Step Inside Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brents Freshly Renovated Fifth Avenue Family Home
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The key is to keep the color palette limited throughout the house and to choose a unifying pattern or shape, like the curve of a sofa or chair. Additionally, homeowners will find it easier to mix time periods by matching wood types or keeping shades similar. They can do this by thrifting pieces and applying gel stains to give all the furniture a concise look .
Domino claims Brent swears by braided straw pendants he found on Etsy, saying he uses them in their home, both indoors and outdoor. While mirrors bounce light and add an artistic flair, they're also a great way to warm up an industrial or cold space. The couple used mirrors all over their house as eye-catching design points, such as this art deco mirror that sits over the fireplace in their bedroom sitting room.
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In all his homes, he has kept trinkets from his travels, picture frames and family photos, and collectible prints from his former partner Fernando Bengoechea. Because the home has an industrial feel and a clear railing, adding a natural bookcase was the couple's way of warming up the central living room while also providing a space for their cherished trinkets. Both Brent and Berkus have an extensive collection of design books showcased on the warm oak shelves. Brent tells Marie Clairethe books are special to him because he and Berkus stayed up until four in the morning on one of their first dates talking about them. The 30-foot bookcase also holds a variety of pictures, which Berkus told Architectural Digest are equally as near-and-dear to them. "I didn't want to live without those picture frames — they've been in every home I've lived in for the past 15 years."
The home feels luxe yet cozy — something the designers say it did not convey when they first bought it. They worked together to add their own flair and "gave it some soul again," says Brent. The design experts, who began dating and started their life together in New York, say they decided to move West after Berkus's father died, to be closer to his family in Southern California. "One thing I can promise you is that I will never again tell a publication that a house is my 'forever home," Berkus, 48, says, in a story about their newest place, a West Village townhouse, in the magazine's May issue. Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, married designers with two children, are all about the heart of a home.
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Besides, he reasoned, even the duplex’s flaws had a certain amount of character. Says Berkus, “I like things that look like they have a story to tell,” a philosophy he explores in a new collection of furnishings for Target and in The Things That Matter, a style monograph being published this fall by Spiegel & Grau. If fans want to incorporate similar ideas into their own design, Polished Habitatsays it doesn't have to be as intimidating as it looks. While Brent and Berkus have their home centered around their kitchen, not many people have the luxury of building their space from the ground up. However, many tricks can still be used to make a space feel seamless, no matter the focal point.
The apartment’s walls, meanwhile, were covered with either grass cloth or fresh coats of paint. The staircase, previously a treacherous climb owing to its lack of a railing, was finessed into a dramatic focal point with the addition of a sinuous steel banister. This month, Berkus and Brent listed their one-bedroom unit at 2 E. 12th St., set inside a 19th-century townhouse, for $800,000 with Core’s Emily Beare, Kiana Dunn and Beth Doud. Apparatus Cloud Pendants; Louis XVI–style bed and nightstand; vintage folding screen in a Rose Tarlow Melrose House linen; carpet by Athena Calderone for Beni Rugs. According to The Spruce, mixing different time periods is easier than homeowners might think.
"I didn't want my experience in the tsunami to deprive our family," the designer explains in the October issue of Elle Decor
That very philosophy formed the basis of their furniture collection, in collaboration with Living Spaces. "We want people to tell their own stories in the home," Berkus tells MyDomaine. "We're not dictatorial in terms of what we think anyone else should be living with." As the designer explains, “Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don’t feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.” For him, home also seems to mean a group of discrete interiors imbued with exceptional functionality.
Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, designer couple and hosts of TLC Nate & Jeremiah by Design, have sold their West Village townhouse after just two years of residency, the New York Post reports. The four bedroom, four and a half bathroom was sold for $13.5 million in an off market deal, a substantial increase from the $9.75 million they paid back in 2019. They missed the energy and diversity of New York, and thought it would be a better place to raise their two children, Poppy, 5, and Oskar, 2. "I realized that Poppy talked to the same 11 people every day," Brent added of their routine L.A. We continue chatting through design styles we admire, and Berkus waxes lyrical on his "mad respect" for textile designers like Lisa Fine, Carolina Irving, Penny Morrison, and a love of embroidery or block printing out of the old French houses. Seeing how different they both are in their work and what drives them as creatives suggests that maybe opposites really do attract.
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The family of four split their time between the Montauk beach house and the West Village townhouse throughout the pandemic. There’s also a double-height white oak book case which had to be bolted to an exterior wall, along with a full-floor main bedroom, a wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a roof garden. In early 2014, they were featured in clothier Banana Republic's "True Outfitters" ads in InStyle and Rolling Stone, among other magazines. The New York Times noted they were the first same-sex couple to be featured in ads for the magazines. Their Manhattan apartment was featured in the September 2015 issue of Architectural Digest magazine, where Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent appeared on the cover with their daughter Poppy.
Also in the parlor is a 1940's armchair and shearling-covered sofa surrounding a 1960s cocktail table by Diego Giacometti and a painting by James HD Brown . If fans want to replicate the look in their own space, they can utilize a jute rug, which brings warm tones into the industrial glass finish of Burkus and Brent's home. The designers also hang mirrors of various shapes and styles at different heights, which not only reflect light and make the space feel cozy, but also add an artistic element. When plotting their return to NYC, the AD100 talents tried contacting the original Fifth Avenue buyers to see if they might possibly be interested in selling. Berkus, who describes himself as someone who philosophically “doesn’t hold on to real estate”, was at peace.
They are madly in love with each other and their children, and it's humbling to be in the company of two people who seem to have nothing to hide, who aren't afraid to stand in their true selves and ditch their glossy identities to bare it all for the world to see. That old air travel adage to put your own oxygen mask on first really rings true for Berkus. "I love that. I will maintain my own sense of self first so that I can be present and contribute in the way that I know I'm capable of." Putting yourself first also applies to their relationship and parenting style. "Our relationship is what everything in this house is born from," he tells me. "If we're good, we're getting along, and we're open with one another and vulnerable with one another, the whole house runs beautifully." Berkus admits that he's better at finding that quote-unquote alone time than his husband.
Read the full story and see more photos in the October issue of Elle Decor, on newsstands now, or on elledecor.com. For PEOPLE’s 2019 Sexiest Man Alive issue in November, Brent gushed about Berkus, revealing when he finds his husband sexiest. A mix of old and new, it boasts an Italianite landmarked facade and an open, double-height parlor floor with a glass curtain wall. I’m excited to share Beautyrest® by Nate Berkus, a limited edition sleep collection.
In a bid to avoid the daily monotony of being stuck bumper-to-bumper on yet another California freeway, my eyes begin to glaze over like this city's signature smoggy haze, and my idle mind sinks back to my first encounter with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent. Traffic en-route to interior designers Berkus and Brent's house for a photoshoot that's been a year in the making. The brick-walled family room had been coated floor to ceiling in white paint. In addition to installing white-oak herringbone parquet, the designer brought depth to the area with 19th-century French iron shelving units from Pavilion Antiques and a 1950s French desk accented by vintage brass faux-bamboo chair. Berkus and Brent have built beautiful closets worthy of the title dressing room in all of their homes. In their New York townhouse, the couple had custom white cabinetry constructed to create a closet big enough for both of them.
You can also take down the doors from your existing cabinets for an even easier DIY, leaving builder-grade frames. From there, you can customize the backing with wallpaper, paint, or jute fabric. During their home tour, the couple revealed that they had to downsize their Los Angeles home before moving into their New York townhouse but ensured they took important pieces and decor with them. These important and nostalgic pieces now decorate the entire house.
As fate would have it, the new owners of their beloved Fifth Avenue apartment were ready to sell the place two years after the Brent-Berkus family moved back to the East Coast. Returning to the city with their children, Poppy, 7, and Oskar, 4, the pair moved into a townhouse in the West Village, but Brent tells AD that their Greenwich Village place was always "the one that got away." The pair gave PEOPLE an exclusive tour inside the completed casita in November, explaining, "We wanted to create a space where we could have, hopefully, friends and family eventually, and we did it in a very interesting way."
"We cross over when we can and when it's appropriate, whether it was the show or the furniture collection, and that's the fun stuff," he says. "That's when you just get to get in there and enjoy each other and create together, which we love to do." One thing Berkus credits his husband for is setting the tone of the house. As soon as he gets up each morning, Brent gets the environment ready for the kids with candles, music, and breakfast. "It changes the energy, and the kids just feel more relaxed, you know?" Berkus says smiling.
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