“We modify 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 ebook.
The 2 strategy their work with care, hand choosing each aspect themselves (and looking out excessive and low earlier than buying). Corbin could be discovered tearing down partitions when he’s not on set (his newest function is within the new Jon Hamm sequence Your Pals and Neighbors). And so they totally unpack and stay in every of their locations earlier than kissing them goodbye.
Primarily based 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 faculty on the East Coast. Their newest upstate venture, a historic farm compound, is newly available on the market. Be part of us for a tour.
Pictures courtesy of Amanda Pays (@amandapays) and The Lillie Ok. Workforce at 4 Seasons Sotheby’s Worldwide Actuality.
Above: Positioned in Germantown, New York, 1910 Barnswood sits on eight acres of farmland and has a cottage and large 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“It’s going to be an new outdated home,” says Amanda in season 7, episode 4 of the TV sequence In with the Outdated. “We’re actually turning a more recent home into an older home,” specifies Corbin. “Actual wooden, actual timbers, actual flooring.” The present is obtainable 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 ebook about their transforming adventures known as Open Home: listed below are their key suggestions plus a take a look at their place within the South of France.
