John Legend and Chrissy Teigen renovated their stunning Beverly Hills residence to fit their growing family and shared a tour of their new digs with fans.
The Grammy winner, 44, and the model, 37, showed off their spacious family home, which was designed by architect and interior designer Jake Arnold, who also worked with Legend on his music studio.
The parents-of-four invited fans into their warm property for a new feature with Architectural Digest, which was unveiled on Tuesday.
‘We love how open it feels, and how it’s so connected to the outdoors,’ Legend said of the place, explaining that their last home was ‘darker and more cloistered, like a sanctuary.’
‘We were attracted to this place because of its lightness and airiness… We wanted to create something magical, especially for the kids.’
The couple, who married in 2013, were joined by their daughter Luna, 7, and Esti, 6 months, as well as son Miles, 5.
Their youngest son Wren, who was born via surrogate in June, was not present for the shoot.
Although Arnold is known for his earthy color palette, the couple said they urged him to change it up by adding splashes of color.
‘We like bright pops of color. We wanted to crazy it up a bit, to add a little funk,’ Teigen told the publication.
‘My challenge was to take this very contemporary, shiny new house and apply my philosophy to it — to make it inviting and livable, a version of what I do that speaks directly to their personalities,’ Arnold explained.
The couple happily showed off the residence in a YouTube video accompanying the magazine feature.
They started with the living room, which Chrissy called her ‘Instagram Story room.’
‘Everyone’s always like, “You never leave the couch,”‘ she joked in reference to the Pierre Yovanovitch oak sofa that faces a wall length window with a view of their outdoor pool.
‘We live here. We are actually in the living room quite a lot. We sit here and watch reality TV, we cook right there in the kitchen,’ Legend added of the living room.
Aside from the comfortable couch the living room also boasts a Vincenzo De Cotiis cocktail table, and a Dimorestudio floor lamp.
But despite the high-end furniture Chrissy shared that the home is ‘kid-proof.’
‘People are always scared to bring their kids over. They’re like, “No, they’re gonna to jump on everything.” I’m like, “Look at this, it’s chaos.”‘
The pair then moved onto their lavish kitchen, which the cookbook author dubbed the ‘heartbeat of our home.’
‘This is a fully functional, working kitchen,’ Teigen said of the space, from which they can also watch the living room TV, which is hidden away in a custom cabinet covered in a Jim Thompson fabric.
The sleek and open kitchen features slabs of calacatta macchia vecchia marble and four Miele ovens.
‘When we go to other people’s homes, we’re like, “Oh my God, you can tell when they don’t use it. We really use the s**t out of this kitchen.’
‘We are literally using all these things all the time,’ Legend stated, referring to their four ovens, microwave and espresso machine.
‘We’re doing big meals, having friends over. We have Thanksgiving here, Christmas here. We do everything. We always wanted to have a home where it would be like an open door for our friends and family.’
Chrissy added, ‘What we love about it too is it’s not really precious.’
The pair then showed off their piano bar, where Legend revealed he sometimes writes music, and where daughter Luna does her piano lessons.
During one sweet moment Luna even joined her father and watched him play the piano.
The musician also proudly showed off the custom wine glass Alison Berger chandelier in the room, which features lyrics from his early albums etched into the glass.
The room also has a shelf for the pair’s various awards, including John’s Grammy, Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards and Chrissy’s Glamour Woman of the Year, and Mac and Cheese award as well as her Glammy for ‘Best Chair Sitter.’
The duo also showed off their formal dining table, though they admitted they rarely use it.
Later on the couple migrated to Luna’s bedroom, which features a pink and purple color palette as well as a slide into a ball pit and a swinging couch.
‘How cool is this bedroom?’ Legend stated.
‘We just kind of gave Jake some vague notes about how we wanted the kids’ rooms to look, and when he came back with drawings of what they were actually going to look like, I was like, this is beyond anyone’s wildest dreams of what their bedroom should look like.’
Miles also appeared thrilled with his room, which features a Jeep-shaped bunkbed, a cave area with torches for reading, and a climbing wall.
The home also features a theater room with custom lounge seating, a spacious family room, and an arabescato rosa marble powder room with vintage sconces, with Chrissy quipping: ‘There’s no better place to take a s**t.’
During the tour the couple also ventured into their tranquil backyard featuring an infinity pool with a slide, an outdoor kitchen, a garden and a play structure for their children.
The couple’s main bedroom features earthy tones as well as a space with a couch and chairs where Chrissy welcomes her therapist twice a week to ‘talk about life.’
Interestingly enough, though the home originally boasted his and hers bathrooms and closets, Chrissy and John decided to merge the spaces together.
‘We like to be together, so the his-and-hers thing seemed wasteful,’ Legend stated, while Chrissy added, ‘We’re not an old-school Victorian couple that needs to dress separately and then present ourselves all done up.’
Chrissy also stated that the couple are ‘always open to a new house, or to changing the house we’re in.’
‘When she says we, she means she,’ Legend interjected. ‘But it’s true. We’re not afraid of switching things up.’
