ZOOEY DESCHANEL DOMINO MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2009

Highlights from the story:

“It’s like a present to myself to have a room solely devoted to creative endeavors.” When Zooey Deschanel’s music hobby threatened to take over her whole house, she enlisted the help of decorator and former domino cover girl Ruthie Sommers to create a dedicated spot for her craft. The duo transformed a spare room into an elegant salon: creating a soundproof space that successfully displays her instruments and shows off Deschanel’s “retro-Hollywood-meets-Sgt. Pepper” style.

“It’s a nice, quiet place to write music, do a bit of paperwork and read,” says Deschanel of her new space, “It’s much easier when I have a place to stash things.”

And she already is getting a lot of use out of it: “I’m working with folk singer M. Ward on my second She & Him record. And in my latest movie—Yes Man with Jim Carrey—I collaborated on the soundtrack with my fictional band, which in real life is called Von Iva.”