Name: Erika Everett Yeaman
Location: Dallas, Texas
Size: 2,000 square feet
Years lived in: 18 months
In June, we featured the beautifully designed Dallas restaurant Alma, which was skillfully done by Erika Everett Yeaman. After that, we just had to get into her own home! Erika's degree in Interior Architecture, coupled with studies around the world, mesh beautifully in her sense of decor and styling. We weren't let down when we got this fantastic peek into her Dallas home.
Erika Everett Yeaman's home is full of personality and interesting detail. Her travels and studies around the world shine through her decorating sensibility, and it's clear that her skills as an interior designer are strong! One of our favorite aspects of her home, as well as her own favorite, is a sophisticated yet vibrant and cozy nursery for her daughter Olivia. That, and we have a tremendous amount of jealousy regarding her art wall! Take a peek at her classic, eclectic and captivating home!
Apartment Therapy Survey:
Inspiration: Life. I think your home should be a direct reflection of the way you live and your personality. We love art and travel. There are many elements that reflect our creative side as well as past explorations.
Favorite Element: I love Olivia's nursery — although it is a room and not an element. It is so playful and I feel the energy and sense of adventure it embodies has helped to shape her personality.
Biggest Challenge: Working with what we have, rather than buying perfect pieces for the space. We always knew this would be a temporary home. Also, designing around a little one. Our daughter, Olivia, just turned one and is all over everything. It is a challenge to keep things out of her way while maintaining balance.
What Friends Say: It is lively, comfortable and creative.
Biggest Embarrassment: I would love to paint the walls a whiter color to brighten the space a bit, but we are moving in 6 months to a house we are currently renovating and the cost is prohibitive. It drives me crazy at times though.
Proudest DIY: Our art wall.
Biggest Indulgence: Wallpaper on the ceiling of my daughter's nursery. The design is of hummingbirds fluttering about. For children, especially babies, they spend quite a bit of time staring at the ceiling. We call the birds her friends.
Best Advice: Take things one step at a time. Never try to do a design project all at once. It is good to see how you will live in a space and let the changes evolve with you.
Dream Sources: I love to find a hidden treasure, so I spend plenty of time scouring markets and antique stores, but for this house we tapped into my husband's mothers collection of antiques. We feel like her spirit lives with us here and it is very special to have that.
Thanks, Erika!
Images: Erika Everett Yeaman
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I love the look of rooms that have been collected over time rather than purchased all at once.
I do love that she's mixed different styles (I love the little mid-century side table in the nursery). But I think overall, it's just a tad too busy for my taste.
I struggle with mix and matching. I like so many different styles, but I also like order and neatness and similarity. Each side of my brain fights with each other about a sense of style.
She just needs to subtract a little. She's done a good job with a space that doesn't possess a lot of character.
I love it. You can't tell what cost a fortune and what did not. I'm not saying that anything looks cheap. I think the opposite is true.
Great, wallpaper on the ceiling. What a gift to the next inhabitants.
I really love this and you can tell how much you loves the things you collect. What hooked me right away was the black and white boppy pillow in the first picture! Do you still use it or is it just part of your decor now? My boys have outgrown ours, but I just can't part with it. Maybe I'll find a cute cover to go with my living room. Thanks for sharing!
Oops, how much you "love" the things you collect. Sorry.
When I read that you're planning to move in six months, all I could think of was taking down and packing all those pictures. Then I thought about all the holes in the wall...
Good luck in your new place!
Ok, this is a nice home, and, I like shelter mags as much as the next person. But isn't this site supposed to be about "apartment" therapy? When I first found AT I was really excited to find something so relevant to urban living, and it's just become much more broad in the past year. I dunno, this is a nice large home in Dallas, I don't understand why we're looking at it.
I really like it, especially the rugs (I'm looking for a rug for my house, so I am super sensitive to rugs right now). Looks much more "travel inspired" than the other "travel inspired" apartment that was posted today.
@smariel -- Actually, this place give off an apartment (as opposed to house) vibe to me. The text doesn't say (using the ambiguous "home" instead of house or apartment). Something about the dearth of windows, though, and the layout, seems more apartment-like. Although, at 2000 sq ft, that's a BIG apartment ... but isn't everything bigger in Texas? ;-)
Oops -- gives, not give.
I want to see more of the nursery. Your home is awesome :)
I love the feeling of spaciousness - my dogs would love to tear through your living room!
The place just oozes comfort and coziness.
I love everything that i saw in those pictures above.. it's really close to perfection for me ha.more post hopefully.
Love the wallpaper on the ceiling! How lovely to gaze upon it while you are in bed. Must be a bugger of a job to install though...
Statia - the side table(s) in the nursery are a Russel Wright design for Conant Ball. Fairly collectible and a beautiful simple vintage modern design.
I personally am digging the pair of Wassily B3 / Marcel Breuer chairs in the living room which somehow manage to make the wood and white vinyl Gunlocke office chairs look much more elegant than they actually are. I wish I could be this eclectic!
I love that master bedroom. I would hang in there all day.
Overall the whole place is great, but with every photos I kept thinking "too many chairs!"
I have to comment on the survey comment that the owner wished she could paint the walls whiter to brighten the apartment more. Whiter walls won't help that. I think you need to look more at the contents. I was not surprised to read that you pulled from you mother in law's collection. It really looks that way - I looked at the pictures before I read the survey and thought, "this apartment feels like an older 60+, single, woman's home". I think that you really have some wonderful pieces...I just think you have an overwhelming amount of it and I'd personally edit more and incorporate more current fabrics, furniture, art, etc to get that brighter energy and light in your home.
HA! I posted yesterday that it was too busy/cluttered for my tastes. Let's see if today the mods will let that (negative) comment through.
I love the dining room area, but the living room just reminds me too much of a grandparent's house (you know, with a life's worth of stuff and furniture that hasn't been updated in ages).
You have beautiful pieces - just too many of them for my taste! I would edit a bit...
ruggedly handsome...busy homey...dated yet lovely.If you have them all show them...no point on keeping them in the box if you really love them and have the space...and it seems you are a sentimental collector. Now that is personal!
It's funny, I read the negative comments, but all I can think is, "This apartment is soooo Dallas!" It really is! That's just the style in that city: big, over the top, and heavy. And there's something about Texas, you just aren't afraid to pull out grandma's stuff... Maybe it's the same way that the East Coast loves historic buildings--Texas doesn't have historic buildings, so we like historic stuff!
And this is definitely an apartment. Y'all haven't seen how big apartments can get in Dallas!
Texas doesn't have historic buildings?? I lived in Texas (DFW area) for 9 months and visited Austin, San Antonio and many other small towns quite often. You need to get out more Zhahira - historic Texas buildings are everywhere.
Sorry,but I agree with designerchick, there's too much stuff and none of it modern enough for my taste. Also, way too many visual distractions.