HGTV star Ty Pennington, the carpenter host of home-renovation shows like Extreme Home Makeover and Trading Spaces, is making some big changes when it comes to his own living situation. Pennington, who listed his High Line condo this spring, bought a two-bedroom condo at 77 Reade Street in Tribeca, city records show.
The loft-style apartment has a 25-foot living room, 12-foot ceilings, exposed-brick walls, and hardwood floors. The kitchen is, befitting an HGTV star, open, with Arabescato Corchia–honed countertops and Miele appliances. The apartment also comes with outdoor space — a large private terrace — and a vented washer and dryer. (Amenities that may be commonplace for most of Pennington’s viewers but are considered luxury features in New York.) It was listed with Douglas Elliman’s Kirsten Jordan. Pennington paid $2.95 million for the apartment, a slight discount off the $2.99 million asking price and just a little more than his two-bedroom condo on the High Line was asking. (That condo has since been rented out for $11,995 a month.)
Pennington’s new home, part of a luxury development that combines an 1852 brick warehouse with a limestone addition completed in 2011, does not appear to need any renovation work at all. However, Pennington and his wife, Kellee Merrell, also own an 1853 house in Savannah, Georgia, that they’ve been slowly restoring.
