"Singing about 381 Union Street, Allen explains: "Now I'm looking at houses with four or five floors / And you've found us a brownstone, said 'You want it? It's yours' / So we went ahead and we bought it / Found ourselves a good mortgage / Billy Cotton got sorted / All the furniture ordered / I could never afford this / You were pushing it forward / Made me feel a bit awkward.""
"Then, there's the 2023 home tour they gave Architectural Digest, which is cringe, in retrospect; showing the couple bickering over every décor choice so thoroughly they don't seem to agree at all about anything and certainly not about wall-to-wall tiger-stripe carpet. "That's a little crazy," Harbour says of Allen's choice. Two couches, positioned to face away from each other, are ideal, they agree, for arguing."
"The house is now for sale for $7.995 million - more than double the $3.5 million that the two paid in 2021 when they were just newlyweds who had met on Raya and eloped to Vegas. That price may take into account the neighborhood's hot streak or the cash they poured in to the Billy Cotton renovation she name-checked. Before their arrival, the place had been with one owner for decades and had bad wall-to-wall carpet, cheap beige tiles in the kitchen, and old cabinets,"
Lily Allen and David Harbour have placed their Cobble Hill brownstone at 381 Union Street on the market for $7.995 million, more than double their 2021 purchase price of $3.5 million. The couple hired designer Billy Cotton to execute an extensive renovation that introduced custom cabinetry, new moldings, and abundant Zuber wallpaper. Interior choices feature bold prints, tiger‑stripe carpet, two couches positioned to face away from each other, and a bathroom with custom faucets shaped like swans. The 2023 Architectural Digest home tour showcased frequent disagreements over décor. Cotton credits Allen with driving the maximalist aesthetic; Harbour described the designer as "budget un-conscious."
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