Busy Phillips Chats Vintage Finds and Charity Sales

By Rebecca Silverstein

We always knew that Busy Phillips was a doting mother and hysterically funny actress, but we never thought of her as a design enthusiast. Alas, we were wrong. Busy and her "Cougar Town" co-star Courteney Cox are teaming up with home-decor flash-sale site One Kings Lane for a specially curated sale of vintage home items, including items from their very own homes. All proceeds from the sale, which launches tonight, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m. PT, 9 p.m. ET, will benefit L.A. children's nonprofit The Art of Elysium. Read on as we chat with Busy about vintage shopping, what she's learned from her house-flipping co-star and why she hasn't let motherhood change her decorating style.

WW: What is your home-decor style?

BP: It's a bit eclectic. My husband and I have been really conscious of not only being able to blend our styles but also having a nice balance in the house between vintage, antique and modern. Even though we live in a Spanish-Mediterranean-style home that was built in 1923, we just didn't want to go over-the-top Spanish with the interior. We have a 1960s Italian chandelier, but we also have a nod to the Hollywood regency style a little bit too. We just try to make it all flow.

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WW: Courteney Cox used to flip houses. Has she ever given you a really great tip about decorating?

BP: Courteney is so incredible. She has impeccable taste -- anyone who spends some time with her will tell you that. There haven't been any specific tips [she's given me], so it's more just by osmosis. By just being in her spaces and spending some time with her, you really get a chance to see how she so perfectly is able to blend different styles and bring in her fantastic taste in everything that she does. When we started doing "Cougar Town," they were constructing her Malibu home that she now lives in, so we got to see that process with her.

WW: Did having your daughter, Birdie, change your style at all?

BP: No, I don't believe in it.

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WW: Has she ever broken anything vintage?

BP: Things are things, and people are people. So while we haven't had an incident of something antique or valuable being broken, if something antique or valuable were to be broken, it would be a bummer for five seconds, but it's not that big of a deal ultimately. When she was a baby we put the really fragile things up on high shelves. You teach your kid very early on, "One finger. You touch it with one finger." That was our whole thing. She's great. She has fragile, beautiful things in her room too, and she's very careful with those things.