My Style: Modern vintage wabi-sabi

Inspiration: Looking at photos of other artists’ houses of the past.

Favorite Element: I love this house because of the high ceilings and moldings. Filling it with pieces of me makes me feel like I’m part of a larger history of this house. I love waking up to it all.

Biggest Challenge: The house is from the 1890s and remodeled in the 1970s, so there are some upkeep and modernization things we would like to do.

Proudest DIY: The whole house is a DIY when you are living on an artist’s budget. For example, I use reclaimed fruit boxes for bookshelves in my room and Torryne makes a lot of ceramics we use for dishware.

Biggest Indulgence: Hand-printed and bound art book of “Ham on Rye” by Charles Bukowski from Prototype Press.

Best Advice: Invest in a couple of items that are an investment, but you’ll use them a lot and keep them around more than something cheap. Not only that, you’re supporting an economy of fairly paid craftspeople and maybe even your local community.

What’s your best home secret? I’m still trying to learn all the secrets myself. Shop at farmers markets during the final hour and get cheaper produce. Buy art from local artists. Clean with fragrance-free products.

• Paint and colors —  Dunn Edwards, “Cottage White” and “Cavernous”

• Artworks — BLM poster by The Aesthetic Union; JB Blunk edition produced by The Aesthetic Union; painting of man in cowboy hat by Tom Jean Webb; Monument Valley Print by Toshi Yoshida; and a woodcut of a woman by Nancy Loeber.

• Sofa — Togo Ligne Roset USA
• Light — Nelson Lamp
• Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski, hand printed and bound by Prototype Press (ArtBook)
• Skeleton Painting — Butch Anthony
• Over mantel print — Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Table — Antique French Country Table
• Benches — Handmade
• Chairs: — Vintage Danish Folke Palsson J77
• Ceramics — Torryne Choate 

• Couch — De La Espada
• Man in Bear Hat Artwork — Felipe Merida
• Green Dots Artwork — James Lewis Tucker
• Small Landscape Artwork — James Lewis Tucker

• Espresso Machine — Mr. Espresso
• Jean-Michel Basquiat print
• Running woman painting — Anastasia Tumanova
• Ceramics — Torryne Choate

• Bed Linens — Parachute
• Bedside light — Julie Cloutier and Rico Duenas
• Joshua Rampage abstract painting
• Emille Norman print
• Ronald Chase abstract painting
• Black circle painting — Summers Moore
• Anna Fusco print
• David Benzler abstract painting
• Pink circle painting — Julian Watts
• Black and Red “U” print — Yuri Shimojo

• Bed Linens — Parachute
• Artwork — Ben Prince (large painting)
• Lamp — Serge Mouille
• Small Light — Rico Duenas

Thanks James and Torryne!

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