Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s newly-renovated apartment in NYC's Greenwich Village features holiday decorations with a vintage, old-Parisian ambiance as glowing with sentiment as the sun-drenched space itself. The Nate and Jeremiah Home Project hosts are celebrating their first Christmas back in the home they vacated in 2016 for a stint on the West Coast. And if watching Jeremiah tear up thinking about his kids ringing in Christmas morning under their tree doesn't bring you to full-on tears, this festive tour might.

In many ways, this apartment turned out to be like a first love: impossible to forget. East Coast nostalgia brought Nate and Jeremiah back to Manhattan only three years after their move West, but it wasn’t until two years into their new New York lives that this apartment went up for sale again. Ecstatic, they dropped everything (including a stunningly remodeled townhome in the West Village) to return to the space where they’d once lived, this time with their kids Oskar (4) and Poppy (7) in tow. And, as sometimes happens with first loves, the sweet reunion was emotional — even more so during the holidays.

Nate and Jeremiah mix festive decor with their year-round accessories for a subtle, high-design holiday effect. Case in point: In the entry, seasonal branches (currently olive) rest in a reclaimed stone pot. Garland hung by Jeremiah and Oskar complements the rest of the room's greenery while playing against the aged, black-and-white Spanish tile flooring.

"My trick to holiday decorating is to start simple, then I keep peppering things in when Nate’s not expecting it,” says Jeremiah. Nate, on other hand, admittedly takes a less-is-more approach. Their happy medium lies in pairing seasonal with year-round and vintage, while sticking to the home's warm, neutral color palette. “If left to my own devices there would be 16 trees, 37 wreaths and everything would have garland on it,” says Jeremiah.