Love. Love. Love. What great work. I am so inspired to keep my art collection going now! How did you go about framing out the windows? Brilliant. Congrats on a lovely home. Color me jealous.

Well, hello neighbor. I think your apartment looks clean and airy. Your landlord did a great job with renovating the apartment, very little is original to those brick and brownstone buildings. I love the exposed brick, the floors the kitchen and bath.....but what is with that cheap hardware store light fixtures? Also, recessed lighting in the bedroom just looks odd to me.
I love most of the artwork and your work spaces are very neat. Does that JFK piece really say "You Let Him Die"?

Nice apartment.

I am absolutely infatuated with how you framed out those windows. It's an absolutely stunning idea!

Yay! Real art!!

I LOVE your space! And I especially admire that rug. It's the perfect thing to anchor your industrial-meets-natural vibe, without stealing the show.

Helllloooooo, Cameron...

The art is great but what I really love about this place is how well they've furnished their apartment. It has a very contemorary feel without the sterility and everything seems to complement the exposed brick. Overall a very good job!

I hate to say it but they may be better off moving that little TV to another room like the kitchen or bedroom. It's placed at an odd angle from the couch and the sidechair is too far away. It's presence at the current location seems almost vestigial. I'm guessing the couple doesn't watch much TV so they probably won't miss it.

something about the amount of exposed cords, trashcan and multiple fans (is that what they are?) makes this otherwise pretty main living room feel cluttered to me.

lovely brick wall! i love the very cool artwork collection + cluster of mirrors. thanks for sharing the artists info - look forward to looking up their work!

jessica
http://jessicafulkerson.blogspot.com/

the tour looks great guys! the space in person is even more fantastic...

:O)

I find it interesting that Kate's upbringing ws in a home with "little sentamentality for stuff" -- but then it is listed as a source of inspiration: "Kate's parents’ 200 year-old Connecticut home" -- seems a tad contradictory.

But it is nice to see a place with real art.

Love it. You guys have great taste. Very clean and simple. One of the first house tours to be less cluttered in weeks.

yup, it's an apartment.

Its a great apartment and the artwork is definitely unique and interesting...

I just can't get excited about the furnishings or their arrangement - It's such as shame to obscure the natural focal point of the room by placing a desk in front of the old fireplace and dividing up the great living space w/ an IKEA shelf when there's an entire wall across the room that's begging for some attention.

And the visual clutter from the workspaces and dressing areas would drive me batty - The place needs some doors and enclosed storage.

Thanks for all the lovely comments. All in all we really lucked out with this apartment!

nycwife: Yes, the painting does say "You Let Him Die." Frankly we were more drawn to the painting's aesthetics than its political message. ; )

illegal danish: You're right we don't watch much TV. In fact Cameron watches zero TV. When I do on occasion I lie on the sofa which works OK.

CAjess323 : I believe you're referring to the litter box? We have a very large living room so making use of the space is more of a priority than keeping it 100% clutter free.

Mid-C Frank: I can see what you mean. I wouldn't necessarily say that my childhood household had "little sentimentality for stuff" but that it was common practice to take a critical eye to anything we weren't actually using.

so why is the litter box in the living room....?

no complaints here... i like the place

I love all of the brick as well-I'd love to have that in my home. I think the art is fantastic-you can never have enough imo. The one and only thing that gets to me is the office space. I don't think I could get anything done with all of the exposed clutter sitting above the computer. I can understand about lack of space but I think I'd try to get something to hide it or at least make it appear less like clutter if possible-maybe magazine boxes or something. Otherwise I LOVE your place!

as far as the work spaces, this is nyc and there's no other room for them to put it. and as people who work a lot from home, what else should they do. and please remember before you say, build a wall or put things behind closed doors, some people work better with their things 'out' and i think they've done a great job putting things away while it still being out.

the thing about these house tours is that everyone lives and prioritizes differently. they've designed the space for them and their needs not to please the masses and not throwing a ton of money at everything. that money is saved for what they obviously love: their art...

What a delightful apartment... so serene and welcoming. Kate and Cameron seem like such lovely people as well!

i like it!

i love you mix of antiques and modern. i am trying to do the same thing nd it is challenging. also enjoyed your artwork.

Thanks, guys!

hunted: Our cat is a male Maine Coon named Darwin. We also have a female, Yoko, but she is camera-shy. They are wonderful companions!

this would be my dreamspace, including all the art.

gvollrath.com

I love all your buitiful pieces! Could take a glass of wine and tour your place!!

It's really bright and airy, but the JFK poster creeps me out, too.

i've had a long, narrow living room similar to yours -- very hard to make it work and you did a great job. i love all of the living room furniture, especially the rug and the couch. the kitchen is beautiful and the pendant you chose compliments it nicely.

exposed brick = heaven

The space looks fabulous. Great idea to put the desk infront of the fire place. We had one we never used and it was basically dead space. Which I'd thought of this then.

Lovely apartment - very tasteful. One question please.....where did you get that lovely area rug in the living room from?
Thanks

Nice bright space with a truckload of interesting art. & I love the exposed brick walls. The things I don't like about this space fall under the category of "Practical Yet Unappetizing"-- i.e. the litterbox in the seating area in the living room. I'm a cat person--but I can't imagine having to sit 2 feet away when one of the felines makes a deposit. Also, not so crazy about the placement of the large garbage can at the entrance of the kitchen.

The picture above the fireplace should be of a larger scale. The tiny one looks lost up there. And I'd should never cover a fireplace with a desk. I question the placement of the furniture in the livingroom but whatever works for you.

pretty pretty. predictable.
but pretty.

the brick walls are fuckin great. art looks awesome too. well mixed vintage & ikea, but it's still coming off a bit late american garage sale with ikea features.

the whole space wants for refinement & maturity - but it's on the way...you cats are gonna have fun figuring it out :) thanks for sharing

As a bit of a retired artist, I'd like to share this article with you (http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=5ZNOPXBQRF66&preview=article&linkid=4e9ffa03-a6f7-432e-a7c6-285a3dceed03&pdaffid=ZVFwBG5jk4Kvl9OaBJc5%2bg%3d%3d). It's a rarity that really speaks true to the modern artistic community.

So if you have a bit of time, this one's not a bad read.

Siska, it's a little rich for someone who swears in their posts to lecture others on "refinement and maturity". Or are we supposed to admire your earthy directness?

As for the apartment, I love the scope of the art collection but I'd like to see some large scale works to balance the innumerable small ones.

blandwagon, hiya
i think the space reflects the fact that it's only been with its inhabitants for less than a year - in that there are some details that they'll figure out down the road (maturity) & enjoy doing so (refining the process). example include sightlines, cohesive colour schemes, and a culling of multiple art pieces.

didn't mean to sound harsh - but yes i fuckin love "swearing" haha. and i do, indeed, hope it expresses my earthy directness :)

Besides the multiple pictures with the tenants posing in them, I really like the space. It looks lived in. I don't think it 's overly clutter-ly or overly bland. I love the brick walls, kitchen and the bathroom, very nice, very beautiful.

The kitchen is great and I love the concept of the desk infront of the fireplace.

Your cat is huge!

I think the place is really lovely, but I just can't get behind the desk-in-front-of-the-fireplace idea. That fireplace is just too beautiful to be obscured. It's like putting a piece of furniture in front of a painting. No.

On an unrelated note, that desk in the bedroom is calling my name. Does anyone else hear that?

Great space. I think they are off to a good start making it home. Overall, I really enjoyed the tour. I realize they haven't been there long at all, which makes it even more of an accomplishment. If it were me, I would play around with the living room furniture to see if the living space could focus on the fire place and move the desk toward the entry. Perhaps they have and it didn't work. It would be fun to get in there and play around.

Thanks, everyone!

It's interesting to hear suggestions about the living room layout. We both work partly from home so office space is a must. One factor is the elfa desk/shelving which we need for storage. When we moved in we weren't looking to drill holes into the brick and didn't want the desk to block the view/pathway into the living room. But hearing all of the comments, we may consider alternative layouts...

As for the litterbox, it is in the area of the apartment where we spend the least amount of time. We are at our desks a lot.

And as for our art, I agree that more big pieces are the way to go. So far affordability has been a key factor in size.

zuluboy: it's a Madeline Weinrib cotton rug.

Great, great space! loving that you have a Mod Cat and a ModKat!!!

Cheers
rw
ModProducts (aka ModKat)

Love the chair; and I also love the row of mini-candles framed by the fireplace.

so it appears cameron does all the cooking, cleaning ...etc while Kate is in deep contemplation staring at walls, when not giving orders. poseurs. i don't see anything special about this. boring and predictable. give anyone a $500 ikea card and an apt with exposed bricks and voila!

Nice space and mix of furniture and decor styles. Lovely art collection too!

I don't mean to high-jack the comment thread with a lot of questions about the litter box, but as a prospective ModKat owner, how much does your cat weigh and was it pretty easy to get the cats to use the ModKat? I really want one!

Oh - and, nice apartment!

I love the way the windows are framed out. That's a great idea I'm going to steal. One day. When I'm allowed...

smackwaterjack: hostile much. there's hardly anything in there from ikea... when do we get to see your house tour?? i guess there's a 'smack' in your name for a reason...

wow, don't listen to any of the criticism, guys. Everything you've done here is way ahead of the suggested improvements. People trip all over themselves praising cluttered and poorly conceived spaces, but when there's something actually nice...? they get hyper critical. Such a totally weird phenomenon. Or maybe it's just jealousy.

This might be the wrong place to post this, given the turn this thread has already taken, but am I the only person who actually pulls the books off her shelves all the damned time?? I keep seeing these towers of books in these cute little apartments and homes, but I happen to have three really annoying book towers (at half the size) on my bedside table and I think it's a pain in the butt always having to move books to get to the one that is inevitably second from the bottom of the stack. In other words, it looks nice, but it's really impractical as hip trends go. For me, at least.

smackwaterjack- What???? Do you have some secret info about these people that I missed, because I have no idea what your comment is referring to. "When she's not giving orders".... for the life of me, I can't figure out what that's suppose to mean. What the hell are you talking about??

On a previous post I made a comment about someone needing a make over and it was pulled and here we have the F word flying free style and that's okay. Hummmm.

Lovely and looks so spacious and airy! Even though it's not my style I totally love what you did to your place, it makes me want to take over and relax and read a good book, knowing that people can’t find me. Really liked how you divided your long room into a living area and an office. I happen to like the desk infront of the fireplace. I have a corner fireplace in my condo that I’m not allowed to get rid of and it frustrates me because it took up valuable floor space and put a serious question mark on furniture arrangements. I think their solution is perfect. There has been plenty of AT article on people using their fireplace for something else i.e headboards.

P.S When I saw your cat in the first picture at first I thought it was a Siberian husky puppy.

meh. Really uinspiring except for the closet/changing area. The landlord did good reno job, but I just can't see that the residents have done anything special. They don't even have a lot of stuff so there's nothing special about the storage.

Very nice. I like how it looks "lived in" - i.e., books, original art, office area - but looks tidy and open. But what's the deal wit those curtain valances in the bedroom...?

I LIKE seeing the people in the pictures - it makes it easier for me to relate to the space for some reason. Anyway - love the cat (being a Maine Coon fan). Kitchen is great - brick wall - very nice. Art - don't dislike any of it. Would be super great to have a closet/dressing area of the size. I like everything about your place. All the naysayers are just looking for an Eames chair. You could probably just add one and they'd love it - lol.

pdxgirl: Our cats weight 12 and 15 lbs and took to the modkat without any trouble. Darwin, the male, who's in the photos, pops his head out when using it. We find it kind of hilarious but he seems perfectly happy!

brooklynindiana: The tall stack of books to the side of our couch is actually a bookcase so pulling out books is not a problem at all. We do, however, have a stack of art books on the other side of the couch and it's tedious to go through. I think stacking only works for books you don't frequently use.

Thanks for all of the kind, generous comments! It's by no means perfect but we couldn't be happier in our space... and isn't that the point?

Zenezie: People normally compare our cat to a lion or somehow think he's not a domestic cat. Siberian husky puppy is a new one, and I like it! ; )

Although this is is not my style I like some of the elements and art that are part of the decor.

I'll admit it's interesting to see if the mental image you form about the occupant (s) matches the reality, but 11 photos (out of 40)??? come on that's a bit much.

LOVE this apartment. Thank you for including pictures of the residents - I look to these tours to see how people have arranged their living spaces (emphasis on living) and love having pictures of the people to go with them. This looks like a well-thought out space that works for them!

Kate...can you share with us the brand/color of paint in the kitchen? It's a nice change from the common white-cabinets-with-blue-or-sometimes-gray-walls trend...maybe I won't paint my kitchen blue after all ;-)

Wow, I love this tour! The only thing about the whole place that I dislike is that little curtain thing above the window in the kitchen.

I really like the idea of this place, especially as someone who is also a young art collector (totally understand the problem of only being able to afford small pieces at the moment)...my only thoughts are that the space could use some color; and some slightly more upscale light fixtures. Seems like this would make the place feel brighter.

heela- Unfortunately, I don't know the paint color but it is a soft, buttery yellow. It's homey and warm albeit a bit traditional.

Love love love! This is what the first commenter wrote, but that's my first thought too. I wanna live somewhere like this someday. I also love your cat, it reminds me of my childhood long-haired cat.

This is a great apartment, those floors are amazing but, sorry to say, they don't know a thing about decor and decorating. I'm surprized Maxwell let this one out! If you need an 'office' space then find one, but NOT in front of the fireplace, working or not. I love red exposed brick but in this apt. I think I would paint it white and just do it differently in a whole nicer way. There isn't one thing I can say I like about the way this couple 'decorated' this apartment. The cat on the other hand IS the cutest!