Lena Dunham reveals she's built house in her parents' BACKYARD - Daily Mail

Lena Dunham has revealed she's built a location '10 feet behind' her parents' location arsenic she seeks to onslaught the cleanable equilibrium betwixt 'dependence and solitude.'

Speaking to Architectural Digest, the Girls actress, 36, admitted she utilized to 'dread ever leaving' her puerility location increasing up, truthful has present ensured she ne'er has to with the operation of a one and a fractional chamber location successful Connecticut.

The prima said her ongoing emotion of the 'culture of her family' and her longing for a 'sense of permanence' amid the pandemic flitting betwixt London, Brooklyn and Manhattan led to her household opening operation connected her colorful caller home.

Lena's parents, creator Laurie Simmons, 73, and creator begetter Carroll Dunham, 72, spearheaded the project, with the star's location - The Carriage House - built connected the crippled of onshore wherever the erstwhile boarding schoolhouse household compound is.

Lena revealed her archetypal imaginativeness for her imagination location was to 'paint the location pinkish truthful it looks similar I unrecorded successful a strawberry' - an thought vetoed by her  designer David Bers and contractor Rick McCue.

Lena's begetter quipped the archetypal sketch of the location with a peaked extortion 'looked similar a kindergartner drew a house'  - with the star's location present boasting airy strawberry cement floors, turquoise parrot wallpaper successful the chamber and a customized coating array successful earthy wood and achromatic enamel.

The star, who has spoken openly astir her galore wellness conditions, besides elaborate however the location had been ergonomically adapted to assistance her get astir - portion adding the decor is inspired by her emotion languages of 'productivity and coziness.'

She said: 'David besides created a deceptively elemental and ergonomic plan that made maine feel, successful immoderate caller way, adult. He besides considered the challenges of my chronically sick body. 

'The debased staircase is cleanable for the days my arthritic hips springiness maine trouble, with a customized carved banister that is rounded similar the corners of a marshmallow, and the bathtub has a pull-up barroom successful lawsuit I get dizzy.

Lena was distant for overmuch of the operation owed to the pandemic, with her ailments making question difficult.

She described the affectional infinitesimal she returned to the location and saw however overmuch attraction and attraction had been paid to the decor.    

She said: 'I walked done the location successful awe, knowing that portion my stoic parent hadn’t been overtaken with emotion erstwhile we’d packed a moving truck, she had shown maine her deepest feelings by mounting up this house, moving her lean, silver-manicured fingers on each entity I’d hauled done my 35 years, showing maine conscionable however good she knew me.'

The interrogation comes 1 period aft a tweet signifier Lena drew a hailstorm of disapproval , arsenic the histrion made a petition connected the societal media tract that rubbed radical the incorrect way.

'When I go, I privation my casket to beryllium driven done the NYC pride parade with a plaque that reads “she wasn’t for everyone, but she *was* for us”- who tin arrange?' the Girls prima wrote.

A fig of users questioned precisely wherefore Dunham would beryllium honored by the LGBTQ community.

'And what person u ever done for the LGBTQ? Sis you ain’t nary cheery icon,' 1 idiosyncratic said, portion different said, 'Pride is for us, not gratifying the egos of consecutive radical who spot america arsenic accessories.'

One idiosyncratic said, 'It’s called cheery pridefulness not consecutive shame,' arsenic different added, 'girl, no. we don't assertion you similar that.'  

Said 1 user: 'Ummm…we’re going to pass, but acknowledgment for the offer?'

Some radical wondered wherefore Dunham assumed the LGBTQ assemblage would marque her a centerpiece of the Pride parade.

'You aren't really for anyone but older millennials who support getting kicked retired of societal spaces for saying slurs,' 1 idiosyncratic said, portion different added, 'Counterpoint: we thrust a photograph of you done the jersey enactment with a motion that says "we’re not definite who she is either."'

A fig of users posted memes joking that the Sharp Stick director-actress had enactment her ft successful her mouth, oregon was sportfishing for attraction with the tweet.

Said 1 user: 'She died arsenic she lived: successful a ploy for attraction that was arsenic puzzling arsenic it was desperate.'

The Golden Globe victor successful 2014 was awarded by the cheery advocacy radical Point Foundation with the Horizon Award, earmarked toward 'a young trailblazer who has taken a enactment relation arsenic an advocate' for the LGBTQ community, according to The Hollywood Reporter.