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Inside Neil Patrick Harris’ legendary house

IT TOOK Oscars host Neil Patrick Harris more than a year to renovate his five-storey house in Harlem. Now it’s ready and he wants to show it off.

Actor Neil Patrick Harris arrives for the Oscars Nominees' Luncheon hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, February 2, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The 87th Oscars will take place in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK
Actor Neil Patrick Harris arrives for the Oscars Nominees' Luncheon hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, February 2, 2015 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The 87th Oscars will take place in Hollywood, California February 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK

NEIL Patrick Harris and David Burtka are back where it all began.

The happy couple, who first met in New York, opened up their newly renovated Harlem brownstone to Architectural Digest for the magazine’s March issue.

Harris, 41, and Burtka, 39, recently moved into the five-story, late-19th-century townhouse, which took a year to renovate, with their 4-year-old twins, Gideon and Harper, after a decade out west.

William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.

New York based architect Jeffery Povero of Povero and Company collaborated with Los Angeles-based designer Trace Lehnhoff on the building’s renovation.

The move east was just part of a busy 2014 for the couple, one in which they wed, Harris wrapped up How I Met Your Mother and returned to Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a role that earned him a Tony Award.

Architectural Digest.
Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.
William Waldron, Architectural Digest.

“Getting married, moving, new jobs — we did all the things they say can ruin a relationship,” Burtka joked to the magazine.

And things show no signs of slowing down in 2015. Harris will host Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars, later this month, and is preparing his NBC variety show, while Burtka is set to star in the Broadway musical It Should Have Been You.

This article originally appeared in The New York Post.

Originally published as Inside Neil Patrick Harris’ legendary house

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