Photo by: Jim McHugh Architectural Digest: Rob Lowe, November 2010- Like a great relationship, a great house is more than the sum of its parts. And so it is with Sheryl and Rob Lowe’s sweeping 20-room Georgian-style home, nestled on four exquisitely landscaped acres near Santa Barbara. “I’ve always been drawn to a historic, East Coast American aesthetic,†says the actor, a Virginia native. “But a house also has to be comfortable, able to withstand the simultaneous traffic of teenagers playing football on the lawn, barbecuing on the patio, me slipping off to write. Our challenge was extrapolating our views on how to live our lives and raise our children into what we need in a home. Working in TV and film, my strengths are composition and sight line, while Sheryl works great spatially. When it comes to design, she’s as good as it gets.â€