, I did it in a work week 'cause I'm bad with time.

It was a whole to do with this living room.

Mikey Day at work makes fun of me

'cause right before a table read,

I picked up the phone and was like Ugh, and then hung up

and was like My painters canceled.

Which is humiliating.

And at work, oftentimes, he'll be like,

Hi, my painters canceled.

And I just like to think that I'm a like a woman

in Big Little Lies sometimes and these are my problems.

This chair is my pride and joy. There's two.

It's not quite velvet, it's mohair,

which is a very different thing,

you know, as a velvet lover.

If you come in close there's like little flecks of pink.

I think these are vintage chairs that were reupholstered.

And honey, I'm horny for them. Horny.

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Now I could have lied and gotten a ton of books

for my bookshelf, but you know what?

I really don't read.

So this is my bug collection.

I did go to a bug fair in LA and curate this box.

This is a butterfly that I've had

ever since I was a small child.

Technically, it's a moth.

This was like a really cool Hanukkah present I got one year

'cause I am into like dead bugs.

And then down here, this wasn't me,

this I truly stole from work.

This is my Princess Peach ring.

Sorry, Jill. I took it.

Living in New York now is very different

than when I was at NYU.

I will say I used to walk along this block and be like,

One day, one day.

So I'm really living an NYU dream being back in the Village.

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So this is my bedroom.

As you can see, it really just fits a bed,

which is like very, very New York.

Again, this like beautiful rug is from ABC.

This lamp I got and it was about this big in the picture

and then it showed up

and it looks like it's from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I truly painted this so recently.

I just got really sick of the white bedroom.

Basically like if you're on your phone and you're scrolling,

all these bedrooms have this like linen color.

And I was like, I just wanna be like everybody else.

I just wanna have a linen bed

and I wanna feel like I'm in England a bit.

Which I do feel I've achieved.

This is, Jake Arnold has like a furniture collection

and I love this so much.

Again, Pearson Ward, Pearson Ward, Pearson Ward.

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Ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore.

Ah. So this is my bathroom.

There was this original blue tile

and then I painted it recently.

Another painting of my sister's.

The coolest part is this chandelier I got in Cleveland

while I was doing White Noise.

And this was $100. That's crazy.

And the coolest part is I put things on a dimmer

and then I can take my beautiful bath.

These towels are my favorite thing in the world.

I got rid of every towel I've ever owned

and just do these Bathing Culture towels.

They dry your body. They're like a cloud.

They're huge. You can take them to the beach.

And they just remind me of Northern California

where I'm from.

I love color, obviously.

And as soon as I moved to New York, being from California,

it's like everyone's in like black and blue

and like all this stuff.

And I've always just, God, look at me.

Look at this. This is horrible.

This is not what I wanted to become.

Any hippie doodle rainbow stuff really helps me out.

Oh and the toilet's clean. Let's continue.

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Okay, now we go into the kitchen.

But you can only really look this way

'cause it's a kitchen and it's where I keep my mess.

I don't bake.

True story. I use my oven to store wigs.

My kinks are brick and wigs and velvet.

That's about me. And dead bugs.

This is like the coolest wig.

I mean I call her Sex.

I definitely, when I was at the Groundlings,

tried to make this into like a woman

who really was into thruples.

Didn't quite make it.

Limes. I love limes.

I keep them in my house all the time.

Just like beautiful.

And I just have limes everywhere.

Just limes, lime, love limes.

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This is the section we didn't quite get to.

This is kind of how the kitchen always is.

Like everything looks like a magazine and like so chic

and amazing and then everything gets dumped in the kitchen.

'cause like I'm a normal person.

I don't really live like that.

I'm just like lounging in filthy sweatpants

in this like Parisian castle.

And I have all that skincare you saw in the bathroom,

I forget to do it, I really do.

So my new solution is I put it by the sink.

So I got this Tata Harper. This is great.

It removes makeup.

And then like, what is it?

This is like smoothies I forgot to drink.

Oh no. And then this.

What even is, oh, my old wallet.

But yeah, this is the real me.

I can't even close it.

Okay, let's continue.

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Bye, AD. Thank you for stopping by.

[door squeaking]

The oldest door in New York.

[beep]

Hi, AD. Hi, AD. Hi, AD.

Oh, God.