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What do you do with a white walls, brick, and cold concrete: Add lots of color! Holly Conrad's studio loft in the heart of Chicago is refreshing and full of vibrant colors.
Name: NinaLocation: West VillageSize: 450 square feet subletYears lived in: 1.5 years >> Nina’s last apartment was very frilly and pink. This apartment is much more on the opposite end of the stereotypically gendered design spectrum. And Nina loves it that way and feels at home. In addition to being an interior designer, Nina writes a design blog and is about to launch a small design store in NoLita!
Name: David Tomb and Susan SweetLocation: San FranciscoSize: Living area 1700 sq. ft., office/studio 700 sq. ft.Years lived in: 10 years owned >> Back in 1996, the architect Bruce Tomb heard about a 1950s dragnet-style police precinct coming up for public auction in San Francisco. At the time, Bruce’s brother, the artist David Tomb, and his wife, Susan Sweet, were living in New York, but hoping to come back to the Bay Area to start a family.
Name: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Location: Mumbai, IndiaSize: 1150 sq. ft.Years lived in: 5 >> Like a Bollywood spectacle, today’s house tour is an ode to all things colourful, a Mumbai residence with spaces that radiate the creative personality of its occupants through the glowing spectrum of paints, the texture of decorative details and an apparent love for the handmade evident in each of the rooms. Stark minimalism this is not.
Feeling stifled by your small space? Just because you’re tied to a small footprint doesn’t mean your home has to feel limiting. Just ask tiny home dwellers. All you need to do is shift your thinking. To help you maximize the space you do have, we asked designers to share their best tips—no renovations required.“When floor space is at a premium, take to the walls,” says Decorist designerErika Dale.
Katherine‘s master bathroom was filled with wasted space, with a wall of closets and a separate room for the toilet and tub contributing to the cramped floor plan. In order to reveal this space’s true potential, “we pretty much had to start from scratch,” Katherine says. “It was in need of a major facelift.” They started by ripping out everything: unnecessary walls; the dark, gloomy builder-grade cabinetry; even the toilet.
It’s one thing to have buyer’s remorse when it comes to an over-size sectional that doesn’t exactly fit in your living room. But what’s the best way to handle buyer’s remorse over the purchase of your home—perhaps the biggest purchase of your life so far—which you are now seriously regretting? First of all, keep in mind that buyer’s remorse may be a mask for something deeper.
Every year, you’re entitled to a free credit report. You can consider it a financial wellness exam of sorts as the comprehensive report details your credit activity, getting into the nitty-gritty details of on-time payments and credit limits. But, this all-encompassing report won’t just automatically arrive in your mailbox. You’ve got to ask for it. Here’s what you need to know about requesting your Annual Credit Report, and what it all includes.
Name: Samantha Martin-EvansLocation: San Francisco, CASize: 950 sq. ft., 2-bedroom Edwardian carriage houseYears lived in: 11, owned >> Photographer Samantha Martin-Evans doesn’t know whether her hundred-year-old Edwardian cottage in Noe Valley was ever actually used as a carriage house, but one thing is for certain: the interior has come a long way from its buttoned-up origins.
Name: Archana, Srinivas MallikaLocation: BangaloreSize: 2900 sq. ft apartment Years lived in: 4 Months >> Today we make our way back across the globe for our second house tour from Bangalore, India, this time visiting the spacious and traditionally decorted home of Archana, Srinivas & Mallika.
Name: Alberto and JeffLocation: Fort Greene/BAM, BrooklynSize: 1360 sqft. 2-bdrm condoYears lived in: 1.5 months >> Alberto and Jeff had a year and a half between closing and moving in to their new condo, to plan. According to Alberto, a house tour veteran, Jeff made multiple copies of a detailed floorplan of the new apartment and used the interim 18 months to sketch ideas as well as to plot out the sequence of events that would occur the moment they were handed the key.
Name: Rajiv Majumdar, Architect, PraxisLocation: Bangalore, India Size: 500 sq. ft Years lived in: 4 months We’re very happy to present our first house tour from India, compliments of architect, Rajiv Majumdar, whose modest sized 500 sq. ft. apartment is an amalgam of styles, components, textures and colours.
Name:Simon and EktorasLocation: East VillageSize: 515 sqft rented railroad flatYears lived in: 25 years >> Ektoras, a video artist and bartender, and Simon, an actor and photographer, share a small railroad flat in a 155 year-old tenement building with a bathtub in the kitchen.
Name: Kelly Van PatterLocation: Mt. Washington, Los AngelesSize: 1500 sq. ft.Years lived in: 4 years >> Just a hop, skip and jump from the last house tour we photographed in the scenic and historic inclines of Mt. Washington, we found ourselves on a street lined with genteel homes all glowing of Los Angeles’ oft forgotten past.
Name: Sherry and Miguel, owners of MarvimonLocation: Chinatown/Elysian parkSize: 3,500 sq. feet (interior) + 2,500 sq. feet (vertical courtyard)Years lived in: 3 years >> Walking into Sherry and Miguel’s home is quite the experience. Quite larger than most AT House Tours, they manage to make the space feel warm and cozy, despite its enormous size. It turns out that the space was once an automobile showroom displaying Italian cars in the 1920s.
Name: Kadri Teider and husband Location: London, United Kingdom Size: 345 square feet Years lived in: 4.5 years, renting We found this little flat when we first moved to London, and it’s fair to say it wasn’t love at first sight (due to its size!). We were only planning to live here for a year max but then quickly realized how conveniently located everything around here was and decided to stay and embrace it.
