“I am categorized as a highly sensitive person, making my attention to detail in my environment extremely important to me. From hue mood lighting to scents and sounds, I have designed a home that hugs your nervous system,” Alysha explains. “The feeling of being in the space is best described as a calm and Zen environment with sprinkles of disco and dance feels.”

Alysha’s 1100-square-foot Williamsburg rental apartment is a corner unit with a rounded, curved living room façade. “My favorite element is its floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room that make you feel like you are secluded in a bubble, watching the world pass by,” she describes.

Her home also features nods to her background. A South Asian immigrant, Alysha Malik grew up in Pakistan in a Muslim family, where she says sex was vilified, yet wives were expected to go from “virgins on the streets to acrobats in the sheets.” This disconnect led to a passion for relationships and human connection, and Alysha is clinically trained in IMAGO relationship theory and in Gottman Level 1 for couples counseling.

• Console Table Entry — Graficial Store 
• Pebble Wall Hooks — Cosymple Store 

• Coffee Table — Wayfair
• Bar Stools — Wayfair
• Headboard for Bed — Urban Outfitters Home
• In Tune, Card Game for Couples — Rythm 

• Farm Wooden Dining Table — Plank + Beam

• Stools — Walmart
• Smeg Toaster — Crate & Barrel

• Red Led Light Therapy — Joov
• Second Bedroom Sofa/Bed — CB2
• Side Tables — Amazon 

• Cheetah Lamp — Urban Outfitters Home 

Thank you for sharing your home and your story, Alysha!

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

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