It's been an amazing week full of love for some spaces that Rich and I have designed together. The Joshua Tree House was featured on Apartment Therapy, Dot & Bo, Refinery29, Gal Meets Glam, and Uncrate... all in one week! I know I already kind of said that, but whoa. We also had our SF apartment featured on Apartment Therapy! An exciting week for us to say the least. We absolutely love designing spaces because the experiences within them can be so strong. The goal of a wonderful experience gives us great purpose to design with. For example, rather than starting with the idea of a hanging chair because they're cool, we like to start with questions like: "Which part of this room gets morning sun? Ok, let's put a hanging chair there. What else would make a morning special? How about some coffee... and some relaxing music. Ok - a chemex in the kitchen with local coffee beans and a record player near the hanging chair." Now there's an experience we're excited about.Now, here are some shots of our apartment in San Francisco!
I won't blab on anymore, but if you do want to read more there's a full interview on Dot & Bo, and and full source lists on Apartment Therapy!photos by Ellie Lillstrom Photography+ Apartment Therapy (The Joshua Tree House)+ Apartment Therapy (SF apartment)+ Dot & Bo + Refinery29+ Gal Meets Glam+ Uncrate Our focus is to deliver the concierge driven lifestyle and five star service our residents have come to expect. The Walkway residences are posh Uptown, Minneapolis apartments that add luxury to your life. Experience aged birch hardwood floors, large walk-in closets (with custom built-ins), teak cabinets with quartz countertops and under mount sinks, upgraded appliance packages (gas cook tops, wall ovens and side-by-side refrigerators), designer lighting and plumbing fixtures, ceramic tile bathroom floors and showers, underground heated parking with indoor pay stations, available guest parking, a car wash service, and more.Leah Goren is an illustrator and surface pattern designer who runs an online shop that sells products printed with her whimsical, nature-inspired illustrations.
(Her Red Cat tank is on Amy’s wish list). She shares this Brooklyn apartment with her boyfriend, graphic designer Dylan Ousley, who runs his own branding and design shop, named Home Ec. Leah describes Dylan’s aesthetic as sparse and Mid-Century modern, while she leans toward pastel colors, floral patterning and decorative odds and ends – much like her work. Though their decorating tastes differ, they certainly don’t clash; rather, they blend harmoniously throughout their apartment and workspace. The dining nook, filled with plants, light and fresh flowers, is their favorite thing about their home. Thank you, Leah and Dylan! Image above: My desk is a 1950s steelcase tanker desk that I bought from a friend who was tired of moving it every time he moved. It’s a serious, powerful desk, and is really, really heavy – I also hope I never have to move it again! Dylan has a similar vintage desk in his area but it’s wood, and we found it at Green Village, a used furniture and clothing store near our apartment in Bushwick.
Green Village is a huge warehouse packed with furniture and bric-a-brac from floor to ceiling, and we come here all the time to search for new things. Image above: Our dining table is the Docksta from IKEA and the rug is from West Elm. The green bentwood chairs are from a Brooklyn vintage shop, and the one mismatched chair was found on our block. See more of Leah and Dylan’s Brooklyn home after the jump… Image above: Our couch is a hand-me-down from our neighbor. It was his grandfather’s and we couldn’t bear to see him throw it away, so we took it in. It came pre-cat scratched by his grandfather’s cat, Nappers, and it’s really kind of ugly, but I think we make it work with lots of pillows and patterns. The cactus print pillow is my favorite, it’s by Sian Keegan via Society6. We have a second Eames Hang-It-All in here too, this one in walnut. Image above: These chairs sit opposite the couch. I found them broken and cushionless on the street near my last apartment in Williamsburg, and we had them completely fixed up.
The side table is from West Elm. Image above: This little bookshelf is crammed full of art books, zines, and magazine. Above it hangs a little painting on wood panel by my friend Tuesday Bassen, a couple prints from Becca Stadtlander, and one of my own paintings. Image above: We have an IKEA butcher block and an IKEA rail and hooks for extra storage that Dylan installed on a shelf he built. This area is super important because we drink tons of coffee! Image above: I love how green our dining room is (as noted many times as the favorite part of the house!). We built shelves into the window to hold plants and help disguise the bars on the window. The painting is my favorite of all because it’s one of my mom’s from before I was born, and of course because it’s of a cat. She painted Bootsie at the Egyptian apartments in San Diego and it’s perfect because he’s surrounded by plants in the painting and where it now hangs. Image above: Our apartment doesn’t have any closets, so our bedroom serves that purpose.
It’s filled with mismatched drawers and shelves for clothing and shoe storage, and we have clothing racks built-in on the opposite wall. Our bedframe is from IKEA and has drawers below for extra storage. All the other furniture is secondhand. Image above: I found this cat pillow at a Salvation Army in San Diego for $1 and had to have it. It’s the perfect mix of whimsical, girly, and totally surreal. The bird-print duvet is from West Elm. Image above: Another grouping of paintings and prints by friends on the right side – on top is a painting by Pete Gamlen and a screen print by Rachel Levit, a painting by Yelena Bryksenkova is below, and a Young Frankk brass collar necklace hangs in the middle. On the left is an old drawing of a girl and boy that I found at the Chelsea Garage Antique Market, another favorite place for finding old things. Image above: My sewing table is a little vintage farm table that sits opposite our flat files. The chair is thrifted and the flat files were a lucky score on Craigslist.