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In this episode of Open Door, AD steps inside Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott’s stunning New York apartment. With the help of interior designer Young Huh and Jonathan’s home improvement prowess, the couple designed a maximalist haven, blending vintage details with custom craftsmanship. From the bold colors in their entryway to the whimsical kids’ bedroom, their home is full of warmth and personality, reflecting Zooey and Jonathan’s collaborative vision.
Shop the celebrity couple’s maximalist aesthetic with our editor-curated selection of furniture and decor inspired by their NYC home.
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Shop the celebrity couple’s maximalist aesthetic with our editor-curated selection of furniture and decor inspired by their NYC home.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/shopping/zooey-deschanel-and-jonathan-scott-open-door
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00:01Hey, A.T.
00:02Hey, I'm Jonathan.
00:03I'm Zoe.
00:04Welcome to our home.
00:05Let us show you around.
00:17There is nothing more important than a first impression,
00:20and we wanted to really welcome our guests
00:23with something interesting and exciting.
00:25And I fell in love with this wallpaper when I saw it.
00:28Young Ha, our co-designer, designed with Jonathan,
00:32brought this to our attention.
00:33I just thought it was, like, so much fun.
00:35Just a great way to wow people when they get off the elevator.
00:39Can you imagine?
00:40The ceiling height here was less than eight feet originally.
00:43It was so low.
00:44It was right there.
00:45And all of that was just wasted up top.
00:48So we raised it up.
00:49We added the crown, the statement fixture to draw the eye.
00:51The arch is actually my favorite thing.
00:53But this is also just a tease
00:56for what you're going to see inside.
00:58We loved this printed mural by Ixel.
01:02It's so magical and draws you in.
01:05It's a wonderful start to this apartment we love.
01:09You tell more stuff.
01:10Well, when we first looked at the place,
01:13I had looked at a lot of different units in the building,
01:15and many of them felt really tight when you first walk in.
01:17So I thought this was a beautiful way to draw everybody in.
01:20And then, of course, raising the eye line with all the detail work.
01:24These are all reproductions, these lanterns across here.
01:27But we wanted something, again,
01:28that was going to make an elegant statement.
01:30All the custom moldings, everything in here is real plaster,
01:33all hand-done by Hyde Park moldings.
01:36This place looked absolutely nothing like the way it does now
01:40when we first looked at it.
01:42It had, like, great ceilings.
01:44It had high ceilings, but that's, like, about it.
01:46What was your first reaction when we toured it?
01:48Ew, gross.
01:50It had sat vacant for a very long time,
01:52and it was in need of a lot of love,
01:54but little vision goes a long way.
01:56Yes.
02:01So this is our kitchen, and we love it.
02:04And this is nothing like it looked before.
02:07This was the kitchen before.
02:09That was it, like a little tiny closet.
02:11The kitchen is the heart of the home.
02:13Yeah.
02:14And so we needed to have something
02:15where you could actually envision yourself entertaining
02:17and being connected with your guests.
02:19I'm obsessed with the stone.
02:21Yeah, the stone's so beautiful.
02:23And Jonathan collaborated with Young Ha,
02:25who's an incredible designer,
02:27and made the space just so special.
02:30One of the things I love about Young,
02:32I love, like, maximalist design,
02:34and, like, I love being able to mix a lot of prints
02:36and colors and things together.
02:38It takes a lot of skill, and that's something she does so well.
02:41And also, Jonathan is incredible at maximizing space.
02:45He looks at a floor plan and knows where the problem's going to be.
02:48The flow in this kitchen and living room is so wonderful.
02:53I'd always had a gas range before,
02:55and we were switching to induction,
02:57but I wanted something really beautiful
02:59that feels, like, old-fashioned,
03:00so we found this Ilve.
03:02Ilve are design-forward.
03:04I love the aesthetic,
03:05but you're also not burning fossil fuels,
03:07so you're not affecting the indoor air quality.
03:09I actually custom-designed this hood with the finishes
03:12to match the knobs and the accent pieces on the Ilve range.
03:16If you look up, you notice that there's no recess lights in this place.
03:20That's a swear word in our house.
03:22We were able to just put beautiful lights everywhere,
03:25or we have a chandelier or a pendant, a sconce or a lamp.
03:29The lighting feels magical and moody and fun.
03:32This is the side effect of being engaged to someone
03:35whose father is a world-class cinematographer.
03:37Lighting is very important.
03:39When everything's put away,
03:40we want to make sure that it's nice and clean,
03:42so I love panel-ready appliances,
03:44and it blends in with the coffee station,
03:46but Jan Air does beautiful appliances.
03:49And it's like 100% how it always looks, like no labels.
03:53Just in case somebody films.
03:55I always keep it staged, you know?
03:57Would you like one of these generic parfaits?
03:59I would like a glass container with parfait.
04:01Yeah.
04:02Yeah, in order to maximize the footprint
04:04and get as much storage as you can,
04:06we also did a lot of custom millwork
04:08so that you can also tuck away
04:10when you're using the coffee station,
04:12and everything's nice and clean.
04:15We have literally the best millwork shop.
04:18Artie Lang, who does all the custom millwork,
04:20is a genius.
04:21The good thing is, like, you have so many contacts,
04:25and, like, you know, like, the best people to do everything.
04:29I'm so lucky because, like, I have you.
04:33You need something? Call me.
04:34Don't. Don't call him.
04:42This is Entertainment Central.
04:45Everyone who comes in, they immediately want to sit down.
04:47Yeah, and you know what?
04:49We love a place that feels, like, lush and pretty,
04:52but, like, also we want our home to feel lived in
04:56and not too stark and austere.
04:59It's not like that living room that had plastic on it
05:01at your grandmother's house when you were a kid growing up.
05:03You couldn't touch anything.
05:05You can come in here, and it's unique,
05:07but it's also super, super comfortable.
05:10One day, Young came with, like, all these fabrics,
05:12and, like, Jonathan actually wasn't there.
05:14No.
05:15Like, we were putting all these fabrics together.
05:17We went crazy.
05:18But then I knew Young wouldn't, like, steer us wrong.
05:20Young was like, trust me, it's gonna be amazing.
05:24And she was 100% right.
05:26I couldn't love this living room more.
05:29Like, it's perfection to me, and, like,
05:31there's color through lines that tie it all together
05:34and allow us to have all these different patterns.
05:38And I think the craziest part was that Zoe didn't look
05:40at the price of the fabrics.
05:42And when I did...
05:44I have good taste.
05:45You do have very good taste.
05:47It's actually bad because if you show me, like, 15 things,
05:51I'll be like, ooh, that one's obviously the best,
05:53and it's, like, always the most expensive.
05:55Always the most expensive.
05:56The rug here I actually had custom-made from our collection
05:59to complement the sofa that we had already had designed.
06:02And so this was really pulling everything together
06:04and making a space that everyone, as soon as they come in here,
06:06they just want to jump into this area and sit down.
06:08I also don't like to see a TV in a living room.
06:11I'm like, I've got a lot of real weird pet peeves,
06:13but I don't like seeing TV.
06:15So Jonathan's like, it's fine.
06:16We'll hide a screen in the ceiling.
06:18Secrets.
06:19We're starting with a blank canvas, and we're thinking,
06:21how can we make this space perfect?
06:22And one thing is, we love to entertain.
06:25And frankly, you're the first person we've invited over
06:27outside of family.
06:28We haven't had anybody here yet, so our goal is to entertain as much.
06:31Our goal, yeah, exactly.
06:32Our goal was a space that we could turn into a great party space
06:35when we want to.
06:37I was so happy when Zoe requested having a grand here as well
06:43because nothing brings me more joy than hearing her play
06:46or just having music around in general.
06:48We also liked the idea of having parties that were, like, sing-alongs.
06:53I grew up playing a Yamaha piano, so this was a really special addition
06:58to this piece.
06:59What I think is also a good thing to note is if you're doing karaoke,
07:03don't go immediately after something this good.
07:06We have a whole karaoke set up, so we can do karaoke.
07:08Yeah.
07:09This is where all the karaoke equipment and everything is hidden away.
07:12So when we do want to do a sing-along, it's all pro.
07:14I love having antiques and vintage pieces.
07:17That was important to mix in because we're inserting character
07:20into a place that didn't have a lot of character to begin with
07:23or any character to begin with.
07:25So I love this, like, Murano glass chandelier that actually Young found,
07:29and I have a couple of Murano glass chandeliers that I've been collecting over the years.
07:34She has good taste.
07:35You don't really get a space like this in most New York apartments.
07:40We love that we have three private terraces.
07:43It just feels like you can get that little slice of what we have in L.A.
07:48Springtime.
07:49Yeah, exactly.
07:50And you get here in New York.
07:51None of this was here.
07:52It was all exposed.
07:53Yeah.
07:54No privacy.
07:55It was a lot of work, but totally worth it.
07:57And now you can cut to B-roll of the other two terraces
08:00because each area that faces the back of the property has its own private terrace.
08:05From the tile that you see on the bottom to all of the greenery, the ironwork,
08:09everything was custom made we put in.
08:11But we had a lot of discussion about, like, what our kind of permanent plantings would be.
08:15We have, like, a lot of trellis.
08:17It has that English garden feel that we really love and we have in L.A.,
08:20and I wanted to have that here, too.
08:27These are all plaster sconces, but we hand worked them all into the custom plaster
08:32that are on the pillars just so that everything feels seamless.
08:35I don't like having gaps.
08:36I don't like having things that look like they don't line up properly,
08:39so having the right reveals.
08:40Yeah, so Jonathan, like, notices everything.
08:41And if we walk in someone's house and they've had, like, bad work done,
08:44he's like, do you want help?
08:46Oh, this is actually a little treat.
08:48This is a 17th century French tapestry.
08:53So beautiful.
08:55Don't get drinking by it, okay?
08:57This is our family room.
09:04This is a very cozy room.
09:06I love this area.
09:07I love it, too.
09:08When we originally toured this place and everything was empty and it was vacant,
09:11this was actually just a brick wall across the back.
09:13There was no fireplace, and it was just begging for some sort of focal point.
09:18Then when we put the fireplace in, it really looked nice flanked with the shelves.
09:23We wanted it to look like it matches some of the other architecture in the space.
09:27We also hid another movie-sized screen for great movie nights down here.
09:31We had all of this custom-made to look like it could be a century-old fireplace surround,
09:37bringing in the sconces from England, bringing in that custom stone.
09:41Also, all these chairs were custom-made, but they feel, to me, like vintage pieces.
09:46Of course, we're, like, mixing, like, vintage sconces and a lot of other antiques in the mix
09:51so that it feels lived in.
09:54But we can get exactly what we want in terms of color, comfort.
09:58This is a Japanese screen that would normally be on the floor,
10:01and we hung it on the wall as art, and it's over 100 years old.
10:05Knowing that there's a story behind it and it was originally purposed for something else is kind of special.
10:10I love patterns.
10:11I love mixing different colors together.
10:13It does take a lot of skill, but if you're a little bit nervous about it,
10:17start with a throw pillow and just make sure that the colors have, like, through lines.
10:23So you have something tying those pieces together.
10:27I'll also say sometimes you have to look at something in a space to know.
10:31I remember my dad saying that.
10:33My dad's very visual.
10:34He was like, you really don't know until you see it.
10:36It's like when you have paint chips, get the big ones.
10:38Or get a little bit of paint and paint part of the wall so you can really see it on a bigger space.
10:43Because it also looks different at different times of the day, how natural light hits it.
10:48If you have those, like, little, you know, the little, like, bandex,
10:51and you look and you go, oh, that looks really good.
10:53And it could be, like, it could look like cream with a touch of pink.
10:56And then if it's, like, all over your house, it could look like it's, like, bright coral.
11:00Listen to her. She knows what she's talking about.
11:02So this is our bedroom. Isn't it pretty?
11:12It is very pretty.
11:13You might be saying to yourself, who chose the color scheme in here?
11:17We actually both chose it.
11:19We are so collaborative.
11:20I've never had an easier.
11:22We've never had a problem ever.
11:23Should we have our first fight right now?
11:25Let's have it.
11:26What would it be about?
11:27The thing that's nice is that you're very supportive of things that I like.
11:31Let's just get one thing straight.
11:33She has better taste than I do.
11:35The embroidered wallpaper is my favorite.
11:37I love this. It's just really, the dimension just makes it so special.
11:40I wish this was textural television where you could actually feel.
11:44Young talked about doing a mural on the front of the nightstands,
11:47and you'll see as well that it has that cracked finish that makes it look like it has always been there
11:51as an antique piece of furniture.
11:52It worked so perfectly.
11:54The entire vibe in this room is peaceful.
11:58When we look into the bathroom and how we pulled the blues into the bathroom,
12:01all of that wall tile was designed by Young and from her collection.
12:05Everything we like, she likes, and vice versa.
12:09So it's important.
12:10But we wanted to take the details of all the paneling that you see in here,
12:13and we wanted to replicate that in the bathroom with marble.
12:16That's why you see the exquisite tall panels of tile that really make a statement.
12:21Also, I was excited because some people might be intimidated to work with you, like another designer,
12:28and it's like I'm kind of particular about everything.
12:32But Young got my taste and your taste right away and just came in to collaborate and had so many great ideas and was excited.
12:40It was such a fun project for us all to work on together.
12:44I had to have a Scott Living mattress because they're so comfy.
12:49I'm really not trying to actually plug your mattress company because I can just be like,
12:53I want a mattress that's like this, this, and this, and this.
12:56And then he'll just be like, yeah, done.
12:58Do you think you saw a dating profile for me that said,
13:01contractor, designer, makes mattresses, makes rugs, makes all these things.
13:04And you're like, this is the guy.
13:06Yeah.
13:07Yeah. Okay, good.
13:08I can't even picture the old space.
13:11That's how different it is.
13:13And that's how much of a transformation this was.
13:21Being in this space for the first time was incredible.
13:24I mean, it was like a present, like Christmas present.
13:27What's the grown-up moment of like when kids go, ah!
13:31It just felt so nice for it to be done because it did take a very long time.
13:35Do you remember those like Toys R Us commercials like from the 90s where they're like,
13:39So excited!
13:40Yeah!
13:41That's what it felt like, but for grown-ups.
13:44Yeah.
13:45That's what it's like when you get your dream home.
13:52This is probably my favorite room in the whole house.
13:56It's so cute.
13:57I'm obsessed with this like printed mural wallpaper.
14:00I love it so much.
14:01This is the kids' room.
14:02If you hadn't figured it out, it's so pretty.
14:05When the kids saw it for the first time, they like screamed.
14:08They were so excited.
14:10We hid drawers everywhere we possibly could.
14:13This is the Jonathan special.
14:15Hiding storage?
14:17Even our railings, all the leaves are hand cut.
14:20This was legacy mill work that did all of this work here and they really did a phenomenal job.
14:26I do think to myself how special it feels to wake up in a space that feels creative and this exciting.
14:32And the kids just absolutely love it.
14:34And you can't beat a topiary elephant.
14:36That's right.
14:37I will say it's also nice because they feel like they have their own space even though they're sharing a room.
14:41They're separated.
14:42They have their own little bookshelves and they don't have to look at each other if they're mad at each other.
14:46That never happens.
14:48That never.
14:49They never fight.
14:50I hope they know how lucky they are to have a contractor in the family.
14:55A little secret that I don't think maybe anybody knows.
14:59Every design I have ever done, I've snuck in an owl and a little bit of tartan.
15:04And in here, this is where I snuck in the owl.
15:06There's a little owl in here.
15:07And here's the little bit of tartan.
15:09You're the tartan.
15:10So fun.
15:17So fun.
15:18Yeah.
15:19Thanks so much.
15:20I'm going to go fix all the things you broke.
15:22Thanks, AD.
15:23See you next time.
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