Name: Zeynep
Location: Upper West Side, NYC
Type: Studio, rented but renovated by us.
Why I use color:
I use colour to define temperature in my tiny studio apartment. I decided to have warm colours for cold winters and cool colours for hot and humid summers of NY, so I went with chocolate brown, cafe au lait, and blue-green on the walls, brownish red for seating.
The previous renter painted the walls with bright yellow, which was very uncomfortable. The floor's varnish was gone long time ago, so I painted it with brown and varnished it. I feel the temperature in my apartment is just right now because I find the mental and visual balance that I wanted from colours.
2 Good color tips:
1. Put some of the colour you want on the wall in during the day, so you can see how natural light effects the colour in your space, and how adjacent colours changes during the day and affect each others.
2. Dark colours in small spaces have dramatic effect, and putting dark colours in width of a room makes the place look longer and more interesting.
2 good color resources:
1. Food in general, ice cream and fruits in particular.
2. The city you live in has impact on colours and mood; the weather, environment, people.
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the color is nice, but i have just one question: Is the the WHOLE apartment?! i know you said tiny studio...but is this it? and if so where do you sleep? and keep your clothes? I know this isn't smallest/coolest, but i'm impressed by the tinyness of this place
d, you must not live in NY...
I *do* live in NYC and I'm asking the same questions as Linda. This is wonderfully tiny and tidy, but is there a door or murphy bed that we can't see?
I agree, Cara. Looks like it may be on the right in the second picture.
I think there could be more continuity with color. Maybe more splashes of red, but overall I like this place and would trade it for my studi any day. I am a sucker for brick, AND the UWS, which I miss very much.
Love this space and although the brick wall is enough color and texture for me I agree with Linda above who says a lil more splashes of red to add continuity - sums it up.
I love small-size apartments they are so big on style and require less maintenance. Great space!
Unrelatedly, it looks like you have ghosts in your tiny studi apartment.
I really like what you've done with the space - and love love love the chance to see other teeny apartments! Your color is obviously great, and works great for you - it just doesn't give me the "WHOA!" I'm looking for for the color contest. But will you enter it in smallest/coolest please??
Ghosts?
I think you've done a great job. Love the colors. You've got a wonderful imagination.
I'm sorry, but what is going on? People are voting 'in contention' for the use of light blue, brown, red, orange, green and seafoam green, salmon all in one room?
I've seen entries much better get ripped. This one I don't quite understand. Where is the color continuity? How are all these colors related? This is a small space .. if anything the continuity must be STRONGER, not weaker than in a larger apartment.
Listen, Missy, I think that we should really try to keep AT from becoming the kind of place where people feel free to snark at other people and rip apart their original ideas. Zeynep really went out on a limb in showing us an intimate glimpse of his private life, and I commend him for it! I, too, would like to know where exactly he sleeps and stores his clothes, but I say BRAVO! Thanks for sharing!
This is so much better than that trashy crap that opoopynasty so brazenly displayed.
Missy has a good point, and it was said in a constructive way not destructive, so calm yourself Joan. The apartment looks nice, and clean and the owner is comfortable there. You don't have to defend that.
I need to know where you got that wooden armchair from.
Yes, I agree. Missy's comments weren't snarky at all! There's such a thing as constructive criticism, and that was it!
This is a contest. I'm sure if Missy walked into this apartment as a dinner guest, she wouldn't say the same thing. THAT would be rude. But here, if you vote no, you explain why. Get it?
Joan! You're such a hypocrite!
Now THIS is snarky. I quote you:
"Hmmm...interesting choice. Turquoise. Tres trashy. People who live in glass crap shouldn't throw stones, opooponast."
You're not so innocent . . . .
this is beautiful and I would feel instantly relaxed if i lived in there. I acutally picked out the same colors for my place. I have that color green as a peice of furniture and used the salmon on one of my walls behind it.