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Name: Tom and Sara
Location: E. Williamsburg
Size: 900 sqft.
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Sara and Tom are both great artists who have figured out, successfully, how to live together and make art in the same place. Their home provides a great canvas for their work plus a wonderful indoor/outdoor space in which to live...
The history of the space is industrial workspace. In fact, their living room, adjacent to their bedroom was once the spot for a giant well. Their great door lead to that well.
Sara's work has a resemblence to wallpaper but is painted on canvas, while Tom's work looks like classic Greek architecture but is paper sculpture suspended by push pins.
While they rent their apartment, they did all the repainting, kitchen, and bathroom work to make it into a comfortable livable space. Shelving is their friend and essential in a large space with no sign of a closet.

Originally Posted on July 12th, 2006
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Not a very inspiring place to live/work.
view Noah's profile
(Other than the very cool door) Yuck.
Looks like they could use some Curing.
view moni-ka in ky's profile
yikes, I can't imagine putting my home up on display only to have people make such disparaging comments...
You guys must have put a ton of work into this space! I really like the art installations, very cool :-)
view kittyj's profile
I wish this had been photographed during the day - I bet it looks great with light pouring into the dining room.
view Button's profile
Yeah, I don't know if this was shot with a crappy camera or just in poor lighting, but it looks so dismal. I love some of those chairs though.
view MiklakMiklak's profile
meh.
view 7980723's profile
There's some lovely elements here. Unfortunately, they would have shown better had the occupants bothered to tidy up a bit.
view jdinnyc's profile
Oh, this again.
Let this be the last time, please.
view gordon's profile
ummmm, I don't want to be mean but this space is a bit uninspired. I've seen friends come up with some pretty creative living solutions with very very little money. I think the space itself is lovely and has great potential.
view designerny's profile
when I saw all those shelves I was really expecting this to be a slideshow featuring some cool way that people turned the everything needing to be stored in giant shevling units into a cool showcase of the beauty of everyday objects. I guess I was expecting too much just because the owners were artists and it was posted on AT, as this place looks like a funky urban salvation army, everything that isn't actual art looks like it's ready for the buyers to come in a get some great deals on plates.
I really like Tom's installation though it's quite lovely, and that door is wicked.
view bonjourmiette's profile
that shelving should really cover itself. how immodest.
view teensleuth's profile
Definetly not feeling that. Artwork is great but there'a a little more clutter than I care for.
view mar5195's profile
i really didn't like it. it looked quite dirty and messy and unorganized.
view terka27's profile
The door looks so cool and I thought that the space was going to be amazing. While I applaud the creativity with the artwork it seems too institutional like there should be some guy wrapped up in a straight jacket sitting in the corner. Well, at least he could be sitting on a nice chair.
view CityKitty's profile
Too bad there are so many rude snobs on this site. I think the apartment is funky in a good way! The art and door are gorgeous!
view janey's profile
They seem like very sweet people and Im happy to see a space that look ungaurded and lived in versus cleaned to death like some of these tours but I find the open shelving simply overwhelming and the furnishings not very nice or creative.
view mskk's profile
I'm glad that you finally posted something that looks like a place people actually live (the netflix on the coffee table, sweaters not folded by gap employees). I think you're showing us creative things that people have done with the space: regular people, whose lives are devoted to something besides making their place look Apartment Therapy Perfect.
view sarajill's profile
oh my goooddd i would love to live in a place like that it looks amazing! how much is rent in a place like that?
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