Gregory Beauchamp likes to say that his home in Venice Beach, California, is a stone’s throw from the ocean — but only if you have a good arm. With his penchant for oranges, reds and browns, Gregory likes to channel a sort of city version of 1970s off-the-grid living, but where the hippies would have…
Klara Bothén’s home in Dals Långed, a small town in southwest Sweden, is a 100-year-old workman’s cottage that was built strategically close to the local factory, which once manufactured horseshoe nails. The space and surrounding landscape of forests and lakes provide ample inspiration for her work, which is deeply connected to home, identity, objects and…
I’m super excited to end today’s peeks with our first sneak peek from Beijing, China. We’re glimpsing the home of artist Shirin Sahba and her husband, Na’im Moore, a consultant. During their six years of marriage, the couple has moved six times. (Shirin blogs about their adventures here.) They moved into this flat in Beijing…
As someone who has recently started working from home on a more full-time basis, I’m always interested to see the creative ways people use their space to mix their work and personal life. Anne Ulku is a freelance graphic designer based in Minneapolis who primarily works in print, balancing a mix of client work with…
This apartment in Paris’ 1st arrondissement, just around the corner from the Louvre, is home to a+b kasha designer Ida, Pierre-Edouard, a motion designer and director, and their black cat, Alfred. Ida is Swedish and is strongly influenced by Scandinavian design (she even blogs about the topic). The apartment is tiny and doesn’t have much…
Just two weeks ago, we got a little peek into the New Orleans home of Egg Collective designer Hillary Petrie, and today we’re heading north for a look into another Egg Collective home. Crystal Ellis lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she just finished an MFA in sculpture at RISD. During her time at school,…
Caitlin Flemming of Sacramento Street and her husband, Eric, moved into this studio apartment a little over five years ago. When they found this gem nestled in Laurel Heights, San Francisco, it was love at first sight; the beautiful hardwood floors, glass French doors leading into the living room/bedroom and the bay windows that look…
Independent graphic designer Kelli Anderson and her user-experience/user-interface designer partner, Daniel Dunnam, both work from home, so their space is under constant scrutiny. The one-room loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a knitting factory in a past life before being converted to apartments in the 1990s, and it provides them with great light and open space. At…
Emma Jane Noren is a Swedish photographer based in London. She shares her lovely factory-converted flat with her property developer/actor partner, Ricky, who renovated the flat. They worked together to make a comfortable, open and cool living space, softening up the industrial look by mixing old with new. The light-filled space not only provides a…
Graphic designer by day and illustrator/printmaker/doodler by night, Sarah Sharpe loves creating abstract patterns using conflicting colors and has a personal style expressed through bold textiles, vintage scarves and lots of color. While her day job for a large company does little to stimulate her creativity, she uses evenings at home to create a nice…
Just a couple of months ago, San Francisco-based party planner and letterpress printer Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day!, put all her furniture in storage and moved to Paris for a year with her two young sons and husband Paul. Living in Paris for a year had been on the couple’s must do list for…
Home to designer Jimmie Martin and photographer Rick Schultz, this 670-sq. ft. apartment in a Georgian building in Bayswater, London, is the creation of Jimmie’s interior design mind (and photographed by Rick). Believe it or not, this one-bedroom first-floor flat is a rental while they search for the right property to buy. That didn’t stop…
Artist Kate Durkin and her husband Lenny moved to Sunnyside, Queens from San Francisco a year and a half ago with 10 boxes and no furniture. They chose this apartment because of its open kitchen/dinging room/living area, and they love to put on music, cook and still be hanging out with friends in the living room….
Theresa and Elias Carlson have lived in this small Seattle apartment for three and a half years. The couple’s day jobs don’t allow them to be quite as creative as they’d like, so they started this super cute joint blog and developed a growing photography passion. In addition, they spend a significant chunk of time working…
Almost immediately after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Lizzy Janssen moved to the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia. During the day, she works as a designer for Free People, and she spends her free time working out of this jewel-box apartment — literally, the apartment was originally a jewelry shop — working on…
Sam Horine is a freelance photographer based in New York. He and his wife, Robin Wellington, and cat, Franklin, moved into this 500-square-foot apartment in the South Slope/Windsor Terrace area of Brooklyn four years ago. At the time, it was a complete mess, with an overgrown yard filled with trash and walls in every hideous pastel…
Many people claim their abode is small, but designer Christen Maxwell’s West Village apartment is positively tiny — it measures only 7-ft. wide by 53-ft. long. Christen describes it as “the size of a semi-truck container!” It is two bedrooms (one bedroom is used as a studio/warehouse) and since it’s only only 375 sq. ft., Christen…
Whitney and Dustin are the amazing wedding- and lifestyle-photography duo behind Oh, Darling. I met Whitney and Dustin this summer after they moved in January from Savannah so that Whitney, who also writes Darling Dexter, could return to school to study fashion design. And then in June, they moved again from a tiny East Village…
Textile designer Sarah Caniot and photographer Nicolas Grandmaison call the 12th arrondisement of Paris between Bastille and Nation home. Their two-story apartment is only 54m2 (581 sq. ft.) and it provides both living and workspace for Sarah’s line of fun homewares, Ma Mamie Hippie. The apartment was recently renovated and is now completely open with…
Megan Fickling’s one-bedroom apartment in Santa Monica, California, is bright and cheerful, which makes sense considering Megan designs flowers and events for a living! The bright, fun and fresh look directly corresponds to Megan’s floral design style — it’s a happy creative California vibe! Thanks, Megan! And many thanks to Erin Hearts Court for the lovely…
