She Stores Sweaters in the Kitchen of Her Pink-Drenched 1920s LA Studio
When Sarah Dyer moved into a bottom-level apartment in Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood, she figured it’d be temporary, so she didn’t make any changes. Fast forward nine years, and she was still living in the same apartment. However, when another studio became available on an upper level, she changed her ways.
“Moving upstairs, I threw apprehension to the wind! I painted the apartment … PINK,” Sarah explains. “And I don’t just mean a little bit of pink; I mean, color-drenched walls, ceiling, baseboards … you get the picture. If you hate pink, avert your eyes!”
The 400-square-foot studio apartment hadn’t been painted in over a decade, and a lot of the existing light fixtures were broken or rusty. Sarah said it was an “all-white blank canvas that needed a little TLC.” She didn’t stop at painting the home using Farrow & Ball’s “Setting Plaster,” though.
Partly inspired by her great-great-aunt Pauline, who drove a pink Cadillac and had an almost entirely pink home as well, Sarah included lots of pink elements in her home, including covering an IKEA sofa with a pink-and-white striped cover from Bemz. “Maybe the pink obsession simply skips a couple generations,” Sarah wonders.
Since moving in, Sarah has made the best use of the space (storing off-season clothes in her kitchen closet, for example) and has made changes beyond just painting the walls (learning how to regrout the kitchen and bathroom via YouTube). She’s put her pink touch on the space, and who’s to say she won’t be there for another almost decade?
Thanks, Sarah!
This tour’s responses and photos were edited for length/size and clarity.
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