Lena Dunham Showed Off Her New Home In Her Parent’s Connecticut Backyard For Architectural Digest

November 4, 2022 / Posted by:

For a woman who seems to have it all; fame, fortune, Taylor Swift as a bridesmaid, and a seemingly endless stream of blank checks to create whatever art may strike her fancy, Lena Dunham is missing one important thing that the rest of us take for granted, and that’s a shame. As such, Lena, a married, 36-year-old multimillionaire, is pleased as punch to show off the brand-new house her parents built for her in the backyard of their Connecticut estate. Lena didn’t even have to unpack; her mommy did it for her, “running her lean, silver-manicured fingers along every object.” She even gifted Lena with her “treasured collection of jadeite china.” Lena’s just a toothbrush away from actually having it all!

Lena may not have lifted a finger in the planning, construction, decorating, or furniture placement, but she did manage to pen a lengthy essay about it for Architectural Digest in which she assures the reader that even a married, 36-year-old multimillionaire like herself understands that when our daddy says no to painting your backyard playhouse pink and adding circular windows “SO IT LOOKS LIKE I LIVE IN A STRAWBERRY,” he really means no. In her essay, Lena calls her parents “artists,” but fails to call them very wealthy as she laments about the frequent moves they made between Manhattan and Brooklyn starting at age 13 straight through the day her mother spotted the house, “once a boarding school in a bucolic country village,” that Lena now presumably calls her inheritance. AD reports:

Still, I wanted permanence, a sense that I lived in a monument—if not to the family I hadn’t yet made, then to the one that had made me. And so, my family undertook their most maddening real estate project yet: building my house in their Connecticut backyard.

It was a veritable Suicide Squad of characters: our friend and longtime architect David Bers, a subtle genius with swagger to spare; Rick McCue, the contractor of few words but many skills who had brought all our other Connecticut dreams to fruition; my father, himself an aesthete with his own way of doing things, working with David and Rick to project-manage; my mother, using her passion for color, texture, and—as she calls them—objets. And me, pulling up the rear, a.k.a. sending helpful texts like “CAN WE PAINT THE HOUSE PINK AND ADD CIRCULAR WINDOWS SO IT LOOKS LIKE I LIVE IN A STRAWBERRY!?” (The answer was a firm no.)

David consulted with my father and Rick on the exact slice of land where my unimposing house—one and a half bedrooms, one full bath—would go. He then drew up plans for the place he called the Carriage House, a structure that would fit in with the white clapboard around us but subtly project some modernity. “It looks like a kindergartner drew a house,” my father said about the rectangle with a peaked roof. “And I mean that as a compliment.”

I’ve got to wonder— Are Lena’s parents also going to build her husband of one year, Luis Felber, an even smaller house behind hers? Here’s a look at what the parents of a married, 36-year-old multimillionaire did for their baby. And don’t worry. Lena assures us that the architect “considered the challenges of [her] chronically ill body” so the bathtub has a pull-up bar in case she “gets dizzy.

Lena says now that she’s been moved into her parent’s luxury ADU, when people ask her where she lives, she answers, “between London and Connecticut.” Don’t bother looking it up, it’s not on Google maps. Just know that it’s a magical place, far enough away from reality that it’s so completely detached, it has its own separate entrance!

Pic: Faye’s Vision/Cover Images

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