A Corn Sculpture/Stool Is Just One of the Quirky Elements in This Brooklyn Home

Name: Savannah Scott, partner Beau, and beagle mix, Benny
Location: Fort Greene — Brooklyn, New York
Type of home: Apartment
Size: 950 square feet
Years lived in: 1 year, renting

Tell us a little (or a lot) about your home and the people who live there: I’m a beauty editor, my partner is a graphic designer, and our dog is a couch potato. We moved to this neighborhood (Fort Greene) a few months into the pandemic, and we’re in love with it now — there are so many restaurants near us, and everyone is so neighborly. When you live in such a big city, it’s nice to get to know the people who live and work around you. We both work from home, so we had to set up a second mini-office in our bedroom, and that’s my desk. It’s perfect because I can just watch our dog sleeping on the couch while I work and wish I was a dog, too. The building itself is a classic brownstone, so it has some run-down aspects, but it’s all a part of the charm. We live on the top floor, so I often think of our downstairs neighbor and how annoying our dog’s zoomies must be for him.

We both love to be comfortable, and we’re big on nap culture. We’re big on blankets and pillows, and I can’t stress this enough, we are obsessed with humidity. We have several humidifiers throughout the apartment for both us and our plants. We also can’t stop buying prints, photographs, and other kinds of art and keep telling each other “this is the last one” and then buy more. I feel like every wall will eventually be a gallery wall. I have about a third of my “The Simpsons” collection in New York; the rest is at my parent’s house in Montreal — so there are a few figurines and prints scattered about. I keep threatening to bring home all my stuffed “The Simpsons” characters and put them on our bed. (I have the whole family.) I don’t know what I’m waiting for. I love vintage chairs, and the rest of our furniture is purchased or given stuff from over the years.

Describe your home’s style in 5 words or less: Colorful, comfortable, and full of humidifiers and “The Simpsons” stuff.

What is your favorite room and why? My favorite room is our bedroom because the corn sculpture is in it. I bought it from Coming Soon in NYC (I signed up for a waiting list to get one), and I often just stare at it and marvel at its beauty. It’s a sculpture, but it’s also a stool, and I love it so much. It brings a little humor to the room.

What’s the last thing you bought (or found!) for your home? I found a hand-stitched quilt from the 1920s on a short road trip to Hawley, Pennsylvania. I had the biggest pretzel of my life in that town, and there are so many antique shops that I couldn’t see them all in one day.

Any advice for creating a home you love? Just hang up the art you’ve been saying you’ll hang up for years, and buy some plants that you won’t kill. All you need is art and plants — it will make any apartment look put together.

This submission’s responses and photos were edited for length/size and clarity.

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