Round September, when Chrissy Teigen and John Legend started posting Instagram Tales and footage from a rental house as an alternative of the seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom Beverly Hills mansion they’ve owned since 2016, “individuals actually knew it,” Teigen tells AD. What she means is that her 33 million plus Instagram followers observed instantly that her content material—which typically contains cooking tutorials, lovely moments together with her kids, Luna, 4, and Miles, 2, and comedic commentary—was now not happening in opposition to the backdrop of her Don Stewart–designed home, with its muted coloration palette, abundance of textures, and now well-known kitchen.
“I really feel like individuals bought to know us and our house and I feel lots of people will miss seeing us there,” says Legend. The couple first put the dwelling available on the market in August, decamping to a rental and buying a brand new place which they’re at the moment within the strategy of renovating. Regardless of earlier studies that the home bought shortly, it’s truly nonetheless available on the market for $22.495 million with Marshall Peck of Douglas Elliman. Legend confirms that they’re keen to barter the sale of the furnishings within the house, save for a sentimental desk and chandelier along with his music lyrics on it. And although they’re trying ahead to a brand new area after a tumultuous yr (in late September, they suffered the demise of their unborn son, Jack), they’re each unhappy to see a chapter shut with the sale of their memory-filled house.
Under, each the EGOT-winner and the Cravings cookbook creator reminisce about their former residence and inform AD how they’re designing their future.
Architectural Digest: Why did you determine to maneuver?
John Legend: We thought we have been going to have a brand new addition to our household earlier this yr, and so we have been pondering we wished extra bedrooms and extra dwelling area. And we nonetheless count on to develop our household within the close to future.
AD: Whenever you moved into the house in 2016, how did you place your stamp on it? What is going to the brand new proprietor be inheriting from you?
JL: There’s a lot that we modified from what we initially paid for. All the vibe of the home is totally different. The one factor we actually saved was the ground and the health club. The staircase we made right into a spiral staircase. The ceiling is a lovely hand carved southeast Asian ceiling. We modified all of the fireplaces. We simply made it hotter and extra earthy and in addition added, I feel, some actually cool Asian-inspired touches. Chrissy is happy with her heritage, and [our designer] Don Stewart is impressed by a few of the architectural thrives from southeast Asia and integrated it into the house in a lovely approach.