Inside Andy Cohen’s Hamptons Beach Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest

[door clacking] "AD," I can't believe you're here. I watch these videos all the time and now I'm in one, crazy. Come on into my beach house. [upbeat music] Let's start here, this is kind of my

everything room. It's living dining, hangout stories before bed. It's the whole chalabiel. This is Lucy's piano, gift from Ellen Barkin for Hanukkah last year.

She actually uses it, not well, but you know, she's three. This is the kitchen where I burn my son's bacon. He calls me the burn monster, in fact, I take it as a term of endearment.

I am not a great cook. I'm gonna be real with you. However, one thing I do know how to do is barbecue and I have a beautiful barbecue right out there. I throw four or five dinner parties a summer.

The vibe is super informal, we set up a buffet right here. We have seating for 14 at this table and seating for another eight outside. I love these doors.

I love the vibe. It's the first thing I do in the morning is come downstairs and open the doors and let the day begin. I just think it's spectacular.

[ocean softly whooshing] The sound of the ocean for me is so therapeutic. You know, the sound of my children screaming usually is ringing through the house, but also the background is the ocean and the Grateful Dead.

My apologies, or you're welcome, depending on your point of view there. I've been coming out to the Hamptons for over 30 years. I have a lot of really close old friends who

are out here and the vibe of this house, it is a green light for all of my friends to have beach access and just a place for all of us to hang out. I love walking down to my beach right down there

and seeing it full of my friends, which is also part of the reason why my refrigerator is always full of bottles of Rose. I love this living area, it's super informal, it is super cozy.

These chairs are Brazilian, as is this couch, I have to say, you will find, at the end of the night, me in this chair and one kid here and one kid here. This is our story place and it just works perfectly.

We can all just kind of fall apart in these chairs together at the end of the day and it's just magic, it's a great vibe. [upbeat music] You know, I've always attracted to bold colors and in all of my homes, that's what you're gonna

find. We found this little old table, got it for next to nothing at Beall & Bell in Greenport. This coffee table I think is really cool. The kids use it as a place to color.

So this is a piece of art by Peter Dayton and he's a surfer himself and it basically reads like a flattened out Hobie surfboard and I love it, I love yellow. The ocean is super important to me.

I like to start the day by jumping in the ocean. I like to end the day by jumping in the ocean. The ocean is my absolute therapy.

When I'm not in the ocean, I am in my jacuzzi, cajuzzi as my son, Ben, calls it. [upbeat music] So this is the cajuzzi deck. This is where we start our days usually. You know what, I got no problem giving the kids