Nancy Cartwright: The voice of Bart Simpson goes country in Northridge

The 1-acre property includes a gambrel-roofed red barn that serves as Cartwright’s garage.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Over the stone fireplace in the living room: a Semi-Normal Green-Lidded Fawn designed by Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

At the front of the house, a spacious sun room with French doors spills into the formal living room  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

With a Bart Simpson cooking jar looking on, Cartwright cooks up one of her favorites, chicken tortilla soup. The black soapstone countertop with a rich vein of green coordinates with a 1940s Wedgewood stove.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Indoor-outdoor to an extreme: a tree trunk in Cartwright’s kitchen.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright calls this piece in the dining room her “mayor chair.”  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright reads a book in the sitting area of... her bathroom. Cartwright jokes that the bathroom, “is bigger than some New York apartments.”  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright admits to splurges, such as a hand-painted secretary in her bedroom that she says cost in the $10,000 range.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright’s bedroom.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Daughter Lucy’s bedroom: A high ledge that once displayed Beanie Babies is now an artful clutter of empty wooden picture frames.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright records one of her many voices in her home studio. In addition to portraying Bart and four other “Simpsons” scamps, she does voices for “The Replacements” and “Betsy’s Kindergarten Adventures.”  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright plays billiards in the recreation room above her garage. Framed animation artwork covers the wall.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

In the playroom, her kids’ musical instruments look primed for an impromptu jam session. “I call it the monkey room,” Cartwright says, opening curtains printed with simians dressed in Edwardian finery.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

Cartwright’s guest house has been done up with Western cabin furnishings found at flea markets. Witness the cowboy boot chandelier.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)

The country vibe, in full effect in the garden.  (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)