Cat House

So you think you can dance host cat deeley doesn’t just think she can decorate—she really can. In her boho-chic beverly hills home, champagne flows and guests can’t help but linger.

- David Keeps

Cat Deeley is a committed do-it herselfer. “I don’t have a fashion stylist, and I didn’t use an interior designer,” declares the Emmy-nominated host of Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, who then adds conspiratorially, “Do you think I have control issues?” She breaks into peals of laughter.

Whatever her issues may be, they sure don’t seem to be getting in her way. Wearing a paisley Topshop frock that looks like a psychedelic nightie, Deeley is padding around her Beverly Hills house barefoot, her toes painted a neon orange. “I’m going through a hippie chick phase,” says the leggy blonde. That certainly explains her outfit and the playful Morocco-a-go-go look of her three-bedroom hilltop home, which is filled with ethnic textiles, 1970's furniture, and even macramé.

Known for her fresh style sense, Deeley is a voracious shopper, snapping up finds in Los Angeles and New York as well as in London, where the British native still keeps a home. “It’s a very girlie two-bedroom flat that looks like Carrie Bradshaw’s place in Sex and the City,” she says. “And one bedroom is completely filled with clothes.”

When Deeley purchased her Southern California property 10 years ago, she had just gone through a breakup with a long-term boyfriend. She opted to look at her relocation to America as a new adventure. “Trying things you’re afraid of is very healthy,” she says. “Finding a home, driving a car on the other side of the road—all of that took my mind off the relationship.”