Inside Kate Upton and Justin Verlander's Colorful New York Penthouse
- 🔑 In a video and article published March 13, 2026, Architectural Digest toured Kate Upton and Justin Verlander’s fully renovated penthouse at Beckford Tower in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, showing a home the couple redid in bold color after years of living with all-white walls.
- The couple worked with interior designer John Ruggiero, a former celebrity hairstylist, to create a pink living room, a shamrock-green kitchen with gold-and-green floral wallpaper, a blackberry-toned home theater with Art Deco details, and a blue primary bedroom with pink and green accents.
- Verlander has said the apartment was entirely Upton’s design call, and the couple jokingly refer to the finished home as her ‘Shenthouse’ because of how fully she committed to the color scheme, especially the pink.
- A standout feature is a custom 3D art installation made from Upton’s own magazine covers, arranged to look like Times Square billboards — a piece Verlander commissioned as a personal gift for his wife, and one of the apartment’s most talked-about details in coverage of the tour.
- Upton and Verlander went into contract on the roughly 4,141-square-foot, four-bedroom penthouse in January 2023, while Verlander was pitching for the New York Mets, after the unit had been asking as much as $20 million and was most recently listed at $16.75 million.
- As of this writing in early October 2026, there is no public report that the couple has sold, listed, or otherwise moved out of the penthouse since the Architectural Digest tour published in March; it remains the most recent public look inside the home.
Architectural Digest published a video tour of Kate Upton and Justin Verlander’s Manhattan penthouse on March 13, 2026, showing the couple’s once all-white apartment redone floor to ceiling in bold color. The tour, part of AD’s “Open Door” series, is the fullest public look yet at the home the couple bought in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, and it has since become the definitive record of what interior designer John Ruggiero built inside it. Here’s what the tour showed, who designed it, and where things stand with the home more than six months later.
What did Architectural Digest show inside Kate Upton and Justin Verlander’s penthouse?
Architectural Digest’s “Open Door” video and accompanying article walked through a penthouse the couple had completely reimagined in color after years of living with white walls. Upton led the tour herself, room by room, while Verlander appeared throughout to talk through specific design choices. The piece, published March 13, 2026, remains the only official media tour of the finished apartment; no newer AD feature or follow-up has since replaced it.
Where is the penthouse, and how big is it?
The penthouse sits at Beckford Tower, a building in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, and runs roughly 4,141 square feet with four bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms. Three private terraces add about 634 more square feet of outdoor space, with views toward both Central Park and the East River. Public listing records and real estate trade press show Upton and Verlander went into contract on the unit in January 2023, while Verlander was pitching for the New York Mets, after the apartment had been asking as much as $20 million and was most recently listed at $16.75 million. Trade-press reporting on the eventual sale price puts it at roughly $15.35 million, though that figure has not been independently confirmed against a primary public-records filing.
Who designed the colorful interior, and why do they call it the “Shenthouse”?
The couple worked with interior designer John Ruggiero, a former celebrity hairstylist who used to do Upton’s hair before becoming a designer, to turn the all-white apartment into a home built around color. “This is Kate’s place — she had full design control,” Verlander said in the AD tour. The couple jokingly call the finished home her “Shenthouse,” a nod to how completely Upton committed to the palette, especially the pink she used throughout.
What does each room look like?
Nearly every room got its own dominant color, starting with a pink living room with views over Central Park. The kitchen went shamrock green, with gold-and-green floral wallpaper layered over deep green cabinetry. A former formal dining room became a home theater, painted blackberry with Art Deco-inspired gold velvet curtains and wainscoting; Verlander has said the conversion reflects how the family actually uses the space day to day, as a comfortable spot to watch movies together rather than host formal dinners. The primary bedroom went blue, with pink and green worked into the bed frame and carpet.
| Room | Design |
|---|---|
| Living room | Pink walls, Central Park views |
| Kitchen | Shamrock green, gold-and-green floral wallpaper |
| Home theater | Blackberry walls, Art Deco gold velvet details |
| Primary bedroom | Blue walls, pink and green accents |
What is the 3D art installation Verlander gave Upton?
One standout piece is a custom 3D art installation made from Upton’s own magazine covers, arranged to look like Times Square billboards. Verlander commissioned it as a personal gift for his wife, and it hangs as one of the apartment’s most talked-about details in coverage of the tour — a nod to Upton’s modeling career built directly into the home’s decor.
Do Kate Upton and Justin Verlander still live there?
As of this writing, there is no public report that the couple has sold, listed, or otherwise given up the Beckford Tower penthouse since the AD tour published in March 2026. The apartment has continued to come up in coverage of the family through the rest of 2026, including around Verlander’s retirement from baseball that September, with nothing in that later reporting suggesting a change in the home’s status. Readers who followed the couple’s two children, daughter Genevieve and son Bellamy, at Verlander’s Detroit Tigers send-off that month can find more on that event in our recap of Kate Upton joining Justin Verlander’s Tigers retirement ceremony .
The bottom line
Six months on, the Architectural Digest tour still stands as the definitive look inside Kate Upton and Justin Verlander’s New York penthouse — a home that traded an all-white blank slate for a color scheme Upton herself chose, room by room, with her husband’s full backing.