Inside Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos’s Sophisticated NYC Townhouse

[door clicking]

Hey, AD. Hi.

We're the Consueloses.

Welcome to our favorite place on Earth.

Come on in, come on. Come on in.

[bright music]

Welcome to our cigar lounge, my cigar lounge, actually.

[Mark] It's his cigar lounge. Yeah.

Otherwise known as Bar Five, it's on the 5th floor.

[Kelly] Well, the impulse was we wanted it

to feel like 1970s New York City meets 1920s Paris.

[Mark] Right.

It was a pleasure working with Bill Sofield.

He said, Well, why don't we go to Paris

and go to the flea markets

and get a bunch of stuff for your house?

And I think that's where we really fell in love.

This became the hangout room in the entire house.

And it was initially thought of as just Mark's space

where he would go to smoke cigars

because he had a special ventilation system put in here

that sucks the smoke out of the sky, allegedly.

[Mark] Do you smell cigars? No, you can't.

It never smells like cigars in here,

which is crazy because I know a lot of cigars

have been smoked in this room.

Smoked, yeah, for sure.

[Kelly] Sporting events are watched, games are played,

cocktail parties, everything happens.

And the design inspiration,

we've seen it on a documentary called L'Amour Fou

and I just loved the color of the paint.

Somewhere on a wall, that's how we started with the room.

And we found this table.

[Kelly] The best find.

[Mark] I think it's from the '70s

and it's really old-school fiber optics.

But we had to have the glass replaced

because the glass was so fragile

from it being so old and so many, I think, parties.

[Mark] Parties. [chuckles]

There was a lot of etchings in the glass,

so we had the glass replaced. [chuckles]

Yeah, and a lot of Formula One-inspired photography

'cause I love Formula One.

It's the ultimate guy's room.

I don't come up here often,

but when I do, I always say to myself,

I should spend more time up here, it's so pretty.

[Mark] Yeah. Check this out.

[humidor handle clinking]

My cigars.

[drawers whooshing]

Little humidor. [door thudding]

Okay, just so you know, I've lived here as long as he has

and I did not know that was there.

[bright music]

This is our bedroom.

[Mark] I think the feeling for the bedroom was always,

when we travel to Europe or we go to a beautiful hotel-

[Kelly] Hotel.

[Mark] The feeling that you get there,

it's sexy, it's peaceful, it's quiet.

That was the feeling we were going for in the bedroom.

I really feel at home here.

Just about every light fixture

and everything you see in this room

has come from the flea markets in Paris.

[Mark] Yeah.

Something more interesting than just us

happened to all of these beautiful pieces.

And we are glad to be able

to give them new homes and new lives in New York City.

Yeah.

And don't think we're crazy

about putting a mirror in front of our bed.

It hides a TV.

[Kelly] We don't stare at ourselves.

We watch Judge Judy in here. Judge Judy.

And I remember the gold leaf at the headboard took,

gosh, they had these elves in here.

Yeah, rubbing.

Just rubbing, laying more down, rubbing and rubbing.

And we watched them do it for-

[Kelly] Well, we kept thinking it was perfect every layer.

[Mark] Every time, yeah.

It's perfect. Don't touch it.

[laughs] These too,

I guess we'd call them little chandeliers.

They're a pair, but they came separately,

and we got someone to match the fringe on both.

And it just took such a long time.

This is where I spend most of my time.

I do a lot of work in here.

I wrote my book right there at this desk on that chair

and I had to have it reupholstered.

[Mark] Yes!

Because I wore the fabric out of the chair

in the shape of my rear end.

That's how much time I spent there.

[hands clapping]

Also in winter, spring, summer, fall, it's a beautiful view.

And then I love these pictures of the kids

'cause these are kind of the ages they were

when we moved in here.

Oh, yeah.

The artwork that we have in the hallway

is from an artist named Marc Quinn.

By the way, those are kids' eyes.

And he photographs the eye and he paints the eye

but from the inside looking out.

So it's not a print, it's not a photograph.

[Mark] They don't live here anymore,

so when we leave our bedroom,

it feels like they're still with us.

And I could stare at my kids' eyes forever.

I just think they're great.

And now, even though the kids are gone,

we still share a bathroom and a closet.

And people always find that very remarkable.

Why don't one of you

take one of the kids' bathrooms and closet?

[Mark] A kid's room?

[Kelly] And we've always shared a bathroom and a closet.

[Mark] And we always will. No.

[Kelly] And I don't think we will ever

not share a bathroom and a closet.

I just feel like you and I live well together.

[Mark] Yeah.

It's also forced us to be very diligent

about what we buy, wearing what we have, not being wasteful.

And what we need. Right.

It keeps you honest.

We've moved several times in our lives,

but no matter where we go, for me, this is my forever home.

When I walked in here, I was like,

This is the final place where I will live.

I love this house so much.

[bright music]

All right, welcome to our living room.

This would be the informal formal living.

[chuckles] Yeah.

Because we have had so many great parties in this room.

It presents as fancy, but it really is super comfortable.

But it's super comfortable, not too precious. Yeah.

And very casual.

If we have an important meeting

and someone's coming to our house, like a business meeting.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

We really try to look adult. Like, Come in.

Come in, and then I do this.

[door latch clicking] [door whooshing]

And then they're trapped.

We make them sit on the sofa,

which is a chic, shiny velvet.

And then, we watch 'em slide.

We watch them slide over. [laughs]

Kind of throws them off a little bit.

At the end of the day, we're still us,

so it's gonna be goofy.

Yeah.

[Kelly] And the fireplace is?

Louis XVI, I think.

And during Christmas,

we actually have that middle part of that couch removed,

we spread out the chairs,

and we put a Christmas tree right in that window.

And this entire room becomes a Christmas room.

And the tapestries-

[Kelly] They are works of art. They really are.

There is a TV in here.

It's behind that beautiful mirror there that just turns on.

And these guys are a hit,

especially when we have little kids come over.

[Kelly] Oh, yeah.

[Mark] And we've had to glue

a couple of those ears back on 'cause they've been dropped.

The late, great Gloria Vanderbilt gave us,

as a housewarming present,

one of her paintings over the fireplace,

which I actually think she did with pastels.

She just said it looked like us.

We also have a photo of her

when she just completed it in her studio.

[Mark] Yes.

Yeah. So it just means a lot.

I always feel like she's watching over us.

[bright music]

All right, this is our dining room.

Big family meals, dinner parties.

Lots of Sunday Chinese food with our friends.

[Mark] Yep.

[Kelly] Which leads us to the best part.

You love a lazy Susan.

Because I am lazier than most Susans.

But I didn't necessarily wanna see a lazy Susan.

Check this out. Tell me that's not the greatest. [chuckles]

It is so great.

When the rice and the food gets stuck.

Flip that up, pull it out.

And you can lift it and you can vacuum.

Vacuum. [chuckles]

Ball bearings and a groove and you've got a lazy Susan.

I knew I needed an office.

It didn't need to be big.

And so, I found space in the back there.

And so, we turned that into my office.

I get a view of the garden. I can take some calls.

And it's also a little butler's pantry/bar

for the dining room.

So this chandelier, extraordinary.

It's cultural. Truly beautiful.

This came from Vienna.

And Bill said,

If one third of it arrives intact, we'll be thrilled.

Not broken, intact. Yeah, yeah.

And the entire thing arrived-

Flawless.

There wasn't a bead out of place.

It was really a miracle.

And I'm gonna tell you the kind of guy that Bill is

because he is a very unique person.

We were with him in Paris

and our youngest son came with us and he loved escargot.

And Bill, I think, found it quite remarkable

that a little kid that was nine years old was eating snails.

Yeah.

And so, Bill bought this for Joaquin for the house.

They're escargot toothpicks

that you can pick your snails out of the shells.

[Mark] Clean out your snails.

And I just found that to be indicative of who he is.

[bright music]

Come on into the kitchen.

Every room is the heart and soul but this actually is.

This really is, yeah.

And it's nice, it's just off the garden.

If we ever wanna go outside and have a cup of coffee.

[Kelly] Yeah.

[Mark] So we're very serious about our coffee.

[Kelly] We're fussy coffee drinkers, yeah.

[Mark] So you can see, we have multiple machines

for multiple things.

This is the snack closet.

[Mark] It's the pantry.

We come home from work.

No, but it is more than a pantry.

It is a snack closet.

Because most pantries have things that you would cook with.

This one just has snacks.

We come home from work, we immediately go there.

We get a snack, we sit down here,

we finish up whatever work we have to do for the day.

Yeah.

And it was fun finding all the stone

and going to the yards with Bill.

You guys went to quarries.

Quarries, yeah.

And you were talking to me about

how it had a singular vein that ran through it.

Yeah, well, this vein,

they could see there, there was a shift.

There was a seismic shift here that used to be like that

and something happened

and all these lines are just a little bit off.

Or they cracked it and they just put it together wrong.

I'm not sure which one it is.

Oh, and I dug this picture up to show you guys

because we were talking about

when Bill took us to the Paris flea markets

and he sent me this photo.

I tried to convince Mark to buy a giant disco ball.

And he said it was just too on the nose.

Also, our fairly, not quite opaque-

[Mark] Oh, right.

[Kelly] Mildly translucent cabinets keep us honest.

[Mark] We are forced to be organized. Organized.

There were so many discussions

about pulls for the doorknobs

and for the drawers and for the cabinetry.

I did not realize that those would be separate purchases,

those would be extra.

That was you and Bill going to get every pull.

Yeah, gosh.

Yeah, we looked at all the pulls

and they do match the ones in the bar in the cigar lounge.

Those were nice and sturdy

and they were nice on the hand as well.

Yeah, they're everywhere.

Oh, yeah, one thing we did here

that I thought was cool is he wrapped this.

Otherwise, the kitchen hoods are just kind of industrial.

So we plastered the kitchen hood. Love the shape of it.

We went from living in a loft downtown in SoHo.

Everything was this very industrial stuff.

Very industrial, yeah.

To plastering my oven hood.

Yeah, having arches, departure for you.

Arches.

And when I saw things with round shapes,

I'm like, What is that?

[Kelly] That was not your cup of tea.

[Mark] No. No.

He used to like austere, minimalist spaces.

And then, I think moving uptown changed you.

[Mark] Moving uptown. Yep.

Turned you into a gentleman.

[Mark laughing]

I cook, but you're the griller.

Yeah, caveman stuff, I can do, but she's a fabulous cook.

No, no, I'm not a fabulous cook.

I cook, there's a total difference in those two statements.

[Mark] No, you do great.

I do great because he's hungry.

Although, I will say when you see the eggs in the magazine,

those are stunt eggs.

I did not make those eggs.

My eggs are gorgeous. Pristine.

They are really pretty.

[bright music]

All right, AD, that's it. That's our tour.

Hope you enjoyed it. Come see us again.

Please.

We're gonna go change into sweatpants.

Sweatpants. [laughs]

See ya. Bye.

[door squeaking]