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The keys to living well in an apartment of a few meters and making the experience great
November 15, 2023
Designers and influencers from the United States take on the challenge of setting and finding the identity and soul of apartments of a few meters.
Maitri Mody is a fashion influencer and provides advice for those who live within a few meters and can solve their decorationmaitrimody.com.
“Probably, when we close our eyes and think of a small apartment, we find white walls, lack of lighting and poor storage,” said Nate Berkus.
Berkus, the famed interior designer, stood in a bright bathroom outfitted with furniture he designed for Apartment Therapy's “Small/Cool NYC,” a temporary exhibition in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The event, which took place during consecutive weekends during October, it is halfway between a showroom-type house and a showroom.
The possibility of generating windows in ceilings so that natural light enters when it is not possible on the walls.
More than a dozen 2 x 2 meter room designs, imagined by creators as fresh as Maitri Mody, a fashion influencer who posts on Instagram under the name Honey I Dressed the Pug, and as experienced as the host of the show interviews and domestic strategist Drew Barrymore : offers tips for relaxing in small spaces . Visitors can steal ideas like Mody's choice to use hardware shaped like fruits and vegetables in kitchen cabinets.
“I want every room to be a solution as well as attractive,” said Maxwell Ryan, who founded Apartment Therapy with his brother, Oliver Ryan, as a design blog for urbanites in 2004 and has overseen its development into a company. media with multiple branches. Dorm Therapy , a design platform run by a network of college students, is the latest.
An influencer recommends using fruit and vegetable straps in kitchen cupboards@honeyidressedthepug.
“Small/Cool” began when the Ryan brothers, inspired by the College Humor website's NCAA-style tournament, with brackets, to find “the hottest college girl,” asked readers to post photos of their cool, compact homes so that others vote.
“Looking back, that was not in good taste,” he said.
The contest eventually lost steam and was retired several years later, but “it came back with a bang” during the pandemic, Ryan said. When he revived it, his team proposed a non-competitive add-on that would have products and solutions that visitors could interact with and purchase, reminiscent of the time when department stores like Bloomingdale's displayed furniture in realistic, room-like environments . of real sizes.
A great option for spaces of a few meters are desks that fold out or that do not have legs to put drawers or storage spaces underneath.
After a couple of efforts that took on a virtual dimension due to the pandemic, the real-life pop-up version of “Small/Cool NYC” fully materialized last year in SoHo. The current edition takes place in Industry City, Brooklyn's shopping and manufacturing complex.
Each guest decorator was given a theme.
Kim White, a New York designer, tackled her theme, “House of Hacks,” with a desk that folds out from a wall and a table that can be raised and lowered by remote control for dining or coffee.
Carmen René Smith, a self-described maximalist designer and artist in Oakland, California, approached her theme, “Parisian Pastiche,” with a mix of rococo, deco and surrealist ingredients and a fireplace filled with liquor bottles intertwined with fairy lights.
DuVäl Reynolds, interior designer DuVäl Design, LLC
“My brief was to take inspiration from a major fashion house,” said DuVäl Reynolds, a designer from Virginia. He imagined a private parlor that would be appreciated by a heritage-respecting grandson of Ralph Lauren who seriously deviated from the family That room, with its checkered walls, cowhide rug, mid-century modern furniture, and black chandelier with After all, it's what Lauren might have styled if she were channeling Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, perhaps with a touch of Miss Kitty, the saloon keeper from the long-running TV Western "Gunsmoke."
“Most people think a bar has to be something big and clunky with a lot of storage space,” Reynolds said. But the only really identifiable markers are a counter and stools, he added, and the counter may be a piece of driftwood wrapped in sticky paper that looks remarkably like stone and is held by brackets to the wall. He was so conscious of his limited space that he used fake, hollowed-out books to store bar items.
Hollie Velten-Lattrell, a New Jersey designer, said her theme, “Hipstoric Nowstalgia,” fit perfectly with her studio's emphasis on old finds brought to life through new woodworking and upholstery.
“I was trying to include experiences instead of things,” he said, noting that a common misperception of small rooms is that furniture should be arranged around the periphery . By creating a central conversation area dominated by a sofa , she created small side nooks for enjoying music (“a listening booth”) and sipping cocktails (“a bistro”). The ruffled top of the sofa has the dual benefit of hiding stains on the original upholstery and hiding excess items under the skirt.
When asked if much has changed in small space design since he founded Apartment Therapy nearly two decades ago, Ryan said, “My gut tells me no. Suppliers change and styles change, but solutions are something non-perishable .”
A narrow environment well used Airbnb
His goal for the platform was always “to talk about that first moment when you arrive at that first home,” he said, adding that he hopes to serve an audience of newbies forever.
“Martha Stewart taught an entire generation how to set a table, make a bed and paint a wall for the first time,” he said. “It's not so much that things change, but that we keep doing it over and over again.”
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November 15, 2023
Designers and influencers from the United States take on the challenge of setting and finding the identity and soul of apartments of a few meters.
Maitri Mody is a fashion influencer and provides advice for those who live within a few meters and can solve their decorationmaitrimody.com.
“Probably, when we close our eyes and think of a small apartment, we find white walls, lack of lighting and poor storage,” said Nate Berkus.
Berkus, the famed interior designer, stood in a bright bathroom outfitted with furniture he designed for Apartment Therapy's “Small/Cool NYC,” a temporary exhibition in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. The event, which took place during consecutive weekends during October, it is halfway between a showroom-type house and a showroom.
The possibility of generating windows in ceilings so that natural light enters when it is not possible on the walls.
More than a dozen 2 x 2 meter room designs, imagined by creators as fresh as Maitri Mody, a fashion influencer who posts on Instagram under the name Honey I Dressed the Pug, and as experienced as the host of the show interviews and domestic strategist Drew Barrymore : offers tips for relaxing in small spaces . Visitors can steal ideas like Mody's choice to use hardware shaped like fruits and vegetables in kitchen cabinets.
“I want every room to be a solution as well as attractive,” said Maxwell Ryan, who founded Apartment Therapy with his brother, Oliver Ryan, as a design blog for urbanites in 2004 and has overseen its development into a company. media with multiple branches. Dorm Therapy , a design platform run by a network of college students, is the latest.
An influencer recommends using fruit and vegetable straps in kitchen cupboards@honeyidressedthepug.
“Small/Cool” began when the Ryan brothers, inspired by the College Humor website's NCAA-style tournament, with brackets, to find “the hottest college girl,” asked readers to post photos of their cool, compact homes so that others vote.
“Looking back, that was not in good taste,” he said.
The contest eventually lost steam and was retired several years later, but “it came back with a bang” during the pandemic, Ryan said. When he revived it, his team proposed a non-competitive add-on that would have products and solutions that visitors could interact with and purchase, reminiscent of the time when department stores like Bloomingdale's displayed furniture in realistic, room-like environments . of real sizes.
A great option for spaces of a few meters are desks that fold out or that do not have legs to put drawers or storage spaces underneath.
After a couple of efforts that took on a virtual dimension due to the pandemic, the real-life pop-up version of “Small/Cool NYC” fully materialized last year in SoHo. The current edition takes place in Industry City, Brooklyn's shopping and manufacturing complex.
Each guest decorator was given a theme.
Kim White, a New York designer, tackled her theme, “House of Hacks,” with a desk that folds out from a wall and a table that can be raised and lowered by remote control for dining or coffee.
Carmen René Smith, a self-described maximalist designer and artist in Oakland, California, approached her theme, “Parisian Pastiche,” with a mix of rococo, deco and surrealist ingredients and a fireplace filled with liquor bottles intertwined with fairy lights.
DuVäl Reynolds, interior designer DuVäl Design, LLC
“My brief was to take inspiration from a major fashion house,” said DuVäl Reynolds, a designer from Virginia. He imagined a private parlor that would be appreciated by a heritage-respecting grandson of Ralph Lauren who seriously deviated from the family That room, with its checkered walls, cowhide rug, mid-century modern furniture, and black chandelier with After all, it's what Lauren might have styled if she were channeling Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner, perhaps with a touch of Miss Kitty, the saloon keeper from the long-running TV Western "Gunsmoke."
“Most people think a bar has to be something big and clunky with a lot of storage space,” Reynolds said. But the only really identifiable markers are a counter and stools, he added, and the counter may be a piece of driftwood wrapped in sticky paper that looks remarkably like stone and is held by brackets to the wall. He was so conscious of his limited space that he used fake, hollowed-out books to store bar items.
Hollie Velten-Lattrell, a New Jersey designer, said her theme, “Hipstoric Nowstalgia,” fit perfectly with her studio's emphasis on old finds brought to life through new woodworking and upholstery.
“I was trying to include experiences instead of things,” he said, noting that a common misperception of small rooms is that furniture should be arranged around the periphery . By creating a central conversation area dominated by a sofa , she created small side nooks for enjoying music (“a listening booth”) and sipping cocktails (“a bistro”). The ruffled top of the sofa has the dual benefit of hiding stains on the original upholstery and hiding excess items under the skirt.
When asked if much has changed in small space design since he founded Apartment Therapy nearly two decades ago, Ryan said, “My gut tells me no. Suppliers change and styles change, but solutions are something non-perishable .”
A narrow environment well used Airbnb
His goal for the platform was always “to talk about that first moment when you arrive at that first home,” he said, adding that he hopes to serve an audience of newbies forever.
“Martha Stewart taught an entire generation how to set a table, make a bed and paint a wall for the first time,” he said. “It's not so much that things change, but that we keep doing it over and over again.”
https://buysellba.com/news-/-media/f/properties-the-keys-to-living-well-in-a-small-apartment
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