Hailee Steinfeld and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen have welcomed their first child, the couple announced on April 2 in a brief Substack post: “Our baby girl has arrived!! We’re feeling incredibly grateful and blessed and savoring these early moments.” In the weeks before the birth, Steinfeld spoke with Architectural Digest about how she and Allen prepared their home and adjusted their decorating priorities for what she called a “new season of life.”
Steinfeld said designing with intention — a lesson from her mother, Cheri, who went into interior design after marrying Steinfeld’s father, Peter, in 1992 — guided the nursery and other updates. She and Allen wanted rooms that feel “bright and airy and comfortable,” with an emphasis on “warm, soft lighting.” The actress described balancing aesthetics with livability as the couple divides their time between Western New York, where Allen trains and plays, and California. “I want our spaces to be inviting — somewhere you could spend hours in and not get tired of,” she told AD.
Also new in Steinfeld’s public life is her role as the face of Ashley Furniture’s Ashley Luxe collection. The campaign includes a playful television spot in which Steinfeld becomes so taken with a boucle sofa that she rips it apart to wear as a gown, underlining her willingness to take risks in both fashion and home design. Her partnership with a mainstream furniture brand dovetails with the practical approach she described while readying a home for an infant: functionality and comfort, not just looks.
Small, everyday details made the cut as Steinfeld and Allen transitioned into parenthood. She singled out a Hatch sound machine as indispensable for creating slow, gentle mornings and mentioned buying a new coffee machine to preserve the ritual of making coffee on quieter days. In the kitchen, Steinfeld has leaned on a repeatedly tested weeknight favorite — a one-pot chicken, artichoke and orzo dish — a recipe she said she now improvises rather than follows, swapping in vegetables depending on the moment.
Steinfeld also discussed household routines and personal touches that reveal how they want family life to feel. Mealtimes are ideally tech-free, she said, though occasional couch meals happen; she’s flexible about small dogs on furniture as long as they’re clean and on a blanket. Her bedtime ritual is deliberately calming — dimming lights, skincare, a bath or shower, then quiet time with music or conversation — a design of the day that echoes her broader focus on how a home should feel rather than simply how it looks.
A sentimental element in the Steinfeld-Allen home is a porcelain, hand-painted sleeping pig they collected from the place they were married. The figure, associated with prosperity and good fortune, now sits among similar pieces around the house and embodies the combination of beauty and meaning Steinfeld said she’s trying to prioritize as she and Allen begin parenting together.