Jennifer Garner's to die for house...

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Anonymous wrote:From the other post:
“ The inside is nice, in terms of windows, light and proportion. The decor leaves much to be desired. A blue sofa in a room with the same color blue rug and walls? Noooo. That's horrible, like a puke.
And the outside of the house (front and back) is just hideous, the proportions of window to wall are all wrong and it looks like some shack you'd find in yes, West Virginia. Yuk.

She is also as saccharine as it gets. Totally unbelievable. And I've met her, I know it’s an act.”


We need the tea why you say she wasn’t nice.

Honestly, their comment makes me think most people have trouble being nice to the PP. JG is only human.

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Anonymous wrote:Is she planning on moving? Most celebs only do these shoots when they are moving otherwise it is too much information and risks their privacy and safety.

It looks pretty staged too.

Very. Her children are 12, 15, and 18 according to google and yet they show childrens' bedrooms full of little kid toys.

They didn’t show any of the children’s bedrooms. They showed a basement where she had saved her kids favorite toys from when they were smaller. That’s a very normal thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Is she planning on moving? Most celebs only do these shoots when they are moving otherwise it is too much information and risks their privacy and safety.

It looks pretty staged too.

Very. Her children are 12, 15, and 18 according to google and yet they show childrens' bedrooms full of little kid toys.

They didn’t show any of the children’s bedrooms. They showed a basement where she had saved her kids favorite toys from when they were smaller. That’s a very normal thing.

Pp again to Note: it’s LA, so that’s probably not a basement, but it if it were on the East Coast, it would be.

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I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Fake stones, fake wood, fake glass, cheap cheap cheap. I don't know how this doesn't bother people. Instead of building a fake POS, use real materials and build something that someone actually thought about.

The exposed sprinkler heads popping through the beams would drive me crazy. The house might look nice at first pass but the use of materials, form and function look sloppy and amateurish for what I'm sure cost a LOT of money

I looked carefully at each pic and watched the video, and I don't see any sprinklers in the beams. Where do you see this?

Maybe they are little spotlights, who knows. They look like sprinkler heads to me. It's in the kitchen.

They are clearly lights, which anyone with eyes should be able to observe.

It's interesting to read people crapping all over this house only to realize they haven't spent three seconds looking at any of it. I'm sitting here thinking "is it really that bad. This poster seems to have some knowledge of construction." But alas, they are just a rando offering an uninformed opinion.

I wanted to like the house so much more than I did. I agree with the poster that said it looks very masculine. I love the wood, but I needed/wanted the rest of it to be lighter. I don't like the soapstone counters, but I loved the baking nook! Ditto on the personal touches like the art and stained glass windows. And I love the garden/outdoors. And she obviously loves it and made the right choices for her. The video was fun.

These little things sticking out of the fake ceiling beams are sprinkler heads. The fact that you can't tell tells us everything.

LOL - did you just go google this and grab a picture from a completely different website/set of photos to show us a fire protection sprinkler in her kitchen? I'm dying. Maybe get off the internet and touch grass.

I hate it when these "touch grass" posts. They really kill what is supposed to be a fun, lighthearted discussion about a celeb

NP reading through this, the the PP who said "The fact that you can't tell tells us everything." pretty much killed the lighthearted discussion.

Double post to add - automatic sprinkler system is required in the kitchen of a new build in California. Not sure how you can hide it, you would not recess sprinkler heads.

Recessed sprinkler heads are often used in higher end designs

Yes i have them in my home they are called concealed sprinklers. It looks like a flat white disk.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

Yes. You are right. It's an act. She's a serial cheater so at least she and Ben have that in common.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

Yes. You are right. It's an act. She's a serial cheater so at least she and Ben have that in common.

She comes off as childlike to me. It does remind me of some women I know who adopt sweetness and optimism as part of their "mom personality." I do think kids respond well to that when they are little but it's a little surprising to encounter in someone with teens. Especially divorced. Usually there's a pragmatism there that I just don't get from her in this video. Like when she's talking about how she imagined this perfect day in the great room with people playing games at the table while others sit talking around the fire and others are lounging on the sofa and how very occasionally that actually does happen and it's just "chef's kiss" -- it is endearing but also seems like a much younger person fantasizing about their dream family life. She says something similar about a reading nook and how her dream was for at some point her and her kids to snuggle in there and read all their favorite books from childhood and then it happened. Or when she's in the garden there's this very weird moment where she's like "I just love the idea that you can come out in the garden and find a snack!" because of the (recently planted and not very developed) fruit trees. Her delivery sounds like a 12 year old.

But then she talks about how she freaks out when her kids have friends over to play in the pool and it's hard to keep them from running all over the house soaking wet and that was super relatable. You can tell it's a genuine source of stress for her. But other than that moment she just seems unrealistically cute and sweet.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

Yes. You are right. It's an act. She's a serial cheater so at least she and Ben have that in common.

She comes off as childlike to me. It does remind me of some women I know who adopt sweetness and optimism as part of their "mom personality." I do think kids respond well to that when they are little but it's a little surprising to encounter in someone with teens. Especially divorced. Usually there's a pragmatism there that I just don't get from her in this video. Like when she's talking about how she imagined this perfect day in the great room with people playing games at the table while others sit talking around the fire and others are lounging on the sofa and how very occasionally that actually does happen and it's just "chef's kiss" -- it is endearing but also seems like a much younger person fantasizing about their dream family life. She says something similar about a reading nook and how her dream was for at some point her and her kids to snuggle in there and read all their favorite books from childhood and then it happened. Or when she's in the garden there's this very weird moment where she's like "I just love the idea that you can come out in the garden and find a snack!" because of the (recently planted and not very developed) fruit trees. Her delivery sounds like a 12 year old.

But then she talks about how she freaks out when her kids have friends over to play in the pool and it's hard to keep them from running all over the house soaking wet and that was super relatable. You can tell it's a genuine source of stress for her. But other than that moment she just seems unrealistically cute and sweet.

NP but I absolutely and truthfully love the idea that you can go out in the garden and find a snack, so I guess to each their own...

-Middle aged woman who experiences absolute joy picking tomatoes and peppers in my yard and eating/cooking with them. Gardening is my happy place.

Maybe I should move to a farm....

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Fake stones, fake wood, fake glass, cheap cheap cheap. I don't know how this doesn't bother people. Instead of building a fake POS, use real materials and build something that someone actually thought about.

The exposed sprinkler heads popping through the beams would drive me crazy. The house might look nice at first pass but the use of materials, form and function look sloppy and amateurish for what I'm sure cost a LOT of money

I looked carefully at each pic and watched the video, and I don't see any sprinklers in the beams. Where do you see this?

Maybe they are little spotlights, who knows. They look like sprinkler heads to me. It's in the kitchen.

They are clearly lights, which anyone with eyes should be able to observe.

It's interesting to read people crapping all over this house only to realize they haven't spent three seconds looking at any of it. I'm sitting here thinking "is it really that bad. This poster seems to have some knowledge of construction." But alas, they are just a rando offering an uninformed opinion.

I wanted to like the house so much more than I did. I agree with the poster that said it looks very masculine. I love the wood, but I needed/wanted the rest of it to be lighter. I don't like the soapstone counters, but I loved the baking nook! Ditto on the personal touches like the art and stained glass windows. And I love the garden/outdoors. And she obviously loves it and made the right choices for her. The video was fun.

These little things sticking out of the fake ceiling beams are sprinkler heads. The fact that you can't tell tells us everything.

LOL - did you just go google this and grab a picture from a completely different website/set of photos to show us a fire protection sprinkler in her kitchen? I'm dying. Maybe get off the internet and touch grass.

I hate it when these "touch grass" posts. They really kill what is supposed to be a fun, lighthearted discussion about a celeb

NP reading through this, the the PP who said "The fact that you can't tell tells us everything." pretty much killed the lighthearted discussion.

Double post to add - automatic sprinkler system is required in the kitchen of a new build in California. Not sure how you can hide it, you would not recess sprinkler heads.

Recessed sprinkler heads are often used in higher end designs

Yes i have them in my home they are called concealed sprinklers. It looks like a flat white disk.

She should have had them concealed with a fake wood grain to go along with her fake wood beams

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I like the house!

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Anonymous wrote:I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

Yes. You are right. It's an act. She's a serial cheater so at least she and Ben have that in common.

She comes off as childlike to me. It does remind me of some women I know who adopt sweetness and optimism as part of their "mom personality." I do think kids respond well to that when they are little but it's a little surprising to encounter in someone with teens. Especially divorced. Usually there's a pragmatism there that I just don't get from her in this video. Like when she's talking about how she imagined this perfect day in the great room with people playing games at the table while others sit talking around the fire and others are lounging on the sofa and how very occasionally that actually does happen and it's just "chef's kiss" -- it is endearing but also seems like a much younger person fantasizing about their dream family life. She says something similar about a reading nook and how her dream was for at some point her and her kids to snuggle in there and read all their favorite books from childhood and then it happened. Or when she's in the garden there's this very weird moment where she's like "I just love the idea that you can come out in the garden and find a snack!" because of the (recently planted and not very developed) fruit trees. Her delivery sounds like a 12 year old.

But then she talks about how she freaks out when her kids have friends over to play in the pool and it's hard to keep them from running all over the house soaking wet and that was super relatable. You can tell it's a genuine source of stress for her. But other than that moment she just seems unrealistically cute and sweet.

NP but I absolutely and truthfully love the idea that you can go out in the garden and find a snack, so I guess to each their own...

-Middle aged woman who experiences absolute joy picking tomatoes and peppers in my yard and eating/cooking with them. Gardening is my happy place.

Maybe I should move to a farm....

I suspect that’s who she is for the most part but I suspect she also has an edge. I don’t think those two things are incompatible. It’s also sort of become her brand to be the nice, relatable, homey star so she sells that image, but I don’t think she invented it out of wholeclorh. That probably is primarily who she is and what she likes.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the house (with a few nitpicky reservations) but I just watched the video and I have to wonder: is she truly that sweet and friendly IRL. There is zero edge there. I find it almost shocking in a middle aged woman with teenagers who has an ex husband with a drinking and philandering problem and who works in an industry that does not allow naïveté to survive long.

Not criticizing just in awe. Surely this is just her public face honed from years of interviews and media interactions. No one this age is this sweet right?

Yes. You are right. It's an act. She's a serial cheater so at least she and Ben have that in common.

She comes off as childlike to me. It does remind me of some women I know who adopt sweetness and optimism as part of their "mom personality." I do think kids respond well to that when they are little but it's a little surprising to encounter in someone with teens. Especially divorced. Usually there's a pragmatism there that I just don't get from her in this video. Like when she's talking about how she imagined this perfect day in the great room with people playing games at the table while others sit talking around the fire and others are lounging on the sofa and how very occasionally that actually does happen and it's just "chef's kiss" -- it is endearing but also seems like a much younger person fantasizing about their dream family life. She says something similar about a reading nook and how her dream was for at some point her and her kids to snuggle in there and read all their favorite books from childhood and then it happened. Or when she's in the garden there's this very weird moment where she's like "I just love the idea that you can come out in the garden and find a snack!" because of the (recently planted and not very developed) fruit trees. Her delivery sounds like a 12 year old.

But then she talks about how she freaks out when her kids have friends over to play in the pool and it's hard to keep them from running all over the house soaking wet and that was super relatable. You can tell it's a genuine source of stress for her. But other than that moment she just seems unrealistically cute and sweet.

NP but I absolutely and truthfully love the idea that you can go out in the garden and find a snack, so I guess to each their own...

-Middle aged woman who experiences absolute joy picking tomatoes and peppers in my yard and eating/cooking with them. Gardening is my happy place.

Maybe I should move to a farm....

I suspect that’s who she is for the most part but I suspect she also has an edge. I don’t think those two things are incompatible. It’s also sort of become her brand to be the nice, relatable, homey star so she sells that image, but I don’t think she invented it out of wholeclorh. That probably is primarily who she is and what she likes.

Serious question because I'm not familiar if the region identifies as southern: she's from West Virginia originally, right? Do people there take pride in having "southern manners" like people in southern states? It could be behavior like that?