Lily Allen and David Harbour’s four-story brownstone in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, has hit the marketplace for $7.995 million – a symbolic closing act to their marriage, which Allen confirmed in her new album, ‘West Finish Woman’, final week.
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Initially bought in 2021 for $3.35 million, the 22-foot-wide townhouse underwent an intensive renovation led by designer Billy Cotton (who was a part of Wallpaper’s USA 300 in 2023 and just lately collaborated with Soane Britain) and architect Ben Bischoff of MADE. The result’s a putting mix of conventional English attraction and unapologetically eccentric maximalism.
Upon entry, company are greeted by a lounge wrapped in intricate Zuber wallpaper and anchored by a grand hearth. Glass doorways open onto a backyard full with a sauna and chilly plunge, whereas crown mouldings, bespoke lighting and layered textures stream into the Plain English kitchen, outfitted with an Officine Gullo vary, Ann Sacks tiles and a customized banquette.
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(Picture credit score: Hayley Ellen Day)
The first suite occupies a complete ground, swathed in additional Zuber prints and Pierre Frey carpeting, with a comfortable seating space, hearth and walk-in closets. The higher stage presents two visitor rooms, a skylit lounge and a house workplace; beneath, the backyard stage hosts one other visitor suite, powder room and household room.
(Picture credit score: Hayley Ellen Day)
(Picture credit score: Hayley Ellen Day)
The couple gave Architectural Digest a tour of their residence again in 2023, throughout which Harbour feedback on Allen’s ‘daring, foolish, enjoyable, eccentric’ style, in addition to expressing exasperation at her wilder decisions – tiger-stripe carpets, double-sided olive suede sofas, chandeliers suspended over clashing patterns. Cotton confirmed to AD that Allen was the artistic driving drive behind the house, saying, ‘Each time I attempted to make it calmer, she saved pushing for extra’.
(Picture credit score: Hayley Ellen Day)
(Picture credit score: Hayley Ellen Day)
That is the very property that the singer references in ‘West Finish Woman’s’ title track, saying: ‘So we went forward and we purchased it / Discovered ourselves a very good mortgage / Billy Cotton acquired sorted / All of the furnishings ordered / I might by no means afford this / You have been pushing it ahead / Made me really feel a bit awkward.’
The house’s asking worth – which is greater than double what the couple paid – speaks to each the surging Brooklyn market and the meticulous renovation. But for a lot of followers, it is value will lie much less in sq. footage than within the symbolism – of affection, artwork and heartbreak.
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