Hollywood Couple Asks $3.8M for Dreamy Country Estate They Revitalized in Germantown, NY

Plenty of actors hold homes in Los Angeles and New York City, but for years they have also quietly settled into the quaint towns the Hudson Valley. Glenn Close, Uma Thurman, Matt Damon, and, famously, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have all owned residences in the bucolic region full of darling antique stores, friendly restaurants, and tree-lined, curving lanes. Another famous pair who has called the area home is actor Corbin Bernsen, who you may know best from shows like “Psych,” “L.A. Law,” and “General Hospital,” and English-born actress Amanda Pays, who starred in “The Flash” and “Oxford Blues.”

The married stars have resided in and remodeled more than 30 homes, according to Mansion Global, and even published a book titled, “Open House: Reinventing Space for Simple Living.” And, this may be one of their most mesmerizing design feats yet. They picked up Barnswood, an eight-acre property in Germantown with gorgeous historic structures, for $725,000 in 2023 and set to work on transforming it. The’ve now listed it for $3.8 million.

According to the publication, it was essentially a full rebuild and restoration. Pays and Bernsen stripped the circa-1800s main house down to its bones and brought it back to life from there. Prior to their ownership, it had been clunkily updated at various points, so it was no longer in harmonious alignment with its roots.

Photograph: The Lillie K. Team at Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty

While every material isn’t original to the home, many of the “new” elements at the estate have an interesting, old story. For example, the owners sourced tall interior doors from Egypt and commissioned an architectural salvage team in Alabama to restore them. There are also pine beams throughout the home hailing from a dismantled, 19th-century barn along the St. John River in Maine and flooring restored from an old Canadian clothespin factory.

As well as the main house, there’s a one-bedroom guest house set down a winding stone path and a vast, livable barn that can be whatever you make it. Whether you entertain there or use it as a home office or hobby workshop, it exudes a sense of rural, tranquil enchantment. Right now, you can spot some of Bernsen’s items (he has one one the largest snow globe collections in the world) on display there.

The Lillie K. Team at Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty holds this exceptional listing. Mansion Global reports that the sellers are already working on their next Hudson Valley project.