Returning home from holiday to middling temperatures and the constant threat of rain is never nice so when I saw Courtney Cox’s new Malibu home featured in Elle Decor I just had to share.

Designed to look like a modern barn .” The result, she says, is “very simple, with bronzed-steel trim, white walls, and wood floors. Nothing too cluttered and not a lot of fancy details.”

With such magnificent views of the ocean, who needs pattern and colour?

Designed by architect Michael Kovac and interior designer Trip Haenisch to look as if it had been sitting in the landscape forever…

and to be the perfect pad to host family get-togethers.

I love this lava-rock fire pit that juts out over the descent to the ocean. 

And isn’t this “hot-dog window” sheer genius?  From here, snacks and drinks can be served to guests gathered around the pool.

And yet more views of the ocean!

To see more pictures and read the story behind the design head over to Elle Decor.