Celebrified homes: architecture and spacing celebrities

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The aim of this article is to consider how the notion of celebrity intersects with the home. In the first section we introduce the two case studies Grand Designs and MTV Cribs in the context of celebrification. In the theoretical framework, we set up our approach by bringing together Judith Butler in conversation with Sarah Ahmed to explore how the intersection between celebrity and space is both regulated and charged with affect. We then develop three themed sections to elaborate on our findings. The first section discusses how taste is performed through celebrities’ presentation of their homes. The second section looks to how narrow meanings of home in both series regulate notions of home as being ‘thick’ or ‘thin’. The third themed section looks more closely at how the notion of celebrity operates in relation to the kitchen. Finally, the conclusion elaborates on how the gap between celebrities and their fans narrows through an authentic self-production within their home, at the same time by maintaining their difference, literally, through the walls of the home–that ensure a sense of difference and separation.