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Welcome to Sarah!
Hello Apartment therapy,
I'm attaching 4 photos of our living room out here in Mount Vernon, NY. When my boyfriend Jeff and I moved in together and into an attic apartment with walls that slope up into the ceiling we knew we had to be a little creative in terms of how to integrate our wall-decorating collections and how to decorate when the walls get cut off at five feet tall...
In "Art over Stereo" you can see a bigger view of one of only two tall walls in the apartment (the other is taken up by bookshelves). Incidentally, the white chair in the corner is my own spray-painting and big-fuzz-upholstering effort.
"Art closer-up" lets you see a littel better what we've got: two concert posters hanging with the excellent poster hangers from posterhanger.com, two framed greeting cards from ferdinand, a Pittsburgh cityscape from family friend Mary Mazziotti's first gallery show sometime in the '90s, and a lithograph by Jeff's brother Brendon Boyle we just had framed and matted as a Christmas gift to ourselves.
"Art over the couch" (which I think makes the room look a lot more white/bland that it actually is--alas) shows "J is for Jaguar" by Matthew Porter, from Art Star in Philadelphia; screenprint by Jay Ryan for the song "Tables and Chairs"--the closest thing to "our song" that Jeff and I have--on "Andrew Bird's Mysterious Production of Eggs" album; "Lil' Bandits" by Etsy all-star ashleyg; and beyond that both our college degrees.
"Art over the corner table" shows the awesome corner table and tension rod lamp that I inherited from my grandparents, another great concert poster of Jeff's and another piece of art by Jeff's brother Brendon--also our complete Shakespeare, dictionary, descriptionary and thesaurus.
Thanks for your time,
Sarah
I LOVE that corner table....
way to go! my ex lived in a place like this & i felt for him. it was a serious challenge finding anything to fit in there, shelves, beds, much less art. you've done well.
Some art actually looks good on the slopes. Decals continuing down the slope and onto the wall would look effective also.
Ach! I'm so thrilled to be on apartment therapy! Thanks so much, Maxwell.
thanks for the nice comments, too.
Di Overton: we've been heavily considering wall decals for the bedroom. Especially because it seems like the walls are covered by old wallpaper and then 10-odd layers of old paint--whic is to say they're kind of cracking. And I just saw the Blik decals in person at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial, which gave me great hope for how they will stick to our sad walls. We'll just have to see when the budget loosens up a little.
Your space is divine. Loads of personality...
Eclecic, colourful, and the art placement is perfect (slopes can be so hard to work around...)
(:
I enjoy your radiator cover.
Is that chicken wire?
Good idea...
Sarah, cute place! I wonder if Wallwords (or some other static vinyl lettering) would look great on the sloped walls? You could put a quote that you love right up there with noooo problem!
~Monica
Hey, I'm with Alexis -- nice radiator cover! Did you make it yourself?
I did a post the other day on this company http://www.wonderfulgraffiti.com/index_f.html they do the most amazing range of lettering for your walls. You can pick your own words and embellishments. Worth a look.
Hello Alexis and Meg,
The radiator cover came with the house. I think something about the light made it look a lot cooler than the standard-issue radiator cover that it is. I just tried to take a clearer picture of it, but turns out photographing that bad-boy accurately is impossible.
And thanks for more wall decal resources! yay for decorating!
I have a question I live in a cape and the bedrooms upstairs have a sloped ceiling. I want to add some color to my room it is all off white now. Can I put a taupe or a chocolate brown on all it or will the slopes look funny at the top being a color
Hi Sarah!! speaking of wall decals, this website has some very affordable ones that are so much more unique than blik, check it out
http://www.etsy.com/your_shop.php
they are called ShaNickers, and I have also seen them on www.shenanigansawesomestuff.com
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Sarah I was surfing and came upon this site and the pics of your apartment...and your Mazziotti. Would you care to sell it? If so, I'm a very interested buyer. nashvillemykl@yahoo.com
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