La vie en pink

When visitors ask to use the loo at director David Kellogg’s Hidden Hills home, he sends them down the hall to “the pink bathroom on the right.” To that masterful understatement, Kellogg might be well-advised to add the words, “and brace yourself.”

If Baz Luhrmann were to film a musical homage to shade 211 C on the Pantone color index, the location scout could stop here. In this otherwise standard-issue powder room, floor, ceiling, walls, toilet, sink and medicine chest, not to mention every gasket, pipe, electrical outlet and strike plate, have been painted, glazed, powder-coated or dyed a mind-blowing hot pink. There’s even a wittily arrayed row of Pepto-Bismol bottles in the medicine cabinet as a coup de grace. “It’s the equivalent of diving into a pool, opening your eyes and being immmersed in aqua, only here it’s pink,” says architect Brian Alfred Murphy of BAM Construction/Design in Santa Monica, who dreamed up the scheme with Kellogg.

Why a pink powder room? “Bathrooms tend to be a little boring,” says Kellogg, whose projects include the feature film “Inspector Gadget” and numerous television commercials. The just-completed powder room caps an extensive home renovation undertaken by Kellogg and his wife last year. “I thought it would be fun to have a little Dr. Seuss at home,” he says.

Undeterred by the scarcity of hot-pink toilet-paper holders in the home decorator market, Murphy resourcefully powder-coated a hooded holder. “We considered dyeing the toilet paper,” says Murphy, “but we thought that might be going a little far.”

BAM Construction/Design, Santa Monica, (310) 459-0955, www.bamcdi.com.