Amanda Pays and Corbin Bernsen say they’ve misplaced depend of the transforming tasks they’ve taken on collectively. However we’ve clocked no less than eight full home resuscitations within the final decade or so.
The couple met in 1988 as actors and early of their relationship, when Amanda really helpful a brand new search for Corbin’s bachelor pad, they found a shock calling as design collaborators. Amanda grew up in London the place she realized overhaul homes from her expertise agent father, and Corbin grew to become a talented carpenter beneath his godfather’s tutelage within the years earlier than making it in Hollywood. The 2 love giving homes delicate, cost-conscious makeovers; dwelling in them for a bit; after which transferring on.
They plan the areas collectively, Corbin takes on lots of the precise hands-on work, and Amanda orchestrates the ending particulars, from colour palettes to furnishings and coat hooks. They see partitions and take into consideration eradicating them: they like their rooms to stream. However little goes to waste of their tasks—they have been early adopters of the “restore, recycle, reuse” method.
In recent times, they’ve moved from Los Angeles, the place they raised their 4 sons, to New York’s Hudson Valley, the place they’ve been on a transforming tear. Additionally they have a household place within the South of France, which they are saying is the one spot they’ll by no means promote. A unifying ingredient is all of their tasks is a beckoning, timeless nation kitchen designed for cooking and gathering. Right now, we’re looking again at six of those spots
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A pair of toolshed tables from the Rose Bowl Flea Market kind the bottom of the island; it has a stainless-steel high and a brand new painted wooden shelf beneath: the entire thing, Amanda says, totaled $200. Admiring the range’s cement tiles? They’re from Badia Design, a North Hollywood Moroccan imports retailer. {Photograph} by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
