{"id":144680,"date":"2026-02-25T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:20:09","slug":"this-is-how-stranger-things-cocreator-matt-duffer-lives-with-his-family-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144680\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how Stranger Things cocreator Matt Duffer lives with his family in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The couple\u2019s 2,300-square-foot Upper East Side \u201cclassic six\u201d needed months of work\u2014fine by Duffer and Hindsgaul, whose primary home is in Los Angeles, where they live with daughters Pippa, 4, and Saga, 2. The six-room layout offered great bones, but required a full rethinking.<\/p>\n

Given the scale of the overhaul, choosing the right designer felt especially important. Their designer of choice was Kyle O\u2019Donnell of Gramercy Design<\/a>, whose work on Stranger Things actor David Harbour\u2019s downtown loft resonated with them. \u201cWe just called him up, and we connected immediately,\u201d says Duffer. \u201cKyle had a strong view of what he could do with the space, and Sarah did as well, so I deferred to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gramercy Design created dome-like curves on the foyer\u2019s ceiling, inspired by the 1920s architecture of the building. The custom brass pendant was fabricated by Remains Lighting, and the steel console is by Pietro Franceschini.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Donnell was thrilled to have the opportunity to \u201ctouch every surface\u201d of the dignified home. \u201cWe wanted to respect the architecture of the building itself,\u201d he says. \u201cSo we reinterpreted a lot of details like plaster moldings and restored the oak flooring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone agreed to keep the existing layout, with some modifications. The primary bedroom\u2019s narrow bathroom was expanded by relocating the vanity into a new dressing area, and the kitchen gained a few square feet. \u201cWe needed a more modern kitchen,\u201d says Hindsgaul. \u201cI grew up in Copenhagen, and I was really missing that kind of European layout.\u201d Her Scandinavian roots informed another aspect of the kitchen: wall tiles depicting Viking ships, which O\u2019Donnell commissioned from Douglas Watson Studio in England to read as a single Delft-style mural.<\/p>\n

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Hindsgaul and Duffer in the kitchen with Pippa and Saga. Viking-themed custom wall tiles, made in England at Douglas Watson Studio, are a nod to Hindsgaul\u2019s Scandinavian upbringing. The room\u2019s lighting, which includes flush mounts and pendants of different heights, required some ingenuity. \u201cThere was this wild-beam layout; instead of covering it up, we embraced it,\u201d says the designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple\u2019s 2,300-square-foot Upper East Side \u201cclassic six\u201d needed months of work\u2014fine by Duffer and Hindsgaul, whose primary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2408,7452,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-144680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-homes","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}