Billy Joel’s West Village Townhouse for Sale

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JULY 6, 2010

One of the first celebrity houses I featured when I started this blog was Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons. He was a newlywed at the time, having just married 23-year old Katie Lee, and insisted in interviews that he would have fallen for her even if she were 30 years older than he was. (Really? Because it’s hard to imagine he’d find her as attractive as an 85-year old…)

But I digress. Here’s a photo of the great room in their beach house that I showed you then:

He and Katie had just gone on Oprah to discuss their marriage and his trip to rehab (April 2008). On that show, Katie gave us a tour of their fab West Village townhouse in New York, decorated by Nate Berkus.

Now that the couple has split, the townhouse is on the market for $12.9 million.

Katie showed off her favorite meatloaf recipe for Oprah viewers in the dining room:

Here’s how the dining room looks in the listing today:

Because cooking is Katie’s thing (she wrote a cookbook and hosted the first season of “Top Chef” on Bravo), there is a “chef’s kitchen” that includes a 6-burner Wolf stove:

(Is that a cat sleeping in the corner?)

You can watch the video tour on Oprah.com. For more information, check out the listing. More photos and info on the rumors that LeBron James might be buying it on Huffington Post.

To see my original post about Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons, click here.

Visit my Celebrity Houses page to see more, from Daryl Hall’s Revolutionary War-Era Colonial to Alan Jackson’s “Tara.”

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Billy Joel’s Beach House: Redecorated by Nate Berkus

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JANUARY 26, 2011

One of the first celebrity listings I featured, back in early 2008, was the Hamptons beach house that Billy Joel had bought for his young bride Katie Lee. He paid a little under $19 million for the four-bedroom, six-bath vacation home, but when they split last year, the house went back on the market for $22.5m.

Here’s how the house looked in ’08:

And how it looks in the listing today:

Katie hired Nate Berkus to decorate the beach house (and their townhouse in New York, which you can see here). They became friends, and you may have seen her on his show:

Here’s how the deck that overlooks the beach looked in ’08:

And today:

According to the listing, “Terraces on both levels guarantee breathtaking views of stunning Sagaponack land and seascapes.”

Family Room Before:

And the Family Room after Nate Berkus got to it:

In this photo the family room the furniture is different, even though they’re both in the current listing:

The Kitchen Before:

And the Kitchen Today:

The painted floors are interesting. Do you like this look better than the original stained hardwoods?

2 of the 4 Bedrooms in the House:

One of the 6 Bathrooms:

The house used to belong to the actor Roy Scheider (Jaws), who died in 2008.

The Study:

The asking price was reduced from $22.5 to $19.9m last September and lowered again recently to $18.5 million, which is about what he paid for it several years ago. Considering all the work they put into the house, it’s practically a steal! Any takers?

For more photos and information, check the listing at Corcoran.

You can see my original post about this house here and photos of the townhouse he shared with Katie Lee (also decorated by Nate) here.

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