Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent Have Another Project Up Their Sleeves
For the millions who have found themselves cooped up at home over the last several months, quarantine hobbies have looked a lot like Amazon window-shopping and binge-watching the latest and greatest on Netflix. But for interior design maven Jeremiah Brent, his time spent in quarantine has produced quite the unique (and space-defying) project.
Speaking exclusively with People, Brent revealed that along with husband Nate Berkus, he's taken on the task of building a tiny home behind their house in Montauk, New York. Instead of creating their tiny home from the ground up, a shed-like structure was used as the bones of the project.
"My new obsession is small spaces,” says Jeremiah Brent. “So, we have this unfinished shed structure outside that we've been working on over the last month and a half or so, just to kind of create this little space for if we did have family come into town eventually. A place for people to stay.”
Although the couple's beach home in Montauk is a far cry from the confined spaces of Manhattan, Brent reveals that the city's cramped quarters inspired his new found love for small spaces.
"I'm always just intrigued at how incredibly efficient they can become, and it really has made me appreciate small spaces even more because it means that every single thing in that space is so important,” Brent reveals.
Just last month, Berkus opened up to Elle Decor about the couple's decision to purchase their Montauk home by the water. In 2004, Berkus lost his partner, photographer Fernando Bengoechea in the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami. In the issue, the interior designer/author divulged that he "didn’t want my experience in the tsunami to deprive our family of summers like that."
Berkus and Brent purchased their three-bedroom, three-bathroom vacation home last year.
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