Your living area is just STUNNING. It can be really tough to decorate with such a high ceiling, but I think your feel for scale is excellent.

Nice place but REALLY pricy for the kind of commute and neightborhood that is involved with LIC. Like the design.

Sounds like an awesome job, I'm jealous.

*Although* being a model, this isn't really a house tour, is it? As in, no one lives there and it was designed for promotional reasons.

Sorry, I just saw that the top of the post it said "Showhouse Tour."

Wow; lots of inspiration here. :) And the "showhouse tour" clarification is a nice idea - even if it just makes me feel slightly less inadequate as a designer.

I want to see what's above the kitchen cabinets -- is that wallpaper? A mural? Just some odd happenstance in the concrete???

Also, backwards stacked books really annoy me (as a librarian) but as WALLPAPER, they are pretty cool!

Gaaahhh. This place makes me want to abandon my Midwestern craftsman bungalow for an industrial-chic loft in Queens. Great use of neutrals and textures. And that fabulous trunk desk--oh my!

Then I saw how much of the furniture was from Restoration Hardware and had to revoke my own Hipster Card. I admit it: I like their style.

Beautiful place-- and am actually relieved to see that it's staged. I was worried about that coral sculpture falling into the bathtub and shattering (or becoming slowly crudded up with bathroom grime).

"Dream Source/Resources: I still feel like no single source can or should be used for a home." - Scott

When I just saw the first pics on this post, before going into the tour, I thought this place screamed RESTORATION HARDWARE! According to the resources, In fact, the majority of the furnishings are from Restoration Hardware... just sayin'...

I loved his house tours before and I love this showroom unit he put together. I think he did an excellent job and has amazing taste.

A job well done.

Greetings from Astoria.

Wow, someone really likes Restoration Hardware.

Sepia. Very soothing.

That desk is so cool.

I loved this. Perfectly decorated. It feels sterile. It's missing the human factor. A showhome can still have some organic touches. Maybe some non-direct people photos hanging on the walls, in frames... a throw on the bed possibly that looks like someone may have used it?

It looks like a restoration hardware catalog.

I love the desk/cabinet combo. It would be fun to work in that space, although I would be tempted to be opening and closing it all the time. :) Sure it's a lot of restoration hardware - but it is a staged show home. I think it was well done and quite interesting for a neutral space that has to have a broad appeal.

The wallpaper above the kitchen is fabulous, but why is it not hung so the pattern meets at the seams? I doubt it was designed not to continue.

I really, really, really dislike the coffee tables. In fact, they annoy me. I second the comment above re: the backwards books. Just no.

Overall, model units don't work for me. There's no story behind the design.

Looks good. I have a question. What's up with these open kitchen things. I live in Argentina and for some reason people are freaks about food smells. They want the smell only in the kitchen. If I am cooking my roommates open the windows to the kitchen in summer and close off their bedroom doors. Do you find some people are wacky about food smells being only in the kitchen. I guess you can't contain them in an open kitchen.

Feels like I just flipped through a Restoration Hardware catalog. Seriously, are any of the main furniture pieces NOT Restoration Hardware?

Where is the Pepsi Cola print from?

Hmmm looks like last season's (or the one before) Restoration Hardware catalog.

@ House Voyeur - I live in Australia and I hate the open-plan kitchen design. Our current and previous two homes have this and I am determined not to have it again. It's for some people, not others. However, it seems to be a 'Trend' right now. I love seperate eat-in kitchens any day.

I like this showcase tour, it's a pity that secretary trunk can't be shipped to us.

I love the subtle geometric wall treatment in the first bathroom. In fact all of the wallpapers are wonderful.

That rolling desk is just about the damn coolest thing I have seen in a long, long time. I am really private. I'm a writer and when people look at my workspace, it makes me feel like they are seeing me naked. I can afford to have a separate writing room in my house now, but when I move to NY (the plan is on the horizon) I won't be able to afford that much space. Let's hope they are still making this damn cool office then.

I also adore the twin bed set up. It is such a trip back in time. I now live in a gut rehabbed row house that has just as many ugly and distracting vents and horrible hardware as this place does. (I'm thinking the vents behind the twin beds, and those closet doors.) On one hand I am glad to see someone not bothered by the anachronism. On the other hand, I wish there were a better solution. Perhaps painting the metal parts the same color as the wall?

Yes where is the Pepsi Cola print / photograph / artwork from please?

can we retire the "curating" verb for people who are not professional museum curators already? Displaying stuff and sourcing it has nothing to do with that profession. It's starting to be tired.

Now I remember Scott's Urban 1-bedroom because of the leather hippo and the private garden with views of NY... still a good house tour too.

When I first moved to NYC in 1980, it was to LIC (three blocks in from the Pepsi sign!) and none of these high rises existed then. It was a wasteland. I lived in a tenement above a deli running a front for Columbian drug dealers, saw a guy murdered in there (hatchet to the chest) while I was buying cat food, Talking Heads would open their rehearsals down the street and three doors down PS.1 had Bowie, Blondie, and all ilk of glitterati parading past our fire escape (our cue to wander insouciantly into the party.) Combined with the amazing views of Manhattan it was, in a word, wonderful, despite the lack of heat in the apartment or any neighborhood services whatsoever. Thirty years on, this is a whole different kind of wonderful that I should check out.

Does anyone know where the back-to-front Pepsi Cola print is from (on the living room wall), pleeeease?

I like the bottom-up blinds, nice and simple treatment. Those big light fixtures are perfect for the high ceilings. Nice restrained colour palette.

I'm with BERKLEY.LOVES.GREY, Immediately screamed Restoration Hardware on the first photo...and then all subsequent photos. If the designer says, "I still feel like no single source can or should be used for a home." ...why did he move the Restoration Hardware showroom into the condo? Great advertisement for RH though. Maybe he's getting a commission from them as well.

@Janpel, go to the actual 'The View' condo development website at the link above. You'll see your Pepsi Cola image there.

Why no curtain rod/curtain in the shower? o.O That breaks the fantasy of it being someone's actual home vs. an obvious display home....

I like that desk too, and the bar console (slightly similar feel). Also the twin beds. It's well-executed.

any idea where i can get similar brackets in picture 2

Thanks @DUANEHILL - what I should have written is where can I purchase one of those Pepsi Cola prints / posters / images????

The living room, kitchen, dining room combo is sick!

I don't know how much it's design if most of the furnishings come from one place. In this case Restoration Hardware. The one thing that did not work for me were the coffee tables. They look like they are about to roll away.

I really felt like the livingroom looked personal and lived in, maybe not so much the bedrooms but the design and space are beautiful. I agree with the above comments though that the column coffee tables have got to go. Columns unless done really well are cheesy! One other change I would make would be the bar cart, it would have been cool to have gotten a mid-century glass and brass piece. The office with desk and wallpaper is awesome.

Greetings from Sunnyside!
I appreciate this model apartment but much prefer your LIC apt.

Seriously, TOO much Restoration Hardware!! ;(

Hey -if you like a source, you like a source. My apt. looks like C&B threw up in here, but we like it. It's all from different seasons, so it doesn't look matchy-matchy.

That trunk desk looks like a good DIY project. Back when I was moving a lot I designed a set of bookshelves that opened like that. When it was time to move you just closed and locked it, rolled it out on the wheels. I was going to make a whole set of furniture like that but ended up not moving around so much so it wasn't needed.

Looks like a restoration hardware catalog.

a lot of it was a bit heavy handed for my taste, but the overall color palette and texture is nice.

kitchen cabinets source please?

I like this space, but seriously, I have to agree with all the restoration hardware comments.

Any joker can walk into a restoration hardware, or similar store, and throw money at their design, but if you're going to use terms like "creative flair" and "curating and sourcing skills" then I expect a little more creativity & sourcing from the designer.

Regardless, it's a beautiful space & I'm glad to have seen it.

I just wonder about the huge fridge. Perhaps it is the angle of the photos but it seems to be front and centre of the lounge area and I am not too sure that is what I would want to rest my eyes on. And agree about the coffee tables - the way the base protrudes beyond the top means a klutz like me would be forever banging her shins.

this is awesome that restoration hardware is doing showcases now and it's great that apartment therapy isn't bother with those boring actually lived in homes and family houses and instead showing us what's really important, showrooms and spaces designed to get the big bucks.

Just my taste. I didn't know you can use beige and gray as a color scheme. I am all in favor of kitchen cabinets with a high gloss front. So easy to keep clean with wipes. Over all, the textures are just amazing, as is the scale. I personally like to use a touch of Greek antiquity in each room when possible, to remind us of our cultural roots, and to provide a slight suggestion of the Jane Austin housing era. Of course, I am not advocating stealing bits of the Parthenon.

Love the space and windows, not so much the ReHa color pallette (or lack thereof). Is it just me, or does anyone else find that the stacked-book wallpaper makes one dizzy? I have this uncomfortable feeling that the stacks will collapse any moment onto my head...

I like the color palette but most of the furnishings don't seem especially well thought out or harmonious. I am not anti-ReHa, but do think it's nice to mix up sources and design elements otherwise a place looks sterile and stale to me.

@ Janet Brandt - Agree.

The problem with sourcing from one primary catalog with a model is that you make all your purchases from one catalog season and so the space looks like that catalog. In real life we all purchase during different seasons and years based on need, and so even if we have a preferred source, we get a varied look as manufacturers change out colors and styles each season.

I think also because Restoration has been extremely loyal to the neutral pallette, adding more color would have helped break up the catalog feel.

However, the space is shown off well for potential renters/buyers, the scale is quite good, so as a model it is successful.

I would love to hear the target demographic for the building on these showhouse/model posts so we understand the age, typical profession & family status of the person this unit was designed for.

@ Janpel THE PEPSI COLA PRINT is from Jesse Winter. www.jessewinter.com

Agreed, defintely happy to hear that was a staged unit. The first thing I thought was "where are you supposed to cook with all that beautiful furniture?" The space was so incredibly perfect and immaculate I wouldn't even want to cook in that kitchen for fear of causing a mess in there.