“We alter homes, not spouses,” actor/builder Corbin Bernsen likes to say. His associate, Amanda Pays, way back shifted her focus from performing to inside design and the 2 have been on a decades-long extreme-remodeling tear: in 36 years of marriage, they’ve flipped 30 properties. We’ve been avidly following alongside since that includes their work in our first e book.
The 2 strategy their initiatives with care and esprit de corp, hand selecting each component themselves (and looking excessive and low earlier than buying). Corbin may be discovered tearing down partitions when he’s not on set—his newest function is within the new Jon Hamm sequence Your Mates and Neighbors. They usually totally unpack and stay in every of their locations earlier than kissing them goodbye.
Based mostly in Los Angeles for a few years, Amanda and Corbin decamped for New York’s Hudson Valley in 2019 when the youngest of their 4 sons left for school on the East Coast. Their newest upstate venture, a historic farm compound, is newly in the marketplace. Be part of us for a tour.
Pictures courtesy of Amanda Pays (@amandapays) and The Lillie Okay. Workforce at 4 Seasons Sotheby’s Worldwide Actuality.
Above: Situated in Germantown, New York, 1910 Barnswood sits on eight acres of farmland and has a cottage and big barn behind the primary home. It was initially a part of the adjoining Livingston property, now Clermont Manor, a Nationwide Historic Landmark open as a museum and park with strolling trails.
“It’s going to be an new previous home,” says Amanda in season 7, episode 4 of the house enchancment tv sequence In with the Previous. “Actual wooden, actual timbers, actual flooring,” specified Corbin. “We’re actually turning a more recent home into an older home.” The present is offered on HBO and value watching to see the place because it was and all that went into its dramatic transformation.
Amanda and Corbin wrote a e book about their transforming adventures referred to as Open Home: listed below are a dozen of their key ideas plus a have a look at their place within the South of France.
