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Sorry, but none of this works for me. The scale of the pieces are dwarfed by the walls they are hanging on, and I don't really find the art all that interesting (but that's just personal taste).

I also have to say that the whole house looks a little too much like the "model" by the developer.

i think the art is too small in relation to it's surroundings. pieces that size cannot survive on it's on. multiple pieces behind the couch and dining set would be better. the way they are up now the wall washes the art away. larger pieces or small pieces in a combined composition would be better.

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I've been giving kind of a lot of "awesomes" including this one, but I think for future contests related to art, per se, the idea of 2 pictures (not observed here) really doesn't give sufficient opportunity to get what's happening. P

Perhaps in future art competitions, where we're supposed to assess the artwork AND its context, a "zoom" AND a "pan" would be appropriate as shown here.

By the way, although I really do like this, I would kind of like to see that dark frame on both pieces, instead of the white one, so that piece could hold its own just a little better against those West Elm (?) shelves that I also love.

Art, schmart! I was just floored to learn that West Elm opened up a store in Jersey! Who knew?

I want to see a close-up of what's over the couch! I can't quite tell what it is, but I like the shape. I'm also intrigued by the little diptych next to the blinds... it's an odd little side-by-side that I'd love to see up close.

I have to agree that the artwork is dwarfed by it's surroundings. It's like you're afraid to couple pieces together and create a dialogue between them, which is a shame because they definately have a relationship to each other. Depending on your budget, I'd love to see more objet d'art in other places like the mantle, even the countertop and dining table. Cerealart.com offers great affordable stuff from Dalek and artists like him, including some sweet mass produced things from Yoshimoto Nara and Marcel Dzama.

I'm loving that sofa pillow, by the way.

And speaking of West Elm, Peter Pumpkin Eater, that there be a West Elm coffee table in Andrew's living room.

Yep, this room is truly an ode to West Elm. I spy with my little eye some modular wall shelves and the dining set that looks suspiciously familiar. The NJ store is in Princeton for your reference.

On another note:
Have any of you tried the Great Indoors? Is it too traditional or can it pass off as hip? Need a quick opinion

This is a great start and a very cohesive taste statement. I'd like to see you punch up the presence of the art by painting colored panels to set off the art from the rest of the room. The artwork has a cartoony energetic sense of humor that could use a bolder link to the room. I just moved a colored pencil drawing to a different colored wall and was amazed at how the yellow green colors of the drawing pop off the wall against a blue-tinged geen. Now they make those trial sized colors and you could have fun experimenting with different color effects. You might even be inspired by sperm guy to enliven his wall with some sperm shaped cartoony murals of your own.

I'm not an interior professional but it seems that the art is hung too high, especially those items in the first photograph. The artwork may benefit from having a better relationship to the top of sofa, not necessarily centered vertically on the available wall space. I would try moving them down a few inches. Nice artwork, though.

I ahve to agree with some of the previsous comments. The scale is too small, and the art, particularly above the couch, has been hung too high.

Love the pillows on your couch! Where'd you get them?

love the couch...where's that from? i doubt it's west elm.

Andrew, you're a tall guy, aren't you? I know because my tall boyfriend hangs pictures at exactly the same height you do. I complain they're too high and that art should be at eye level. Then he tells me that my eye level is far too close to the ground.

And I'm 5'7"!

In all seriousness, I like your space. It seems very restful and thoughtfully put together. I do agree that different groupings might display your art a bit better and that it would look more intimate if the pictures and shelves were a tad lower. There's an artist you might like, Brian Behnke ... click on my name for the link. My boyfriend bought Jack B Nimble a couple of years ago.

Thanks for the comments. The couch is from a store in Shrewsbury NJ called Motif. As far as the height of the pics, the camera angle really doesn't give a clear view of the way it looks in person. West Elm defitely provides a less expensive, nice furniture option. I find the furniture a step up from Ikea or Target. Just an opinion. Thanks for the suggustions/comments.

Definitely that was supposed to say....not defitely.

Andrew or anybody else: Can you tell me where the fireplace poker set is from?

This is the most stylish condo I've ever seen and the art work just adds to the originality!!!

Love the place. Could be the best new york design outside new york.

The fireplace set is from Chiasso.com.

Andrew
Just love it!!! Your taste is just great love the pictures and furniture.

Proportion issues aside, I love the pieces. I consider the Dalek pillow to be a work of art also!

Andrew, your place is great looking. They are right about the pictures being too high. Lower all that stuff about a foot. Just try it.

Andrew--

Aha! Taste IS alive and well in the Garden State, all ye disbelievers!!

Late to the thread on this, but I LOVE how you worked a high-pop set of pieces into a tranquil, swank, minimalist environment. No easy feat.

This, to me, is a great example of how art can benefit an environment, and how the environment can temper the art. I believe Marlon's Green Pad from way back when had work by Kaws, displayed to quite an (amazingly) different effect, but here it works just as well...

Throw in a highly textured but monochromatic rug, modernize the fireplace surround if you're not renting, and you will have an even more enviable framework for living with this art.

But even as is, very cool, and thanks for sharing.

PS: Shrewsbury ROCKS!!

Awesome work, I really can see your eye for art in the set up...

you always had it, I need you to be my interior decorator when I purchase or rent a home haha!

Seriously though, I voted AWESOME! as if you didn't know. heehee

Love you AND your work :)

Good Luck