apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Eek. When I see rooms with paint that bold, all I can think about is how many coats of primer and paint it's going to take to undo it.

i went to university with liz, such a talented designer and so inspiring! i LOVE hearing about designglut. so glad to see this posted on here.
also the poster on the wall is by another design grad...
http://www.swisslegacy.com/index.php/2009/05/03/polygon-typeface-andy-babb/

Those layered circular rugs are perfect!!!

Amazing how the geometry of the paint treatment makes the boxy room appear to have curved walls...

...but I still couldn't sleep there.

I have fond memories from the 1970s of a certain dorm lounge at SUNY Binghamton -- it was painted black, with that rainbow-heartbeat-prism thing from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon wrapping all the way around the room.

The pictured room makes me think of that. But not in a good way.

I think the first pciture would have looked cooler if she had used more serene colors. Maybe something like light teal, grey, and yellow instead of fushcia, dark blue and sky blue.

i'm with bepsf- i couldn't sleep there either...

Vertigo.

But interesting. (I might be able to live with the concept if the colors were more muted. Bold AND busy is overkill.)

this room makes me want to gag and book myself into an insane asylumn b/c surely that is where I would end up if I were forced to live there....yuckadoo as my 3 yo would say.

Exactly! Vertigo!

Woah my first thought was extreme vertigo...glad I wasn't the first one to think that!

But hey, I think these spaces are totally fun and I bet they don't actually feel so kaleidoscope-like in real life!

Also not a fan of the first pic but LOVE the bathmat rug and might just steal that idea for myself!

i think the feeling of vertigo is enhanced by the fisheye wideangle lens...

i live in this apartment building with liz & keegan, and have seen the space firsthand. it is certainly breathtaking, extrememly well done, and in the context of a humongous apartment with tons of sunshine and lovely art. plus our landlord loves the bedroom with the boldly painted walls.

also, the apartment is technically in bed-stuy, though we see bushwick from our front windows.

i would suggest checking out more of the pictures in the original story and to poke around their own website.

some super swesome ideas!! check out awsnips.blogspot.com for more goods!

I'm liz and kagan's landlord. I love what they have done with the apartment. They have trully made it into a real live/work space. As far as liz's bedroom goes ieven when they move out ( which I hope is never) I would hope new tenants would leave it as is. Her and Kagan put in hrs of wrk making it wht is. They are great people and TRUE artists ( even thought they can't change a freakin light bulb ).

Certainly not my colors, but I loved the way the walls were divided and painted.