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NY House Tour: Sara and Tom's Art Studio Living Room

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Name: Tom and Sara
Location: E. Williamsburg
Size: 900 sqft.

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House-Tour-Button06.jpg 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...

 
 
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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.

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Originally Posted on July 12th, 2006
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Not a very inspiring place to live/work.

posted by Noah on April 21st 2008 at 6:51am
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(Other than the very cool door) Yuck.
Looks like they could use some Curing.

posted by moni-ka in ky on April 21st 2008 at 6:53am
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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 :-)

posted by kittyj on April 21st 2008 at 7:01am
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I wish this had been photographed during the day - I bet it looks great with light pouring into the dining room.

posted by Button on April 21st 2008 at 7:07am
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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.

posted by MiklakMiklak on April 21st 2008 at 7:16am
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meh.

posted by davis on April 21st 2008 at 7:43am
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There's some lovely elements here. Unfortunately, they would have shown better had the occupants bothered to tidy up a bit.

posted by jdinnyc on April 21st 2008 at 7:46am
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Oh, this again.
Let this be the last time, please.

posted by gordon on April 21st 2008 at 7:53am
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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.

posted by designerny on April 21st 2008 at 7:53am
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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.

posted by bonjourmiette on April 21st 2008 at 8:23am
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that shelving should really cover itself. how immodest.

posted by teensleuth on April 21st 2008 at 8:40am
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Definetly not feeling that. Artwork is great but there'a a little more clutter than I care for.

posted by mar5195 on April 21st 2008 at 9:46am
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i really didn't like it. it looked quite dirty and messy and unorganized.

posted by terka27 on April 21st 2008 at 11:07am
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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.

posted by CityKitty on April 21st 2008 at 11:30am
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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!

posted by janey on April 21st 2008 at 1:34pm
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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.

posted by mskk on April 21st 2008 at 5:07pm
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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.

posted by sarajill on April 22nd 2008 at 2:57am
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