- Okay, what habits did you change
when we moved in together?
- I stopped being lonely.
- Awe.
[laughing]
My heart.
[bright hip hop beat]
Hey, I'm Kim, and that's Kanye.
And we're gonna be doing our Design Quiz.
[bright hip hop beat]
Can I tell you guys a really
quick story about this house?
So, we got pregnant
and then I got pregnant
and then he had a house
in Los Angeles, Hollywood.
I had a house in Beverly Hills,
they were both like not that family-ish.
So we were going on a
walk one day and I said
this was my dream home, this house here.
And so he said, "I like it."
And to him, I like it was
like, oh my God, he loves it.
'Cause he doesn't really like anything.
- That's my specialty, not liking stuff.
[laughing]
- So I knew that it was gonna be
our dream home and that he
was gonna fully re-do it
and it was gonna be likable.
What's the one thing you would get rid of
if I wasn't around and why?
Okay, I'll tell you what I think.
I think it would be--
- The TV station that shows Dateline.
[laughing]
- Really?
But I love it, it like brings me calmness
at the end of my day.
- What would I get rid of?
- Rick and Morty, you think we can handle
Rick and Morty every single night?
- Well, it's been two years
since the new season started.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- I didn't know that,
we caught up last night.
- I mean, Axel's still
working on our next project.
We have these new designs we've been doing
with James Turrell and
Claudio Silvestrin and Axel,
so we'll be in the same rooms.
- His mind is always onto the next.
But I think if you were
to get rid of one thing
you would definitely get rid
of just stuff in my closet.
I feel like you think I'm
a hoarder in my closet.
If our house had a soundtrack,
what would it be and why?
I mean, I think Jesus Is King,
'cause that's just the vibe right now,
and that's the soundtrack right now.
- Yeah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
- Yeah, the kids love singing that.
What would you say?
- We always talk about
Wolves when see the hallway,
simple like [imitating song melody].
With my auto tune.
- [Kim] So just that one song.
- What room has the
best light for selfies?
- Ooh.
- She's like oh that was
the first thing I said.
Ooh, finally.
- I would honestly say the theater.
Because I like a dark room
and I like to use a flash,
with a dark room.
- When's the last time you used the pool?
- I've never used our pool actually.
- What?
- Yeah, can you believe that?
But I love our pool.
You know we don't even have a jacuzzi?
- Can you believe that?
Can you believe we don't have a jacuzzi?
- We just made sure that
it's hot all the time.
[laughing]
'Cause Kanye wanted, like
everyone wanted a jacuzzi
like weird off to the side
and we just wanted like
a really long front stair
which has been amazing.
'Cause all the babies
just sit on that stair
and like all the cousins come over.
- You said I wanted a jacuzzi
weird off to the side?
- No I wanted a jacuzzi.
- Oh okay.
That's like we had in the other house.
- And then everyone kept on designing them
off to the side and it
bothered you so much.
But the kids love to swim in a jacuzzi.
But so you said no, the
whole pool will be a jacuzzi,
just make it really warm like
the whole pool all the time.
We built this really long stair,
and it's not the deepest
pool so the kids love it.
[bright hip hop beat]
What three words would you use
to describe Axel Vervoordt?
- Bald.
- Him himself?
Or like his designs?
- Oh yeah.
I would say Axel's design
style is wabi-sabi.
- That's two words.
- Yeah so I only have to use one more.
Yeah so and, wabi and sabi.
That's three words.
- That is not what I would've guessed.
Here's what I think you would've said.
Three words.
Ugh I could do it in four.
I would think Kanye would say,
"Greatest of all time."
- Aw that's nice.
- Yeah you wish you did that.
What was your favorite thing
that you and Axel designed together?
- I'd say this hallway.
Just takin' this hallway that you love
when you found this house
and with me and Axel
we pushed it to minimize it and make
it as strong as possible
and as simple as possible.
What is your favorite
thing about the bathroom?
I would think that you
would say taking selfies.
- That's true.
- In the bathroom.
Yes.
- That's so true.
The lighting in the bathroom is so good
that it like smooths out all cellulite.
We have this light panel that we saw,
I think we saw it at like the Chanel store
or something and the whole
ceiling was this light.
And we did it, it's so cool.
The whole ceiling is just one giant light.
But it like smooths out everything
and so I start my day
off getting in the shower
feeling so good about myself
thinking like oh my god I really
like I've been working out
so hard my cellulite's going away.
And then I just go in the closet later
to get dressed and I realized
it was just the lighting.
- We need that kinda
lighting for the closet.
- Everyone's eyes need
that kinda lighting.
- [Producer] Do you guys
still have that infamous sink?
- Yes, we still have that
sink that everyone is like,
"How does this sink work?
"How does this exist?"
- Yeah we're designin' some new sinks now,
but Claudio worked on that sink.
He's the one that said,
"Pull it back from the wall."
And it has a more zen type of feelin'.
- Yeah the sink was up against the wall
and that was the big debate.
And so I was like well if I do make makeup
is it gonna be weird 'cause I'm so used
to having it up against the wall?
But then I just have way more mirror.
So it's amazing.
What room are you most proud of?
Okay wait, I'm gonna answer.
I feel like you're most
proud of your closet.
[laughs]
- Why is that?
- Because he completely took away
the bars in the closet and you
have like a whole new system
for how you like to fold your clothes
and how you like to organize your clothes.
It gives me full anxiety.
'Cause then you have to steam it
instead of it just being hung.
- I can see all my clothes in
the closet at the same time.
I just have 'em on uline racks.
- So is that your favorite room?
- It's not very Axel.
I would say my favorite room would be
the in inside of that Anish Kapoor.
I stare inside of that and say
we need to live inside of one of these.
Like a huge Kapoor.
- Yeah, okay, I was wrong.
- The bathroom is one of
my favorite rooms also.
Because of the way, its
the one that's most similar
to the concept of our
houses in the future.
Even though it's square and the other
houses are more organic.
But I love how the whole
side of the bathroom
is just blown out.
And that was Kris' idea, she was like,
"You guys need a bigger bathroom."
I was like oh a bigger bathroom?
And then it's like we
have that huge bathroom.
- That pushed our project
back by like eight months.
We had to continue to live with my mom
for like eight month.
- Thanks a lot Kris.
- Thanks a lot mom.
- [Kris] You're welcome.
[chuckles]
- You know it's somethin' me and Kim
always had in common with our houses
is we never had a lot of garish colors.
We both always had houses
that were this tone.
- What I love about having
such a minimal house,
I don't think I started off so minimal.
But after being with you
I became way more minimal.
Like there would be too much clutter
and I wouldn't be able
to get as much done.
I really believe if I had so
much more stuff everywhere.
For me, it's like how I organize
and how I get things done.
I know where every last thing is,
there's a place for
everything even if it's hidden
in the wall in a cabinet
that you can't see.
We do have a lot of stuff.
- Well that's the next
frontier for the closets
to be like an outright store,
because if you go to a
store you see everything
that is for sale so the closet the scale
probably has to be bigger.
So that everything can be visible.
But still laid out in a really nice way.
Because that lowers anxiety
just knowin' where your stuff is.
- Like more minimal?
- Yeah more minimal, more chill.
- Our lives are so hectic, and so crazy,
and there's always so much going on
that I love to come
home to full simplicity
and just lay in bed and just chi--
Like it's so calming to me.
[bright hip hop beat]
Okay, what was the inspiration
behind the design of our house?
[North yells]
[laughing]
We're in the middle of an interview.
- North is the inspiration for the design.
- You were an inspiration
for the design of our house.
We're in the middle of doing an interview.
- Ooh.
- [Kim] Kay will you be my card holder?
Actually--
- [North] No I'm looking.
- Okay go sit on that couch right there
and you could watch us.
- [North] No this is a good couch.
[laughing]
- No, no, no.
[laughing]
Oh you're there in the middle?
- [North] This is really good.
- You're in the middle of our shot, okay.
What was the inspiration
behind the design of our house?
- [North] I don't know.
- I'm not asking you the
question I'm asking dad.
[laughs]
- Well yeah, the kids.
Like say in athe backyard
there are all these stairs
and we wanted the kids,
or we needed the kids to be able
to ride their scooters
or skateboards around
and not have to stop at the stairs.
As many places as I could
take the stairs out I did.
Like I'll sit--
- I'm a kid.
- Yes, that's why you're the inspiration.
Kids are the inspiration
for all of our designs now,
movin' forward.
This is like a interim between--
- Can we get the bumpy stairs?
- That's what I'm sayin'.
- Where like the bumps--
- Bumpy everything.
- What's your favorite thing
to do with the kids at home?
What's your favorite
thing to do at this house?
- [North] I like to do--
- Dance competitions in the hallway?
- Gymnastics.
And cartwheels.
Dance competition, play
the piano, do my violin.
- In the summer you love to swim.
- And I like to find animals
and huuuuuuge
crystals.
[laughing]
- Really there's that big of crystals?
- There's some that big,
there's some bigger than dad.
- Wow.
- There's some little, little, little,
little, little miniature--
- Hey where's Hayden?
- Hayden?
Hayden?
- What is the most prized
possession in the house?
- You.
- Awe, thank you.
I was gonna say that.
I'm just kidding.
[laughing]
- Now do it again then say me.
- Who's your favorite house guest?
- Dave Chappelle.
- That's what I was gonna say.
Dave Chappelle.
I love when Dave comes over.
- But he ain't gon' put
his feet on our couch,
let me tell you that.
[laughing]
- All right thanks AD, for
joining us in our living room.
What do you even call this room?
I always get so confused, living room?
- Yeah, but we don't really
live in here that much.
Thanks AD for doin' the
Design Quiz with Kimye.
[laughing]
[bright hip hop beat]
