Interior designer and television host Jeremiah Brent explores the emotional meaning of home in
this warm and inviting book that illuminates what make peoples’ spaces so personally
significant. For many of us our houses are more than just where we hold our belongings. They
are reflections of who we are and where we’ve been. They represent our aesthetics our
personalities – provide us with purpose and intention and if we’re lucky a safe space to live
and create. For years Jeremiah Brent and his family lived in one beautiful home after the
next. Yet after a short time they always felt the pull to move on. Curious to understand why
he embarked on a deeply personal mission to discover what makes a home a space that keeps you.
The Space That Keeps You isn’t just a study of beautiful interior design it’s an emotional
design book that explores what gives spaces meaning. Through candid conversations with nine
individuals and families varying in backgrounds lifestyles and geographic locations Jeremiah
reveals how and why the spaces we inhabit come to feel like they truly belong to us—the
memories emotions and stories that shape what home signifies. He introduces memorable people
like the artist couple James and Alexandra Brown and their children who made an abandoned plot
in Merida Mexico their accidental paradise and Tracy and Brian Robbins who found refuge
during the pandemic in a serene single-story home in Montecito surrounded by fields of
lavender. He illuminates a personal side of Oprah Winfrey as she speaks to the importance of
nature in her dream of home and describes the story of Giberto and Bianca Arrivabene who
fought to hold onto their family’s historic Venetian palazzo. Their stories are bookended by
Jeremiah’s recollections of his own journey defining home with his husband fellow interior
designer and television personality Nate Berkus and their two children. Filled with intimate
meaningful details—from the kitchen that now nourishes the grandchildren of the adoring couple
who first cooked there fifty years ago to the beams of one apartment’s walls that are etched
with hearts to literally represent the love that fills it—and accompanied by 300 inviting and
inspiring color photographs— The Space That Keeps You illustrates the essence of what makes a
house a home. Just like Jeremiah himself readers will leave this book with a newfound
appreciation for the places that connect and shape us.
