{"id":19394,"date":"2025-10-28T02:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19394\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:27:19","slug":"lily-allen-and-david-harbours-breakup-townhouse-is-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19394\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen and David Harbour\u2019s Breakup Townhouse Is for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Lily Allen would like you to buy her townhouse.
\n Photo: Lexie Moreland\/WWD\/Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

Lily Allen and David Harbour\u2019s Cobble Hill townhouse is for sale. Maybe you knew this was coming, since Allen was quite candid about the place on her new breakup album. Singing about 381 Union Street<\/a>, Allen explains: \u201cNow I\u2019m looking at houses with four or five floors \/ And you\u2019ve found us a brownstone, said \u2018You want it? It\u2019s yours\u2019 \/ So we went ahead and we bought it \/ Found ourselves a good mortgage \/ Billy Cotton got sorted \/ All the furniture ordered \/ I could never afford this \/ You were pushing it forward \/ Made me feel a bit awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, there\u2019s the 2023 home tour they gave Architectural Digest<\/a>, which is cringe, in retrospect; showing the couple bickering over every d\u00e9cor choice so thoroughly they don\u2019t seem to agree at all about anything and certainly not about wall-to-wall tiger-stripe carpet. \u201cThat\u2019s a little crazy,\u201d Harbour says of Allen\u2019s choice. Two couches, positioned to face away from each other, are ideal, they agree, for arguing.<\/p>\n

The house is now for sale for $7.995 million<\/a> \u2014\u00a0more than double the $3.5 million that the two paid in 2021 when they were just newlyweds who had met on Raya and eloped to Vegas. That price may take into account the neighborhood\u2019s hot streak or the cash they poured in to the Billy Cotton renovation she name-checked. Before their arrival, the place had been with one owner for decades and had bad wall-to-wall carpet, cheap beige tiles in the kitchen, and old cabinets, according to the 2020 listing<\/a>. Cue Cotton. The designer put in custom cabinetry, new moldings, and lots of fussy wallpaper from Zuber. There\u2019s print, print, and more print. A bathroom features custom faucets modeled to look like little swans.\u00a0Harbour called the designer \u201cbudget un-conscious\u201d in the AD tour.<\/p>\n

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\n A listing photo shows a sitting area with couches positioned facing away from each other, which Allen and Harbour joked about in an Architectural Digest video, suggesting it\u2019s the perfect setup for an argument.
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

As for whose idea it really was, Cotton told\u00a0AD, \u201cLily is the one who really set the tone and drove the program,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery time I tried to make it calmer, she kept pushing and pushing for more.\u201d And even Allen admitted, at the time, that he tried to stop her. \u201cBilly would say, \u2018You know, this is a little crazy,\u2019 or he\u2019d bring up resale value,\u201d she told AD. \u201cBut this is our home.\u201d Or was.<\/p>\n

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\n The listing photo of the media room shows the tiger-print carpet, which Harbour doesn\u2019t love, and some of the expensive custom moves that they both seem to lament, including a lacquer ceiling.
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

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\n A listing photo shows a kitchen that Cotton told AD was based on the neighborhood\u2019s Italian history and made to look as if \u201cthey\u2019d inherited the home from a kooky Italian nonna with fabulous taste.\u201d
\n Photo: Compass\n <\/p>\n

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