23Apr

Nate Berkus And Jeremiah Brent NYC Townhouse

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent living room with fireplace — A handsome 1940’s armchair dressed in black leather contrast the shearling-covered sofa.

After living in LA and having purchased and renovated what they called their forever home, Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent decided to call it a day and come back to New York City. They sold their nearly 9,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial home and purchased a townhouse in the West Village. According to the designer couple, the reason for this sudden change was Jeremiah’s longing for the urbanism of the City where the couple met. Their townhouse is featured in the current issue of AD. You can read more about it here.

04Mar

Nate Berkus and Jeremia Brent Design The Perfect Neutral Adobe

Nowadays there is a lot of love for neutral decor. Neutral interiors pop up daily and constantly in every Instagram feed. But not all neutral decor are created equal. This 1925 Tudor home designed by Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent proves a soft neutral palette can be warm and modern at the same time. The design couple transformed the formal, dark Tudor home into an open, bright and more modern one.

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, neutral decor living room

A neutral living room is brought to life with a mixture of materials and texture. A travertine cocktail table juxtaposes with linen-covered chairs and sofas.

20Mar

Design Style To Know: Minimalist Interior Design

milimalist interior design, living room JENGER

The term less is more is intuitively connected to minimalist interior design. The reason is that it is a style which is purely based on form and function. It’s a design concept that focuses on notable functional design while emphasizing on facilitating a more simple way of living. Minimalist design is an interior design style which people either hate or love; some find the style cold, simple or stark, others find it ideally soothing and relaxing. If you find yourself between the two polarized corners of the style, you can find ways to benefit from a simple more paired down interior design. By cutting down furniture, accessories, and trinkets, rooms in your home can turn into minimalist retreats ideal for unwinding, relaxing and recharging.

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18Dec

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Los Angeles Home

Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent are behaving a lot like Ellen and Portia lately. When they are not selling their homes, they are buying and renovating others. There must be something in the California water. By all means this isn’t a complain. We all benefit from these beautiful creations, including us, mere virtual consumers. Designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Los Angeles home is what dreams are made of… it’s what uplift spirits and.., you get the point. Nate Berkus’s refined eclecticism is on display in every room of the 9,000 square feet 1928 Spanish Colonial home. The landscaping is like something out of a fairy tail, encircled with stunning vegetation and a colonial courtyard. The couple told Architectural Digest that the house was in great shape when they bought it and as a result they didn’t have to do more than just decorate it. The decorating process required stripping, bleaching, and waxing mahogany paneling in the dining room, replacing fireplace mantels, replacing the kitchen fixtures and surfaces. The overall aesthetic of the design is a bit on the masculine side as Jeremiah prefers “We go for a very clean, masculine look. We don’t like to live with a lot of color,” Brent. If you haven’t watched the couple’s home renovations Amazon show Nate & Jeremiah by Design, make sure you do. It’s full of inspirations and design ideas. At the end of this post, you can watch the video where Nate and Jeremiah show their beautiful new home. But first, see below the beatutiful images of Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Los Angeles home.

The living room is furnished in European mid century pieces and objects.

13Nov

What Makes A Home Collected: 17 Ideal Collected-Homes

We often talk about different interior design styles like transitional, traditional, modern and so on or sometimes we even pop questions such as What makes a home chic?… But there is a distinct design aesthetic that stands alone on its own where every piece of furniture and object from different styles and times fits in harmoniously to create the perfect comfortable and elegant home. That is called a Collected-Home. When I think of this ideal approach, the first designer who comes to mind is Jacques Grange. He is a master at designing homes that appear to have been decorated throughout a lifetime of sophisticated good living. A Collected-home suggests its owner has had a life well lived, is an avid traveler and collector, has a independent mind with a personality of her own. These homes never look intentionally decorated, rather they look as a result of an accumulation of cherished objects, inherited valuable furniture and invested artwork chosen out of pure love by the family members… This is a style for those whose eyes have traveled enough to appreciate the beauty of a distinctly aesthetic which speaks for the story of its owner. Below are 17 collected rooms that shows us what makes a home collected.

Collected-homes, jacques grange AD via belle vivir Mix and Match Upholstery In this beautiful and elegant living room designed by Jacques Grange there is mixed and matched furniture juxtaposing with sculptural tables, brass floor lamp and dear objects throughout. There is however one common thread, literally, between the mix match furniture selection. Green and red quietly unifies the upholstery. Clever. via AD

Collected-homes, jacques grange architectural digest via belle vivir

In the library of the same home designed by Jacques Grange, currently featured in Architectural Digest, we see how a careful selection of collected furniture upholstered in different colors and patterns blend harmoniously together.