Name: Justin Shaulis Inc.
Location: Chelsea — New York, New York
Size: 3400 square feet
Years lived in: 7 years — owned
Welcome to a brilliantly designed loft space in Chelsea that was recently completed by Justin Shaulis in collaboration with his clients. Their dedication to creating something special and unexpected resulted in a classically modern space where delicate feelings of repose and warmth emerged.
Welcome to a brilliantly designed loft space in Chelsea that was recently completed by Justin Shaulis in collaboration with his clients. Their dedication to creating something special and unexpected resulted in a classically modern space where delicate feelings of repose and warmth emerged.
Albeit, the space had a great existing bone structure. One of the wonderful facets already in place included the entry way which is a half level higher than the main space. To take advantage of the openness, they did not want to crowd it with multiple seating groups. To that end, they began to develop a furniture plan that elongated the sofa, the armchair, and the tables so that each was in proportion to the space and to each other. The result was a 16 foot long sofa with a chaise the size of a queen bed and a 4 foot wide armchair long and deep enough to pull up your legs and curl in.
The space could easily have been a white Chelsea gallery box with sleek walls to show off the art and the furniture, but this is a home for a young vibrant family. The colors needed to support their varied interests and activities. The textures also needed to warm the space to the not only the eye but also the touch. The concept they put forward was to set off soft tones with earthy rich colors and cool sky hues with accents of pewter and autumn leaves. Color, flow, and materials sync benignly throughout the loft connecting each of the spaces.
The dining room supports the great room with a long glass top supported on two thick white marble plinths. The head chairs are high-backed while the side chairs are low-backed with the tops hovering just above the glass. The kitchen is rendered in warm cherry cabinetry and gray stone counters which echo the gray stone tile floor connecting it with the dining room. The media room beyond is where the warmth really comes through. Initially, the space was to be a wide hall with laundry, home office and the three bedrooms fed just off of it. However, an inset wool sisal, curving sofa and round game table gives purpose to the space. The warm cherry paneling - same as the kitchen's cabinetry - give breadth and height to the space while the landscape photography provides a view that balances the TV without competing.
The three bedrooms are each unique. There are two girls' rooms and a master bedroom. One girls' room is a Tiffany blue with crisp white accents and contemporary approaches on children's furniture. This room includes a custom back lit paneled crib / bed and a changing table with white locker compartments underneath. The other girl's room is a dreamscape based on a Grimm's fairytale. The birch forest wall art is echoed by the contemporary landscape photographs in the media room. The master bedroom is an oasis in tones of Moonshine, Fern Green and Soft Gray. Polished nickel accents the space giving it a glimmer. The grass cloth is foil-backed and reflective but also counterbalanced by the natural material and texture. The grass cloth covers the headboard wall and the ceiling. The furniture is appropriately sized and the mixture is both modern and classic showcasing oak, sycamore and walnut. All three bedrooms are connected via the deck which spans the width of the loft.
Resources of Note:
PAINT & COLORS
• Benjamin Moore Aura – too many to list
LIVING ROOM
• Sofa : Metro by Piero Lissoni in Maharam Fabric
• Floor lamps : Catherine Memmi
• Encaustic artwork : Ken Miller
• Area rug : Carini Lang
• Window Wall Cushions: Dune with Maharam Fabric
DINING ROOM
• Table : Zeta Extensible from Spacify
• Chandelier : Cellula
• Chairs: Apta Chair by B&B Italia
• Head Chairs: Darryl Carter for Thomsville with Crypton Fabric
KITCHEN
• Cabinetry : Custom Cherry-Faced
• Stools: Spoon by Kartell
MASTER BEDROOM
• Wallpaper : Stark
• Decorative Sconces : Global Views
• Reading Sconces : Tango Lighting
• Bed: De La Espada
• Nightstands, Dresser and Armoire: Custom
• Desk: Custom
CHILDREN’S BEDROOM 1 : DREAMSCAPE
• Bed : Brocade Home
• Birch forest wall art : Kamp Studios
• Chair: Anthropologie with COM Fabric from Crypton
• Ottoman: Vintage
• Dresser: Horchow
• Mirror: Brocade Home
• Draperies: Custom
CHILDREN’S BEDROOM 2 : TIFFANY BLUE
• Lockers: Vintage
• Changing Table Top: Custom
• Mirror Polished Stainless Steel wall accents from
• Bed: Room and Board
• Draperies: Custom
CHILDREN’S BEDROOM 2 : DREAMSCAPE
• Bed : Brocade Home
• Birch forest wall art : Kamp Studios
• Chair: Anthropologie with COM Fabric from Crypton
• Ottoman: Vintage
• Dresser: Horchow
• Mirror: Brocade Home
• Draperies: Custom
Powder Room
• Art Panels: Sublime Living
• Plumbing Fixtures: Duravit
MEDIA ROOM
• Sofa: Menlo Park from American Leather
• Table and Coffee Table: Knoll Saarinen
• Chairs: Apta Chair by B&B Italia
• Photographs : Marko MacPherson
• Inset Carpet: Ford Lininger
• Stool: SoHo Concept
Thanks, Justin!
Images: Beth Bates
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Comments (48)
I love the warm pink tones. So cozy.
Where is this comforter from?
I love it.
Wow, it's incredibly huge. How much a loft like this would cost me nowadays?
3400 sq. ft. in Manhattan? A small fortune!
Gordon Gecko lives!
It's just ok. Nothing spectacular except the size and location.
The dining set looks funny -- the head chairs look like giant mammals and beside them are 6 tiny offsprings :)
Is it just me or does this look like an IKEA catalogue?
It looks like you have painted a mural of birch trees reminiscent of Cole and Sons famous wallpaper in your second bedroom. I love it! I am planning to do the same thing in my home. Do you have any tips? I am thinking of using a projector. If that's what you did, where did you find your image? Still looking for one that will be large enough...
Wow!
Don't I remember very similar birch trees (with a tutorial link) posted a week or two ago in this very forum? Same color background, too... Who deserves the credit, I wonder? (Nice design, and one I'm probably going to steal for the Library where I work!)
the fairytale room is awesome
meh
I found it impressive that they actually made a loft feel soft, homey and comfortable. Not an easy task. I do think that the decorator played it a little bit too safe. The oddly large head chairs at the dining table do not constitute as quirky or even ecclectic. They come off as simply being out of place.
Is it just me or does this look like an IKEA catalogue?
It's just you.
There's a lot of brilliant stuff here, like the thrones and modern built-ins in the dining room, the "art panels" in the powder room, and the subtle wallpaper in the master bedroom.
Although I am a little weirded out by the thought of a loft that's only just above street level. That's just wrong! Wrong, I tell you!
For a second I thought these were the Room & Board show rooms....
Where is the warmth?...
That is an unbelievable apartment! That said, I find the decor rather drab and lifeless. It should be as spectacular as the space.
My own design fantasies run more to tree houses.
The pink lighting would drive me nuts, I hope that's just a photo phenomenon. I love the wallpaper in the bedroom, but I have nightmares about taking it down.
Pyrexmaniac -- It's a stuffed animal. You know, the kind bought in toy stores. The "taxidermy" squirrel is as real as the "taxidermy" fox by the lamp on the nightstand.
While I have no illusions or desires to aspire to this loft I did enjoy looking at it. I really liked the doors to the bedrooms and the living area right outside of them.
Thanks for the tour.
I love that it's across the street from Home Depot!
Its an amazing home !!! I love the birch tree mural. The furniture in the house would be the pieces i would want in my house !!! I just feel like the house is missing the cozy home feeling ... other than that i love it !!!
They did an amazing job with this home loft. It's so warm!!
Yes, it's very nice. I guess I'm just not in the mood to see how the uber-wealthy living in 3400 square feet in Chelsea are decorating their spaces.
The little girl's room with the tree wallpaper is fantastic. Wish it were my room right now!
Absolutely fabulous! It makes me ache to have money and the space to be able to do something similar. I love the little girls room - it was what I dreamed of having as a child. The only thing I didn't like was the bathroom artwork.
Good grief what do people do that can afford these spaces and furniture? I feel like the tiffany blue room daughter got slided a bit, the other child's room is truly spectacular. Had fun looking - thanks!
The birch wall paper is credited to Kamp Studios and a link is provided. Just keep reading down and you ' ll see all the resources.
It had it's spectacular moments and it's titanic moments. The fireplace looks so very tiny. The girls bedroom looked like it had multiple personality disorder, so discordant it was painful to the eye. Couldn't even call that eclectic.
Other bedrooms were brilliant and soothing. Loved the master. Loved the flaming orange/ red wood on the walls, great lighting choices.
This looks like a showroom to me. I wouldn't want to live here.
Some of the spaces looked comfortable, some looked like a design showroom, but all of it was lovely-but I would hope so considering what the budget must have been! You might want to rethink that shelf above the futon in nursery. Bad placement - one of the primary principles of feng shui mandates that for restful sleep you should not have things "hanging over your head". Just a thought.
For those of you inquiring about the price of said apartment given it's McMansionesque size/sq-footage and Chelsea location, this apartment (pre-remodel and re-design) last sold in 2008 for $7.5 Million according to public record.
It seems too sterile to be a comfy home. I was glad to see window treatments in some of the bedrooms though. It was too "corporate" looking for my taste. But each to his own....
It's hard to not be floored by the amount of space and the amount of wealth it takes to own this. Putting that aside, there's much to like and a couple of things to hate. I like the living room, but think the dining looks incredibly uncomfortable, even bizarre. I thought the family room very smartly laid out, until I saw that the three bedroom doors open updirectly onto that space. Yuck. Deal killer. No way. In that price range that is not a design solution, it is a design flaw!
The master and the Grimm's room are charming.
Gorgeous! Every room has so much personality. I would never do the colors in my apartment because some of the stuff is traditional looking, but it all looks so good together - warm, full of personality, and interesting. I wish I had such an aesthetic - my place would have been more interesting!
Birch tree and fern art - beautiful. The bed in childs room #1 - WOW. The trees in child's room - wallpaper or the vinyl cling stuff? Very clean, comfy and uncluttered - the way I aspire my home to be! Thanks for sharing.
Sweet merciful crap.
yeah, it might be more rare to see a 3400 sq ft. home featured, but it is still cool.
this is a magnificent place! 4****!
Wow, that is a big pile of nothing. There are a few interesting items, but on the whole there have been a hundred examples of amateur designers' work on this site that are vastly superior to this professional design. Such a missed opportunity to make something special of an unusual space.
It looks like a model apartment. I guess it was staged for these photos. AND... for that kind of money, I wouldn't live on 23rd Street facing Home Depot.
:( It doesn't look like an Ikea catalogue because it isn't half as warm or cozy.
Nursery kid was shafted. Everything else looks expensive, rather than nice or warm or good. It is grand and stunning but it doesn't look like home. I would love to live in that space and location but yeah, it looks like a set up for some kind of trade show. I wish I liked it more...or I wish it was more likeable.
Do people with kids really have big white couches?!
What a waste! Sorry, but that kind of money can do much better. You show places of reduced square footage every day that outdo this vacuous outrage. Let's get real, folks.
Wow this is my dream place due to the space and location. I would love to someday have something like this.
The two over-sized navy blue armchair on two ends of the dining table is just horrid to me. It just looks tacky in my own opinion, and it's not comfortable as a guest sitting in the middle chair. Pretty horrid.
OMgosh! I've been meaning to sell the duvet in the master bedroom for about a year now. Thank God for procrastination. The embroidery looks so much better than I expected. The house is awesome. Love Gretel's room.
This is a really chic space. Congrats on being able to create a family home in the middle of the city where it's a hard task. And any warmth that this home lacks will soon be but a memory when the family with two little girls gets comfortable in it.
I love seeing what everyday people do with a modest budget, and a challenging space on this site. Therefore, this place does nothing for me.
holy shit
sorry...am I allowed to write that?? Sugar.. I meant sugar
3400 sq ft in NYC? omg omg omg. at least 7 million! dayyyum!
Very lovely and warm - I imagine this is very difficult to achieve in a loft!
I guess some of the nasty comments relating to the cost of this space is simply because they would never be able to afford it themselves. Why can't you all just appreciate things for what they are?
Well done on both the decoration and for being successful enough to afford such an amazing space!