Joshua Jackson is making sure his daughter’s world is full of color.
The actor shared a glimpse of his 4-year-old daughter Juno’s new “rainbow room” — a technicolor playroom in the family’s temporary house — following the loss of their family home, Jackson’s childhood home, in the Los Angeles wildfires. In a post on Instagram, the Doctor Odyssey star, 46, explained why now is the perfect time to have brought his daughter’s rainbow room dream to fruition.
“For months before the fire, JR (Juno Rose) was on me to paint a rainbow room. I was working and I couldn’t quite figure out where to do it and yadda yadda… I didn’t do it. Which I now really regret,” Jackson began.
“So what you are seeing here is the newly unveiled rainbow room — huge thanks to my landlords for not batting an eye when I asked them if I could paint their walls ‘rainbow,’ ” Jackson continued. “Because while I can’t give her a new house (yet), we can certainly have some rainbows along the way.”
The playroom features each color of the rainbow painted in horizontal stripes along the walls, as well as a big pink alcove — “And pink. There needs to be pink,” Juno told her father, according to Jackson — and a sky-blue ceiling. The floor is comprised of pink, purple and green foam squares, which provide plenty of room for toys and play.
Jackson and Juno — who the actor shares with his ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith — were living in the actor’s childhood home when, in January, it burned down in the L.A. fires. Appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon in March, Jackson opened up about the house he lost and the home he’s envisioning for his daughter in the future.
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“In some ways, I’m actually excited for the opportunity [to rebuild] … that house has given me so much over the years, right?” Jackson said. “And I have loved it, and it has loved me. It has everything: the heartbreak, the baby, just life. All of life is in there — every floorboard is a piece of my story.”
“And I’m excited to build a new house that doesn’t have all of Daddy’s history in it — that is for her and I. So when she grows up, every floorboard has her history in it,” he continued. “And so in some ways, it’s not how I would have chosen to do a remodel, but in some ways I’m actually excited about the process.
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