An inspiring Chicago apartment was featured on Small Space Big Style this week. The home of sculptor Mary Brogger was filled with unique solutions, beautifully integrated second hand finds and low-cost renovations.
The photo above shows a metal window treatment made by Mary. It is on a track so it can slide from its function as a privacy screen and light filter during the day to wall art above the small credenza in the evening. Elegant and so smart!
Ideas: Sticking vellum to the inside of the glass doors of the thrifted cabinet to "hide" its contents. Removing the bedroom door and replacing it with tri-fold piece (found in the alley!) to increase space.
Brogger's kitchen was full of good work as well. She replaced the small amount of outdated cabinets with low-cost (I think she said $600. total) basic white ones (IKEA?) and accented the area with mirrored walls and ball-bearing chain curtains. The effect is light, bright and very pleasant. By adding another wall-size thrifted storage piece on a right angle to the kitchen wall and pushing the refrigerator out to meet the end of the piece she defined the space and created a useful hidden (behind the fridge) storage area.
Mary Brogger created the Haymarket Memorial in the West Loop and has a piece in the current sculpture show in Grant Park, Automobiles.
Also on this episode: a segment on David and Im's San Diego apartment you may remember as one of the winners from the 2006 Smallest Coolest Contest!
If you missed it, SSBS Episode 306 will be airing again later today and next week: click here for the schedule.
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Would like to know if Mary does custom metal window panels for others? I am very interested!
I loved Mary's segment on the show. The way she used bits of mirrors... the paint color in the bedroom... everything was so well done. I'd love to see a House Tour on AT. Mary's outdid David & Im's by far!
Actually, it's not coming on "later today" it was on in the wee hours of the early morning, Friday, 8/11, at 3:30 a.m. ET, but will be re-aired on the 17th.
i loved mary's segment as well! my favorite part was the window treatment that's instantly art on the wall!! and andy and im's apartment was genius!! almost made me want a smaller place! ha!
I loved it as well, after the show, I googled her trying to find her personal email addy or website - no luck. I'd love to see what she charges to create the metal 'sculptural' window covering. I loved it - it was amazing!!! I'd even be happy to find something like it in white plastic. Delia's store in the local mall here has a huge wall in this baroque pattern, it's white cutout plastic in a similiar design. I'm dying to ask them about it. I've paid for store displays before - most stores are willing to sell them to you when they're done, of course if corporate doesn't require them back or if a store associate doesn't already have first dibs.
Holly
How much do we love SSBS. When it lands on my TiVO I watch immediately. Glad they got rid of the host. Nothing against him -- very Dean Cain -- it was just awkward.
Could someone please explain the upside-down xmas tree?
sorry for my ignorance...