Dramatic color. Love the entry and the bed nook, love the bed for that matter.

Of course, since this is a 'showcase' and not somebody's actual things, it's a bit depersonalized. But I could see myself living there, if I was that 20 something urban professional.

I have no idea how you can look at this space and say it's "depersonalized."

I love the leather chair. The daybed bed spread looks messy.

@Patrick(The Other One), any space without photos of humans is depersonalized. This doesn't bother me because I know this is a showroom.

Wonderful choices! The design did a bang up job. I just wish we had been shown more of the space. I would rather see the kitchen, bath and sleeping alcove, than a potted plant or collection of vases.

@Duane Hill: I really disagree about family photos making a space personal. It's no guarantee. The choices here speak far more to individuality, personality and personalization than any wedding photo ever might.

@Trixie: You see all the sleeping alcove there is (bed/sofa is it). And shooting available light, the kitchen shots were not great. Plus, since these were designer assignments, I focused on what the designer brought in, not what the builder supplied. You can get a hint of the kitchens and baths by reviewing the other related Tours.

@Duane - exactly what I meant, no personal pictures or books. I didn't mean 'bland'. As a 'showhouse' or 'model' apartment, it's fantastic. I would have liked to see the kitchen and bath, too,

I know you didn't mean bland. But I still disagree about "depersonaliized." Not everyone, myself included, displays photos or walls of books... perhaps especially in a space this small.

I don't think this is depersonalized at all. We don't display family photos everywhere, or in very many places. It doesn't mean we don't love our families.

This is really nice. It shows what can be done with a small footprint. I'm kind of a bright, white and sunny guy, but I'm reconsidering darker walls. This is cozy but cool.

Kind of a quibble, but I'm not crazy about the "house tour" format for models, competitions, show homes and so forth. Maybe they should all be bundled together in some way or as a different kind of feature. When I see "house tour" I want to see how someone lives in a place.

Yet, if it were a professionally decorated space, where someone DID live exactly like this, there'd be even more complaint about it not seeming "lived in." #nowinningsometimesherelately

I can see the attraction. I think it's designed nicely but not a place I could personally live in. Too dark and those lined walls would drive me nuts after a while. I do like the lamps.

@Spectrogram, it sounds like you have an issue with people making their homes personal with stuff you don't like.

Thanks for helping me make my point.

How is it any different than them doing it *without* things *you* do?

Patrick, I know I've said this before but I can pick out your house tours half a sentence in. Your writing is lovely.

I really like this space; it exudes personality in a way that the other entries in this competition didn't quite manage. It looks like a place that the inhabitant carefully furnished over time, according to his/her tastes. And that rosewood chest of drawers is so beautiful -- well worth a splurge! I also really like the use of the darker color to define the daybed nook.

Thank you, Erica! Made my day!

@Patrick (the other one), don't get me wrong, this is a great interior decorating job.

My point is that the "personal" is subjective by nature and a showroom or hotel room needs to appeal to the objective user (impersonal). Thus, pictures of grandma and snow globes of Fargo, ND are seldomly seen in hotel room or showrooms (unless out of irony).

I'd understand that more if this space were devoid of the purely decorative, or devoid of art.. But it's not. But I get where you're coming from.

Absolutely fantastic. This is a perfect example of quality over quantity and great editing skills. I feel inspired to go home to my own studio and purge, purge, purge.

Of all the models shown in this building so far, I like this one the best. I really like the couch/daybed; it doesn't look *too* daybed-ish, but it still looks like it would be comfortable to sleep on. (If you were a reasonably small person, I guess. Which I am.)

Also, all the art is FANTASTIC. This designer has a serious eye for picking out "flea market" art, I must say.

I have one quibble: the hide rug. Hear me out! To be fair, I would never own a genuine hide/leather/etc. rug, for personal reasons. However, there have been many house tours on AT where I've thought a hide rug *looked* pretty cool in the setting. Here, though, I would have loved to see a slightly warmer, plusher rug to warm things up and bring an additional small splash of color.

What I love about hides, especially in open plans, is their irregular shape that anchors but leaves you with much more placement flexibility than something geometric in shape.

Point taken. I still would have liked to see something a little plusher and warmer. But that's just me!

I love this tour! It feels clean, yet warm at the same time. Great job.

fabulous! this is what a swanky little metroloft should be! entry way & ceiling taping (?) absolutely fantastic.

the little army man as a blind pull??? Best Detail Ever. My heart is won.

also, I'm glad Matthew Broderick has found himself a back-up plan in case the acting thing doesn't work out.

Wow, this place has huge impact for such a small space...very impressive! Especially love all the drama on the walls!

I think that all the items in this apartment were chosen very well. I really like the circular side table and marble looking? lamp in the corner. My favorite element though is the elegant line painting on the walls in the foyer. I would frame that abstract painting on that wall in a super shiny gold metal to make it pop.

How can that be 475 sq? The living area is stated as 154 sq. That place is tiny!

I have that same “dining” table. Mine is accompanied with 2 ghost chairs.
You've created such a smart space.

@Spectrogram, well said.

I was also shocked that anybody would find that this place is lacking personality. But then again, I'm one of these horrible people who do not display family photographs in my place.

Nice place.

Love this apartment! Great vintage finds, you really manage to use vintage pieces in a modern way. Not to add to this whole "personalization" nonsense (relax guys) but I don't see that initial comment as an insult at all. I tend to agree, and still think the place is amazing. I love AT because how how realistically imperfect most of the tours are. So I suppose I agree with the possible mis-categorization into "house tours" that was mentioned. Maybe give it a different category and people will view with a different perspective.

Also, relax you guys. And be nice. Geez.

I really the furniture and lamps selected (it'd be rather creepy to have Getty model photos or the decorator's family on the walls of a show apartment, wouldn't it?), but like Detex, I'm puzzled by the square footage. Were the dimensions listed correctly?

And I agree, these shouldn't be listed as House Tours, but perhaps Model Homes? Home Potential? Designer Duds? If I Had a Hammer?

I like this. All except for the graphic wall. I could never live with that day after day in such a small space. It would make me feel as though I had OD'd on morphine. Great chairs and lamps, though!

I too wish I saw the bathroom and the kitchen, versus pictures of the wall/ceiling, and some plants. I understand where you're coming from doing as it but my idea of a house tour is not about what photographs well, but how the space flows. I didn't really get that here, except for the layout. Outside of all that the stuff was nice, I do agree with lyonstill in that it is dark, but nice.

@detex, i agree, 475 sq ft seems like an overestimate... my place is 500 and seems twice the size of this. regardless, a sophisticated and subtle little nook. love that dresser.

Dear God I love this so much it hurts. The only thing I would have done differently is use natural woven shades instead of blinds. As a renter, seeing spaces like this make me long for the day that we can afford to buy (which here in London, feels more and more like just a dream), just to have creative freedom.

Really great inspiration here, and wonderful writing as well :)

Hard to find anything wrong 'cept for the cowhide rug. A lapse of design discipline I guess. Clean, comfortable, Visually enjoyable; nothing depersonalized here!

J'adore! I will definitely steal the foyer wall treatment. Maybe for my tiny hall? Genius! You may have had a man in mind as your "client" but I can see myself in this kind of space. Bookmarked for the future.

hmm...a tad too dark for me, and the entrance overwhelmed.
but perhaps that's sedate me, serene white- blue in tiny sq ft.
liked the art, but.

Love. And if I hadn't read the commentary, I wouldn't have know that this was a model.

If I were a guy, this is exactly what I'd want my apartment to look like.

Nice space! Love the console and the artwork and, yes, the cowhide rug.

I don't think it depersonalizes things not to have photos and snowglobes. In a huge house, maybe. But not in a space under 500 feet.

And yes, he does look like Matthew Broderick!

Outstanding! Amazing! Awesome! All the words I never use! And Bravo, and Kudos! I love almost everything, very stylish, masculine without being overbearingly so. Mixed emotions about the rug.
I would liked to have seen kitchen and bathroom also,less vignettes.

Loved everything about this space!

great space for a nudist... the rest of us would have to dress in our Manhattan Storage units...

Adore everything in the space, and always enjoy this contributor's writing. Was so impressed I had to click over to the designer's portfolio. I now know who is designing my house when I win the lottery. That Nashville home, OMG!!!

The bathroom had a toilet, sink and shower in it. The kitchen had a sink, stove and refrigerator.

Ooooh, I like this space! I love the "lines" wall. Very cool and striking! I also like the wall color a lot. I'm a "I see a red door and I want to paint it black" kinda girl so I'm surprised that this dark brown reallly hits my gothic bone. Add a few glass skulls and poetry books and Morticia, I'm home!

Great look for a ridiculous budget!

Absolutely in agreement with Bouldero, with an extra little insight from personal experience. I've been an on and off amateur antique and vintage picker since my teens (It can be stated in decades, enough said ...) and I was tickled to count at least eight things in this tour that are duplicates of items that I have had and used and then sold or gifted, sometimes more than one time... Any how, the point that I'm leading up to is that none of the things that I recognized first hand are particularlyhard to find or high end, yet we 've all seen how they have been used to contribute to the function and swank of this apartment. I always like to see a demonstration of "accessible" design which aside from this sort of gathering is demonstrated by how the designer went with the structural breaks and oddities instead of trying to fight them. I learned from this tour and saw some highly affordable and adaptable strategies, just the kind of thing I most enjoy finding . Thanks for posting this one and to Kevin for showing us that well worth emulating.

OH, I suppose that it might be nice to say what they were.... most of the lamps, the two chairs flanking the lucite table, clock on the rosewood piece, silver tone or chrome bowl on teak side table. I think that's most of them.

OH again..in comment before last, it should have read.."NOT particularly hard to find" As it read there with the "not" left out it was absolutely opposite of the point I was trying to make.

Oh, Lord Have Mercy as my mother used to say, it made sense the first time after all...I won't make this any more confusing, I promise!

Love this place. Doesn't feel cold to me at all. Looks lived in without a bunch of little junk all over the place and not everyone needs to display all their family members throughout the home. The colors are warm and cozy to me. The graphics on the wall not my favorite but still nice (maybe just too much for me). Only think I would have added for myself are fresh flowers.

Great job!!

Kevin is WAY cuter than Matthew Broderick. Hands on. I mean hands DOWN.

outstanding!

Clever use of 475 square feet. Loving the wildness of the wall painting/design. Position of the furniture gives me some ideas for my small place.