Soap star’s man cave becomes family hub
What do you do get when you mix a busy television career with four children under the age of 10? You get an actor who cherishes his family and his home and who, in the way that doting fathers do, builds his house around his children.
Which means that Joshua Morrow, who plays the handsome young scion Nicholas Newman in the top-rated daytime soap The Young and The Restless, has turned his man cave into a family cave.
Morrow was happy to chat during a recent interview in Vancouver about what makes his house a home.
First, he laughs, it’s “the heathens” — his three sons Cooper, 10, sevenyear-old Crew and four-year-old Cash — along with the most recent addition, his four-month-old daughter Charlie, who keep Morrow and his wife Tobe on their toes, adding up to a chaotic houseful in the Los Angeles home they recently bought, renovated and are set to move into later this month.
They took the house down to the studs, he says, and are converting what would be the main living room into a man cave/family room. Morrow says he doesn’t like rooms in houses that have “no purpose,” such as formal living rooms.
This will be the couple’s fifth house, and the previous one saw them convert the dining room into the man/ family cave, complete with big comfy couches and three big-screen televisions.
One of the flat screens was used by his sons for movies and games, while the other was for dad to watch sports (on mute, so as not to disturb the boys).
The family cave also doubles as Morrow’s office.
The renos, says Morrow, include a bedroom for each of the four children, although he says his youngest and oldest sons still want to share. As for Charlie, well, “she will be the queen of the castle.”