Name: Vanessa Deleon
Location: Edgewater, New Jersey
Size: 800 square feet
Years lived in: 2 years
You may recognize Vanessa as the interior designer on the Food Network's Restaurant Impossible. She calls her unique style, "glamilistic," which she describes as combining streamlined minimalism with glamourous details. Vanessa's Cuban roots along with Art Deco designs also inspire her. Besides working on her own apartment, she also designed the lobby of the building.

Even though the apartment is a studio with an open floor plan, Vanessa created separate living areas and used drapery to divide the bedroom and living room. The open plan makes the already generous-for-a-studio 800 square feet very expansive. I love the color choices and strong patterns and textures— all derived from a peacock feather. The space is fun and youthful and I could definitely move right in!
Apartment Therapy Survey:
My Style: Streamlined minimalism with classic and glamorous details
Inspiration: A peacock feather
Favorite Element: Wallpaper
Biggest Challenge: The biggest challenge was trying to create different areas in my alcove studio, while still keeping the sense of openness.
What Friends Say: They say "Vanessa, this apartment is so you."
Biggest Embarrassment: I would have to say the mismatched dog toys around the apartment were not part of the decorating aesthetic
Proudest DIY: The candle sconce that I turned into a jewelry holder.
Biggest Indulgence: I would have to say the peacock feathers.
Best Advice: "Less is more"
Dream Source: Jonathan Adler

Resources of Note:
FURNITURE
ACCESSORIES
APPLIANCES
HARDWARE
FLOORING
TILES & STONE
LIGHTING
WINDOW TREATMENTS
PAINT
ARTWORK

Thanks Vanessa!
Images: Dan Muro, Fast Forward Unlimited
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I have been looking for that exact shade of blue for my bedroom - can you tell me the paint color?
Stunning... nice work!
Truly glamouris and definitely dramatic!! If I lived in a place like this, I may never leave the house!
Oh my, when I read the "glamalistic" term I thought I recognized it. She was on HGTV Design Star a few seasons back.
I love the tufted chair but have to say the curtain behind it looks like a sheet for some reason. The small all-over print is not the same level of "Wow" that the rest of the apartment has, I think a solid or a more graphic print would have been more cohesive. The curtin is nice, but just not working with the rest of the place.
Becca in Chicago,
Check out Aegean Blue from Benjamin Moore. I cannot guarantee it is what Vanessa used but I had it in my bedroom a few years ago and on my monitor it looks exactly like AB.
im with Engineer, the scale of that print is TINY! all the bold colors and textures in her apartment could support a huge, bold pattern. love that navy pintuck duvet and the building lobby is stunning!
Great space! I wish I were this fabulous
Love this! I just put up an accent wall in my bedroom of Wolf Gordon Origami wallpaper which looks a lot like the tapestry that divides the room. I was wondering who would be fabulous enough to rock those Louboutins, well done!
Great use of space!!! Love the colors and theme =))) Everything goes well together, and I have to say the window treatments are perfect pattern that match well with the wallpaper and rest of the apartment theme...ohhhh and are the buttons on the accent chair the same pattern as the curtains??? If so, wowwwwwwww on detail!!!!
peacock stuffs with black background ~~~so charming~~~
So very grand for such a small palce. Love it! Naturally, the lobby is also fabulous.
Beautiful space with a high wow factor. But echoing what others have said, this would be thoroughly sexy without the granny underpants that is the curtains with the vine prints.
Love her space. My favorite pieces are the white end tables alongside her couch, I would these as night stands.
The lobby is fantastic.
i say it's Glamtastic! Wow! What a magical place to call home! I am very impressed with this very original and artfully sophisicated home.
where is all her stuff??
where did she get her bedside tables? love them! pls let me know
So unique! I've seen people use peacock feathers as their inspiration before but this is the most successful interpretation yet.
To me, things get dated if they don't feel personal, if they feel like "the style in year x," rather than "MY style." This is definitely her style and her world. I love it. Incidentally, I find the vine-printed curtains brilliant. The decor might have supported something more graphic, but the effect would have gone over the top (in a bad way). Bravo!
I love it, but I can just picture you closets stuffed with all her junk!
So glam and girly, I love it! If I got to design my place with no consideration for anybody else's tastes, I imagine at least the bedroom looking a lot like this.
very pretty, but it doesnt feel very "homey" wheres all of her stuff? feels like a fancy hotel suite.
Is there only a living room and bedroom in the apartment? The resources point to more space than the pictures are showing.
Love the blue color. Am thinking about a similar one for a powder room.
Would have loved kitchen and bath shots!
I love, love, love that blue bedding. Does anyone have any clues on the source?
Could benefit from some really huge area rugs to break up the floors. Love the colors, textures and the peacock frames are to DIE for. There is a warmth missing. Artwork and area rugs would solve that issue.
The chandelier is beautiful. This home looks sophisticated, chic and classically romantic. I could not afford the kind of chandelier I wanted when I renovated my dining room last December, so I went with a pendant light instead. They look similar. I got mine from lookintheattic and am happy with the look it gives my dining area. I am saving up to add more decorations around the house, too -- this post is inspiring and is a good tide-me-over
oh good god.... GORGEOUS!!! Love all of the glammy details!
It looks like a store...not an apartment. Too busy busy busy. Not feeling it but whatever makes you happy.
@ skybluesky It looks like the duvet is the organic pintuck from West Elm. I'm not sure they still offer that dark navy color, but the styles comes in various colours.
Where did you get the hardware (ceiling) for the curtains?
It's not my style, but it's so different than anything I've ever seen that I'm glad to see it on here
hello sister! after deciding that i MUST have peacock feather shades on my acrylic lamps, they inspired the rest of my place, too... the feather wreath, throw pillows, mirror table and square vase w/ feathers are all gracing my co-op right now... as for the lamp shades? they're the only DIY i own....
Thank you very much, ofheart&city !
Might be Ok...but not with those floors! That's all I see.
i love the two tone living room chair. and the creative headboard for the bed. also, a good use of a small space. the style does remind me though of a sanitized hotel suite.
I am a fan of whites, but seeing her apt. made me rethink my color choice. Wonderfully stylish.
Kudos to Vanessa for being brave, expressing her creativity, and creating a space that is personal, pulled-together, and original. It doesn't look like a MCM showroom, a catalog, or even a condo! Well done.
Let's hope other folks are willing to ignore the snark, condescension, and rudeness so that we can all benefit from seeing more fantastic, creative, and even wacky, ideas. It *is* possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
Where is that dining-room chandelier from? Anybody know? I looked through the websites of both listed lighting sources, but I didn't find it.
I really like the peacock blue theme and well as the tiled entry way? Excellent creativity!
Would have loved to have a floorplan of the apartment so I could have a better understanding of the layout.
I don't like this space. I don't like the color scheme or the peacock feathers or the bedroom curtain divide -- especially, I don't like the way the curtain divide and the window drapes intersect. That having been said, it's a matter of preference and I agree most strongly with Dollface: "It *is* possible to disagree without being disagreeable."
Isn't it? Let's try, please.
Love it. I'm curious how she achieved the effect of the fireplace spilling onto the wooden floor.
I really don't want to be a jerk, but am I the only one that thinks the photos are sub-AT quality? Maybe its just my monitor....
Beautiful spaces. I had a little bit of a hard time telling which was her space and which was the lobby. Love her use of fabrics.
She drove me crazy on Design Star though when she said glamilistic like a zillion times.
I took a second look, I get it now. Both spaces are really gorgeous. I wish there was a large piece of art, but perhaps the fabric is the art.
@adawa - her style is minimal
@lilah - I too wish the photos were better quality, since she's an aspiring designer she should have her place professionally shot
I'd like to see a couple of the cheap pieces get replaced with something more upscale since her style is so sophisticated. For example IMHO Ikea has no place in this home , (white glass Ikea vase) and the country looking lantern on the floor should go.
I think she's going to go far because she's got a lot of spunk and determination.
eh.
Why is there no mention of the wall mural in the background of a few photos? It has "...home" overlaid on the mural.
Tell me more about this! I like the drama of this mural!
The lobby is gorgeous. Not so much a fan of her apartment--I think mostly because the curtain pattern/color just doesn't work for me with everything else going on.
Nice...and I love the shoes!!!!!
Macabre. But interesting.
kelly W meets hospital chic- no seriously looks very cool if you loose all the hospital curtains. Do people in NJ only describe things as glam-something?
just lovely! Simple but not too simple, everything has its place! gorgeous!