All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Actor Walton Goggins and his wife, writer-director Nadia Conners, want to make one thing very clear about their decision to quit the West Coast and plant their family flag in the Hudson Valley. We werent running away from Los Angeles. We were running toward something, insists Goggins, a standout player in the third season of HBOs The White Lotus and an actor renowned for portraying villains and antiheroes with a certain sinister silkiness. We loved our home in LA. Its the city where our son, Augustus, was born and raised, the city where I became the person I always wanted to be, culturally, spiritually, not just career-wise, the Georgia-bred talent adds. Nevertheless, the siren call of the Hudson Valley would not be denied. Goggins and Conners had visited the area for years, renting homes and flirting with real estate listings, but it was the COVID pandemic that finally propelled them eastward in 2021. The pandemic opened windows of self-perception and possibility. It was an opportunity to do something different, not to start over from scratch but to change, to evolve, the actor explains.Nadia Conners and Walton Goggins in their Hudson Valley house. Vintage de Sede leather chairs occupy the sunroom.Conners seconds the notion. We marinated on this decision for years, but the pandemic was the real reckoning. The audacity of contemplating this move suddenly seemed less far-fetched, says the director of 2024s The Uninvited, who was raised in LA and Egypt. Still, it wasnt just the COVID upheaval or some abstract Washington Irving fever dream that ultimately sealed the deal. There was also a house, specifically a bewitching estate built in the style of a Scottish hunting lodge by a prominent entrepreneur and sportsman in the 1920s. I have an affinity for that time period, and when I saw the listing, I became obsessed, Goggins recalls. There was something incredibly seductive about the proposition. We were buying a feeling, an idea of a new way of life for our family. We were tapping into the generative idea of a place.Of course, when it comes to buying old houses, theres the inevitable moment when romance collides with reality. When we got here, we realized that the house hadnt been touched in a hundred years. Every system, every fixture, faucet, and fireplace was ready to fail or had already failed. But it was magic, Goggins remembers. Undeterred (albeit slightly intimidated) by the scope of work, the couple initially thought they could renovate the property in phases over time. That turned out to be a fantasy. Once you start tinkering with one part of the house, you understand its all connected. Basically, the first year we were here I took every part I was offered so we could afford to do everything that needed to be done, the actor says.A Danny Fox painting adorns Gogginss office, which is outfitted with vintage Togo seating by Michel Ducaroy and African stools from Galerie Half.Art: Danny FoxEarly in the process, Goggins and Conners brought in their friend Shawn Henderson to help with the interior architecture. Working closely with the homeowners, the AD100 designer essentially reconfigured the house to adapt the outmoded layout to the rhythms and rituals of contemporary life. He reorganized the entry sequence; expanded the kitchen; carved out a new primary suite; and converted three obsolete staff bedrooms into Gogginss home office. It was all about making the home more accommodating, reshaping it to the contours of their family life as discreetly and inconspicuously as possible, the designer notes. I should also say that Walton is more than a little design-obsessed. He dives deep into the details.A small army of artisans, technicians, and craftspeople set itself to the task of restoring life and functionality to the dilapidated structure while taking pains to preserve the timeworn texture of antique beams, floorboards, and fireplaces redolent of history. Some of that history is literally written on the walls of the houses original gun room in the form of signatures by notable guests of yesteryear, including the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Other regular visitors are said to have included celebrities on the order of Babe Ruth, Walt Disney, Joan Crawford, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. That same room features a hidden Prohibition-era bar simply labeled Linen Closet on the original floor plans.Walton Goggins and Lucy the black Labrador beside a Wes Lang artwork.Art: Wes LangA painting by Orlando Seale hangs above the fireplace in the gun room.Art: Orlando SealeThe deeply personal interior appointments create a provocative foil to the architecture, eschewing hackneyed signifiers of twee country charm and faded gentry in favor of bold contemporary artworks, polyglot treasures collected from around the globe, family keepsakes, and happily disconsonant furnishings such as the dining rooms Verner Panton shell hanging lamp. An inveterate hunter-gatherer, Goggins spent a year handpicking every vintage light fixture in the house. He drove six hours round trip to Long Island to secure the suite of groovy 1970s de Sede lounge chairs in the sunroom. If you buy the right sofa, you never have to buy another sofa again, Goggins opines, gladdening the hearts of professional decorators and design junkies alike.Design and art are two of the great love languages. Walt and I find each other in the things that inspire us, Conners says of the couples adventures in collecting. Walt doesnt buy a Porsche; he buys a Kerry James Marshall. Thats what hell stretch for, she adds. Goggins is quick to point out that his drive to acquire isnt about ego or resale. Im a poor kid from Georgia. How great is it to have our child grow up around art and music and great furniture and all these things that are so life-affirming and expansive, the actor says, concluding, This house has stimulated me in ways Ive never been stimulated before. Love language, indeed.Another painting by Danny Fox is installed in the living room. Furnishings include a vintage Illum Wikkels sofa (right), a Dan Pollock cocktail table, and an antique Persian rug.Walton Goggins and Nadia Connerss upstate abode is featured in ADs March issue. Never miss a story when you subscribe to AD.1/13Goggins found the French midcentury chairs at the Brimfield Flea Market in Massachusetts. Replacing the houses cedar shake roof was a major part of the renovation. The project team included general contractor Jim Romanchuk, David Romanchuk, landscape designer Wenonah Webster, Anthony Antil (gardener), David Savage (window restoration), Chris Gregory (stonework), Jake Saca (plumbing), Serge Bervy, Kevin Krein (roofing), Eddie Scott, Jock Winch, Jonathan Zeretsky, Susan Taylor, and Emily Ward. Furnishings for the project were gleaned from local resources including Quittner, The Red Chair, Regan & Smith Antiques, Arenskjold Antiques, and The Modern Exchange.2/13A Lumfardo sconce hangs above an antique farm sink in the mudroom.Art: Michael Ornstein3/13Artworks in the living room include a large abstract painting by Eugene Pera, a painting by David Bailin above the piano, and a portrait by Michael Ornstein.Art: Xander Berkeley4/13The kitchen cabinetry is painted in Farrow & Balls Pitch Black. Painting on counter by Xander Berkeley.5/13A French farm table is paired with a Verner Panton Capiz shell light in the dining room.Art: Wes Lang6/13Nadia Conners and Goggins in the dining room, which is centered on a French farm table and a Verner Panton capiz shell light, both from Obsolete. An artwork by Wes Lang surmounts the fireplace.Art: Wes Lang7/13Thonet bistro chairs pull up to a French farm table beneath a vintage pendant light of brass lotuses in the breakfast nook. Drawing by Wes Lang.8/13A Waterworks tub anchors the bath off the home office.9/13Goggins acquired the antique root table in the primary closet during one of his regular visits to the Brimfield flea market.10/13View of the primary bedroom.11/13A guest bedroom is outfitted with an Ersari rug from The Antique Knot, a Lumfardo sconce, and paintings by Tracy Nakayama.12/13View of the sunroom. David Savage of Savage Metal Restoration restored all the steel casement windows.13/13The house sits on more than 100 acres with expansive views of the Berkshires.