Inside Binging With Babish’s New Brooklyn Home & Studio | Open Door | Architectural Digest

welcome back to binging with babish for this week we're oh hey what's up architectural digest welcome to my home do you have a key how did you get it it doesn't matter i'm gonna get changed it's a little formal for showing you the house but why don't you meet me upstairs so i'll meet you around front okay i'm gonna get changed [Music] that's better come on in it's cold outside come on inside this is my house um welcome this is my first house i'm a first-time homeowner i moved here back in april of 2020. as you can see the place is really nicely designed and i didn't i didn't do that when i heard that you guys wanted to come through i immediately started watching a whole bunch of open door episodes um and i happened across the one with david harbour and he had this really like light sort of bohemian style a lot of plants a lot of light colors the things that i'm not normally very good at i like grays and blacks and i didn't want this to look too goth so uh i he mentioned his designer by name in the video kyle o'donnell of gramercy design and i called up kyle and uh he agreed to work with me and he's done an absolutely beautiful job here things that i never would think of or do myself thanks kyle it's a big house for a first house it's kind of crazy uh so i'm still i'm still getting used to it but um it's basically six levels the top four levels are my house and the bottom two levels are the studio uh where i make the show so we'll check those out later uh they're downstairs they're not as nice looking as this so lower your expectations this is the living room living room slash kitchen slash dining room this was literally barren like two weeks ago we did a lot of this last minute because we knew you guys were coming um so this for instance was not here this is a photograph from uh balthazar one of my favorite restaurants that was right around the corner from my old apartment this is where me and my girlfriend jess who's upstairs went on our third date so that's why we got the picture i don't know i i literally googled black and white french brasserie and this was the first image that came up and i thought it was so cool that we contacted the photographer and we got a print it's a fond memory because i hope i get to go back to balthazar one day because it was hard enough to get a reservation but the whole covid thing forget about it this is the living room we wanted to frame the television with plants we figured if we put enough plants around the tv it'd almost be like we weren't watching tv it'd be like the equivalent of reading a book if we watch a show you know what i mean it hasn't worked so far but it looks nice we like having plants around the tv got this nice floating sort of shelf here below it and an inappropriate cookbook put out just for you guys i put that away when my parents come to town then this is the kitchen this is my personal kitchen not where i make the show but uh where i myself cook for myself and my loved ones i never expected to have a kitchen like this in my life uh so i've tried to take as much advantage of it as i can i made these caramels yesterday would you like caramel come on yeah this is one of my favorite rooms in the house obviously because it is just such a cook's kitchen it really is laid out like beautifully if you like to cook like this island sink is so great one of the banes of my existence is filling pots with water you can see i love this this is one of my favorite things in the world that's how you fill a pot very easily pretend i didn't do that this is one of my favorite parts of the kitchen right here is this unbelievable pot rack it's um it takes like four months to get one of these pot racks and my designer kyle was insistent that we get one and i was like can we just get something off amazon that hangs on chains and costs 150 and he was like no you got to get this and we waited four months to get it and it's so gorgeous i just stare at it sometimes i have a cookware lime coming out soon and all the cookware on the bottom and every every piece essentially has the logo stamped into it which as you can see is my face and it has my glasses and i just lost my glasses and i was terrified that you know the logo was just going to be defunct uh but luckily because they stopped making these frames but luckily i found an old like contact cellar somewhere and i ordered like five pairs and they're all like my my superman backup glasses just in case uh so don't worry these aren't going anywhere so this is the bar we had this installed um i'm super super proud of it because it's this really cool antique mirror and then this beautiful beautiful marble and then i asked that they paint the interior uh vuve quico yellow and they put lights in there too so you can really see the verve oh there's my book how'd that get in there one of my favorite things about this kitchen is that it opens directly out into the backyard as you can see so i've got easy access to my grills my smoker uh and my lovely yard um but let's check that check that out later that's how we're gonna get down to the studio when we go upstairs first come on [Music] all right so in here we have jess's office this is jess hello she's got her cat it's a toulouse like a like a super villain and uh she's over it she's camera shy uh so this is your office this is my office you want to give them the tour sure don't mind the cat fur so i do all of my editing it's absolutely wonderful also i have my guitars uh all of my things it's just nice and cozy and yeah oh one really cool thing one of my favorite things in this room is the signed hamilton poster that andrew got for me of course i have to have the harry potter collection going back to the good old days it's got its own shelf as it should oh and this also functions as a cat room come here this is bucky full name buckwheat she's probably very scared right now but we found her outside the studio actually and we couldn't let her okay you can get down we couldn't let her live outside in the cold so we brought her in and yeah we did not intend to have three cats there's just supposed to be two but now uh now we're really a cat family that wouldn't trade buggy for the world or the other two or the other two yeah whatever their names are thank you very much for uh giving us a tour of your spot i'll let you get back to work thank you i have a lot to do and happy to have you guys bye so that's jess's office and then on the other side of the floor here is where i hang out love zach so uh this is the home theater this is uh something that i've always wanted my entire life since i was like eight years old i was like one day i want to have a home theater so we issued having a guest room so we don't have a guest room so if you want to come in and visit from out of town i'll put a blow-up mattress in here no problem so this is where i come to uh to play video games and blast movies and and lose a little bit a lot of people like to talk about winning all the time sometimes you got to lose a little bit so this is where i lose so just got me this for my birthday this is one of my most treasured possessions uh it is a recreation of the painting from the sopranos i love it so much and it's just it frames it it's the centerpiece of the whole room this theater has a beautiful southern exposure but that unfortunately means that it just gets blasted with a whole lot of sunlight so again another dream from when i was a child motorized curtains bond so normally when people come to my house i force them to watch spider-man and spider-verse but i think something more appropriate today would probably be like there's no tv what i don't watch tv of course i watch tv of course he watches steven you want to watch david harbor watch some netflix i watch some netflix let's do it there's a projector up there mine's bigger upstairs so this is the uh third floor this is mine jess's bedroom this bed and the uh the side tables were already here so we just kept those but everything else was brought in here by kyle and kristen you'll notice several copies of the connoisseur's cookbook around the house this is the official frasier cookbook both because i treasure it and because it's the gift that i've most received in my life people know i love frasier and speaking of fraser uh i was insistent that we get one of these this is an eems classic it is the same chair that was in frasier's apartment in the television sitcom frasier hey baby i hear the blues who call into salad scrambled eggs so here's the uh sort of walk-through closet uh these are floor pillows they weren't here this morning but i like them this is jess's side of the closet this is also jess's side of the closet this is a little bit of jess's side of the closet and this is my part of the closet uh this over here where i keep my watches and parfumri there we go cool wish we had smellovision because that's some nice stuff [Music] this is our bathroom it is the coolest bathroom i've ever had uh we're benin really uh i love this bathroom it's got like a rainfall shower head in here it's also got the horizontal sprayers you get so soaked in the shower it's crazy uh which is which is what i look for in a shower and this really really sweet super sink bathtub that's uh i've only taken one bath in successfully because it leaks it doesn't hold water very well we'll fix it eventually up here on the top floor we have the gym uh this is where i try to work off all the things that i cook downstairs uh or at least make my best effort which is generally not very good the bar the ballet bar is obviously for me you know i i um i don't i don't like to show off but i'm very flexible i'm kidding this is for jess she's a former professional dancer so she likes to do ballet bar workouts and we just do yoga and it's where we try to stay fit a little bit try emphasis on try [Music] why don't we go check out the backyard and then we'll see the studios downstairs cool come on so this is my back patio this is where i get my grilling and chilling done i've got a gas grill over here i've got a smoker over here traeger and then i've got a pizza oven down here uni is a sponsor and a friend um but also they make really good pizzas it's really nice to have an oven in the backyard that gets up to 932 degrees fahrenheit well let's go downstairs check out the rest of the backyard so this is the backyard proper this is a rather dead looking plant but the rest of the garden is very much alive uh it was we had landscaping done by matthew plasik he's a very very talented guy he came in here and he did all this in like two days like unbelievable i've never seen anybody work so efficiently and so beautifully on anything and he made this really nice little oasis that we have back here you'll notice that there's a little little smokey joe little barbecue grill here in the fire pit and the reason for that is that the home builders when they built this place they didn't put fire safe concrete in the fire pit they just put some bricks up and called it a fire pit so when we tried to have a fire in there it started exploding like the concrete was just shrapnel going everywhere and uh so now if we want to have a fire in here we have to put it in the grill but it's quite chilly out right now so i'd invite us to go inside and check out the studio follow me on my morning commute won't you [Music] so uh this is the office um also decorated by kyle i'm kidding that's kill me if i said that uh it's not been decorated it's a mess uh this is this is how i actually am this is the reality it's the mess uh this is my desk this is where i lay down the voiceover for the show and my wildly underpowered uh editing rig i gotta fix that should have done that before the ad shoot and this is the bcu studio this is studio a uh this is where i make my show um this is the original table i've had since almost the beginning of the show it's a booze block it's um on amazon for 300 this is the oldest tool that i probably have this is my stand mixer i've had this for going on 11 years now and you know kitchenaids are built to last so it's probably the oldest object that i own this is the bar which is normally very well stocked but uh we should probably be brand safe am i right this is the faux fireplace we had a fake fireplace here because this was you know supposed to be like a rental unit and they put some crappy electric fireplace in here we ripped it out and found a real original fireplace this building was built in 1901 so this guy is like over 100 years old which is pretty it just made like a dusty noise when i oh this is my twin viking oven i've always wanted to have two ovens and now i have three there's another one over here uh this is a storage rack with just absolutely anything on it um this is just where we shove stuff when we don't know where to put it so we have um candy pumpkins like seven different jiggers which um what does that say about me i have about as much of an organizational system as a child does with their toys um so that's how we have things laid out up here now if you want to see the real disaster we have to go down to studio b follow me won't you so this is studio b or at least it was uh because right now it is as you can see in shambles the hot water heater was installed legally in this house before we moved in uh so we've had to do massive repairs to try and fix it you can see there's a bunch of holes punched in the ceiling here uh because they've been trying to find where the problem is and they've discovered that the problem is everywhere but this normally is studio b this is where we have uh new creators some new faces joining the channel uh this is the sort of multi-purpose studio where people can come and make new cooking content for the channel normally it looks a lot nicer than this i promise the main difference with the kitchens that we have down here versus like my kitchen upstairs is that uh you know it's got to be sort of outward facing that's not usually a way that most home kitchens are designed we need to be able to cook and prep and just present facing outwards and we need to have the ovens in the back everything has to be sort of designed with filming in mind but i designed these spaces because i've been making the show for about five years now so i knew what i was looking for uh in production spaces and i knew what we were going to need and if you've seen you know my studio you've seen that i'm quite disorganized so i've made plenty of mistakes so we're learning as we go that's that's the youtube way we make mistakes and we show them and then we learn from them [Music] so i'm really happy you guys were able to come out and check out my house and the reason i wanted to show you is because everything you see here is a direct result of your support and you're watching my show and having lifted me up in the incredible way that you have uh you've given me my dream house my dream job my dream life and this was just an opportunity to show you what you've given me and say thank you from the bottom of my heart so thank you guys for watching thank you ad for coming out and uh hey you know come back anytime watch a movie watch spiderman

Channel: Architectural Digest

Views: 2,825,668

Rating: 4.9424648 out of 5

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Id: ua0-5FZ2Eww

Length: 15min 58sec (958 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 23 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/hedgehoger]

That is literally the coolest townhouse I've ever seen

[u/G00bre]

Boojee with babish

[u/macespadawan87]

Those are some swanky digs

And omg, Bucky’s gotten so big since her debut! Good to see she’s settled in so nicely.

[u/dogs_drink_coffee]

That's crazy. What a beautiful house, his quarantine isn't so bad at all. Dream house 10/10

[u/NameTak3r]

Wow, I knew he'd moved into a nice new house, but I didn't realize it was that nice

[u/RonaldRaygun2024]

Kind surprised Architectural Digest are doing this given they're owned by Condé Nast.

[u/shmeebz]

wonder how much it costs to hire an interior designer like that. I also really liked David Harbour's house with the light colors and plants

[u/UpNorthBear]

Am I the only one worried about no masks?

[u/JohnCoutu]

So I don't have to subscribed to his Patreon anymore I guess.