“We alter homes, not spouses,” actor/builder Corbin Bernsen likes to say. His accomplice, Amanda Pays, way back shifted her focus from appearing 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 method their initiatives with care and esprit de corp, hand selecting each factor themselves (and looking out excessive and low earlier than buying). Corbin will be discovered tearing down partitions when he’s not on set—his newest position is within the new Jon Hamm collection Your Associates and Neighbors. And so they absolutely unpack and dwell 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 school on the East Coast. Their newest upstate challenge, a historic farm compound, is newly in the marketplace. Be a part of us for a tour.

Images courtesy of Amanda Pays (@amandapays) and The Lillie Okay. Staff 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 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.

the house had received a lot of clunky tweaks over the years—the laundry room 18 — Above: The home had acquired a whole lot of clunky tweaks over time—the laundry room was proper off the entrance door. Amanda and Corbin stripped it down and got down to re-create its “easy, basic, Colonial-style” parts. “

“It’s going to be an new outdated home,” says Amanda in season 7, episode 4 of the house enchancment tv collection In with the Previous. “Actual wooden, actual timbers, actual flooring,” specified Corbin. “We’re actually turning a more moderen home into an older home.” The present is obtainable on HBO and price watching to see the place because it was and all that went into its dramatic transformation.

enter through the back door and there’s a custom built mudroom with 19 — Above: Enter via the again door and there’s a custom-built mudroom with a newly launched flagstone flooring and closet doorways fabricated from salvaged wooden. The partitions all through are completed with lime wash.

Amanda and Corbin wrote a ebook about their transforming adventures referred to as Open Home: listed below are a dozen of their key suggestions plus a have a look at their place within the South of France.