Joel McHale House in Style

What do television success and a burgeoning film career get you? If you’re Joel McHale, it lands you a beautiful home in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles with interiors that make designers in the biz swoon. Read on to learn all the juicy details about Joel McHale’s career as an actor and comedian, as well as where he calls home when not captivating TV viewers.

Joel McHale TV Series

McHale received his first acting credits in 1996 with a Seattle-based skit and stand-up comedy TV series called Almost Live! After taking various character roles for eight years, from Diagnosis Murder to Will & Grace, he caught the world’s attention in 2004 as the quick-witted host of E! reality spoof The Soup. In this unconventional comedic TV series, McHale presents the most ridiculous TV clips of the week like a newscaster. Five years of crazy success with The Soup persuaded major network TV executives to tap McHale for his first lead role in a sit-com – Community on NBC (2009).

Ah yes, a typical Thursday night make-up touch up at #nbcCommunity pic.twitter.com/7vgN4E8M9G

— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) September 27, 2013

He plays the character of Jeff Winger, an obnoxious community college student who gets hired as a professor after graduation. As The Soup celebrated 200 episodes in October 2013, Community leaped into their 5th season (Joel McHale IMDB).

Joel McHale Movie Roles

For a guy like Joel McHale, riding of the laurels of two hit shows is not enough. He also stays active with stand-up comedy throughout the US, frequents the talk show circuits, writes and produces, and continues taking occasional film and TV roles. McHale’s stint on Sons of Anarchy (2012) gave him the opportunity to dabble into dramatic acting. Securing a lead role in Deliver Us from Evil (July 2014) is a sure sign of his bright future in film. In the supernatural thriller, McHale plays a New York City police officer alongside co-stars Olivia Munn and Eric Bana (Joel McHale IMDB).

Hollywood Hills Interiors

Joe McHale has a beautiful home to show for his success. He may seem as carefree as a bachelor, but the home he has provided for his family is no bachelor pad. If you have ever wondered what kind of home and interiors that would suit a funny guy like Joel McHale, wonder no more – here are the deets…

Joel McHale and his interior designer wife Sarah purchased a 1947 East Coast traditional for $1,880,000 in 2007 – during his third year of hosting The Soup – with plans to remodel. The home boasted four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room, and a few disconnected additions. The generous exterior space included bricked entertaining & gardens areas with a barbecue and a spa (Celebrity Detective). As an interior designer, Sarah McHale pounced on the opportunity to transform a home with floor plan complications (caused by the disconnected additions and split-levels) into a perfect fully-functioning space for her, Joel McHale, and their two sons Eddie and Isaac.

Part of my photographic art show. I call it–"Dogs waiting for some chicken & partial leg & shoe". It's a been long. pic.twitter.com/Icajc2H1Ij

— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) December 14, 2013

Joel and Sarah recruited the assistance of architectural and interior designer Elizabeth Gordon to spearhead the redesign with Sarah’s collaboration. The design duo had previously worked together under LA design phenom Kelly Wearstler and quickly devised a plan to coordinate and implement the transformation of the home’s interior and exterior spaces (Houzz). They expanded the home to 9,800 square feet, created an improved floor plan, and gave the space a strong design statement that hit all points: soft use of color, eclectic mixing of styles, connecting indoor with outdoor view of gardens through color and texture, and glam with just the right amount of informality.

Joel McHale House in Style

Joel McHale’s home redesign embodies the perfect use of regency, gilded accents, wallpaper treatments, and custom furniture and lighting designs, only achievable by incredibly talented interior designers. Anyone can throw together a bunch of glitzy décor and try to call it style, but it takes talent to show restraint when infusing glam into a family home environment. In the McHale home, the formal living room and dining room have a heightened glam factor, whereas the entertainment room, office, and other living areas show a more informal vibe with enough special elements to tie into the rest of the home. The formal living room is clearly the home’s featured room. Like many rooms with a fireplace, it is surrounded with a seating area. In the case of the McHale home, two modern sofas (one beige and one ivory) sit on either side of the hearth with an armchair at the end, grounded by a zebra cowhide rug and rectangular glass-top coffee table with faux bamboo frame. The gilded screens on either side of the fireplace wall speak to the golden starburst mirror placed above – in the center of the tray ceiling – surrounded by smoky blue wallpaper with gold leafy shoots (InStyle; December 2010).

Baltimore Luxury Homes

The McHale home is reminiscent of Maryland luxury homes in Anne Arundel county with vaulted ceilings, crown moldings, oversized picture-frame tile windows, and multiple fireplaces. Many of the homes have an East Coast or Cape Cod style and were built from 1930s-40s. These homes are made to entertain in style with private outdoor retreats and terraced gardens. Located near Severn River, they have quick access to the beach and the marina. For a McHale-inspired home in a more urban environment, the newer-built Baltimore luxury homes in the Anton North neighborhood in a Georgian style would offer the perfect fusion of traditional and modern.

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