![]() He centered the three-bedroom property’s color palette on mossy shades of green that conjured the feeling of indoor-outdoor living, cornflower blues, and crisp, airy whites. Berk took note of this and sought to recreate the old world charms of the homes she grew up in. Pinto, who later moved to London, struggled to clearly articulate her vision beyond a feeling and the general sense that she wanted to be surrounded by warmth, familiarity, and a kind of earthiness that provided a respite during breaks from filming. But she grew up India in these more traditional, beautiful homes, and she wanted to bring in that element from her childhood, but sort of modernize it.” Color is what makes her happy, and that’s not really what I’m known for. “And to do that, I had to get out of my normal comfort box because the fact is, she’s in love with color. “It was really about impressing Freida,” Berk admits. He accepted on the condition that he would spearhead the design concept and all the major planning, but leverage his team as a kind of buffer to deal with the minor day-to-day gripes and “little details.” Though Tran had renovated their two other homes-“beautifully,” Berk says-and knew a considerable amount about design, Berk kept his focus squarely on Pinto. But we were so convinced that he had the right taste for everything we envisioned for this house, which we had been searching for so long-it has the best bones, the best energy, and belonged to the loveliest couple before us-that we decided we just had to convince him to make an exception and break his rule.”Įventually, they wore him down after what Berk recalls was the fourth or fifth attempt. “He never works with his good friends and said to us, ‘I love you too much to design your home.’ He didn’t want things to get messy. “He has this friend rule,” Pinto explains. He told them what he usually tells all well-meaning close friends who come to him with similar requests: “Absolutely not.” ![]() They said that they wanted him to renovate and design it. It makes sense, then, that later that year when public life resumed, Freida and Cory came to Berk to let him know that they had just bought a new house in L.A.-a low slung, 1950s style California bungalow, replete with pink-tile bathroom floors, ample garden space, and airy, sun-blanched rooms. “And Cory and Freida were two people I got really, really close to.” “I think a lot of us during the pandemic got either really far away from people or got really close to people,” Berk says. They began hanging out often and spent their days hiking and going on daily walks to the river, leaning on one another for support over the course of many months. The world-and their filming schedules-hit pause, leaving both couples to quarantine in Austin. Berk also didn’t know that they were neighbors in Los Angeles and Austin, where Tran and Pinto kept a house just one block away from Berk’s Airbnb. But what he didn’t know was that Tran was newly engaged to actress Freida Pinto-who famously starred as Dev Patel’s love interest, Latika, in Danny Boyle’s eight-time Oscar winning drama, Slumdog Millionaire. But then he’s like, ‘No, it’s me, Cory! Sophia friend!’”īerk remembered meeting photographer Cory Tran some years ago, at a dinner party hosted by Bush, his close friend and one of the stars of the hit 2000s teen drama One Tree Hill. ![]() “Dewey and I thought it was a fan so we waved and kept on walking. “All of a sudden, this handsome guy pulls up in a gorgeous classic pickup truck and he’s like, ‘Hey, Bobby!’,” Berk recalls. In the early months of 2020, before the majority of the world was familiar with the term coronavirus, interior designer and Netflix star Bobby Berk was taking a walk with his husband in downtown Austin, where they were filming the forthcoming season of Queer Eye.
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