Korean Curtains
The Korean Instagrammers I follow have minimalist homes with a lot of white and wood. But sometimes they throw in a patterned curtain….
@hami.mommy (also above):
Our Old Apartment in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn
From 2014 to 2018 I lived in a mediocre apartment just south of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I had moved in with my boyfriend (turned husband) and quit my product manager job at Kickstarter to become a math teacher, so I moved to a cheaper neighborhood and upped the square footage. Teaching was so all-consuming that I didn’t take any “real” photos of the place; I can’t find any photos of the hallway I painted green. Here are a few old pics from my barely-used Instagram account during that period.
Hated the floors.
Loved these plastic rugs, but they were hard to keep steady on the hardwood. I moved them to our living room to be held in place by our coffee table, which worked a little better.
The coffee table was a hand-me-down from Kickstarter’s original office in Manhattan, which they cleared out when moving to their new space in Brooklyn. I used it as a bench in our next apartment’s kitchen, and now it’s on our balcony in Israel.
The sun, figurines, and magnet I taped to the wall are from Mexico City.
Masquespacio’s Tiles
Spanish design studio Masquespacio does the most amazing tile work. Look at this restaurant! La Sastrería, in Valencia, Spain.
Also in Valencia is this tropical sushi restaurant, Kaikaya:
And below is a new project of theirs, an office space for Cuardernos Rubio, a company that designs playful educational content and stationary.
It’s all so fun.
My Old Apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
From 2011 to 2014 I lived on a beautiful street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in the one gray building on the block. It was a 500 sq ft (46 sq meter) studio with an alcove archway and great sunlight.
I bought the mermaid painting at Miss Pixie’s when I lived in Washington, DC, and it traveled with me to all four apartments in Brooklyn and it’s now with me in Modiin, Israel. The dead space bottom left of it isn’t great (nor is the cheapo silver mirror). But that’s life in your 20s….
The white sofa is from IKEA. Over time it got dirty and I’ve since re-covered it in gray velvet thanks to Comfort Works. It’s still with me now in Israel. If I were designing this today, I would turn the couch facing the windows, back to the bed, to create two distinct living spaces.
I got rid of the two Robert Longo Men in the Cities posters when I moved in with my boyfriend (now husband), who refused to have them around. I had bought them from a woman in Alexandria, Virginia, who said she loved them but her husband refused to have them around.