Name: Veronique & Thierry
Location: SoHo, Manhattan
Size: 700 square feet, 1 bedroom rental
Years lived in: 1+
When Vero and Thierry moved in together, they shed their respective furniture histories. Their new home might seem reminiscent of a couple of recent tours. That's because Maxime of house tour and house call fame has taken it upon himself to help out some friends in need. First it was Pierre, with his apartment in the sky and now Vero and Thierry in SoHo.
Name: Jessica Hische (and her cats Olive and Billy)
Location: Bushwick, Brooklyn NYC
Size: 770 square feet
Years lived in: 1
e on Apartment Therapy have checked in with illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische from time to time, showcasing her Delightful Hand-Crafted Initial Caps (used to the left) and Letterpress Alphabet Posters. It comes as no surprise that her home is as finely tailored as her work.
Name: Able family
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Lived In: 1977 - 1983
I learned to appreciate Marimekko, Herman Miller and good design at a young age — I grew up in a small house from 1907 that had been completely gutted and renovated by my parents. My architect dad and design-enthusiast mom did almost all of the work themselves and the home, in the Broad Ripple neighborhood of Indianapolis, was featured in Indianapolis Home in February of 1980 and Home Magazine in 1981.
Name: Karen Marsh
Profession: Full time: Java Developer, Hobby: Owner of vintage store MackeyBlue
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey
Size: About 1,150 square feet
Years lived in: 8
I first met Karen after I was browsing in her store, MackeyBlue, and both my husband and I were eyeing a gigantic old canvas map of Italy that hung behind the cash wrap. We must have been on our way somewhere and couldn't browse further but a day later I called her from work to inquire how much that map was selling for because it would look just perfect in our home. Too late, the map had sold and I vowed to myself to not hesitate next time I spotted a treasure. Karen herself has similar thinking and loves the hunt for vintage treasures so much that she not only opened her store but has furnished and decorated her whole house with her finds!
Name: Stefanie
Location: Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC
We bought a completely dilapidated limestone home in 2007. Friends would often ask things like "How long was this house abandoned?" It never was — someone lived here right up until he died on the front steps a few months before we bought it. or "Why did you buy this dump?" That question was funny at first until we were about half way through the renovation and wanted to kill each other!
Name: Anna Gabriel
Location: Lower East Side, NYC
Type: Co-op apartment
Size: 1,500 square feet
Years lived in: 3
It's no surprise that Anna's biggest home embarrassment is the lack of storage for her Rock Band guitars and drum kit, since she's the daughter of Rock legend Peter Gabriel. Within minutes of visiting her Lower East Side apartment you get a sense of Anna and her love for people and the arts. Her home is a soulful pad and you realize the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Anna is an amazing artist in her own right — a successful documentary maker, photographer and humanitarian.
Name: Sarah
Location: Upper West Side, New York City
My apartment went through a massive transformation — from grungy rental to urban, light-filled oasis. The use of space is smart. It's about 480 square feet that comfortably houses 2 adults who both work from home, 2 cats and 2 bikes.
Name: Ann
Location: West Village, Manhattan
Size: 2,000 square feet, 3-bedroom house
Years lived in: 10 years
Ann lives amidst Afghan, Uzbek, Turkmen and Indian textiles — to name a few of the things she has carried home over the past 20 years — from around the world. For the past ten years, she's been assembling them in a mid-19th century, 4-story home in the West Village.
Name: Keegan
Location: Hackney neighborhood of London, England
This is my Victorian 1 bedroom converted apartment on the edge of a park in Hackney, London. Moving into my apartment presented many space issues. I was renting a much larger property prior, so I had to find unique ways to store and display my things with the flat feeling cluttered.
Name: Dean Sawyer & Steve Drum
Location: Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Size: about 1,200 square feet
Years lived in: ½
Who else lives here? A mouse (seen once)
Stepping into Dean and Steve's sparse yet comfortable apartment there's a strong desire to curl up on the couch with a cup of tea and skim through a well-worn copy of Moby Dick.
Name: Paul
Location: West Village, Manhattan
Size: 1,700 square feet, 1-bedroom rental
Years lived in: 4 years
While it may seem hard to believe, Paul gut renovated his spacious rental apartment. Clearly, it was in his interest as well as that of his landlord. And neither will regret it. Paul and his partner have an amazing home that fits their needs and aesthetic, while the landlord gets a valuable and eminently more rentable property.
Name: Elodie
Location: Paris, France
I'm a fashion blogger, designer and interior architect and I recently did took some pics of my very little home in Paris — it's a 26 square meter (280 square feet!) studio where I had to find creative solutions to using the space. And I did! We have a little bedroom, a huge wardrobe, a desk to work at home, a dining space and a great living room.
Name: Kristin & Gadge
Location: Greenwich Village, NYC
In 2002 my husband (a photographer) and I (an event designer) managed to find a disaster of a commercial rental space. (We had previously renovated a space in Chelsea, a loft in a wig factory that also housed a bordello.) It is an 1870’s parlor floor of a townhouse in Greenwich Village, an odd space indeed, but that's what made it so challenging and eventually wonderful. But it was truly a disaster! Debris was piled nearly to the top of the 13' + ceilings and we couldn't even see the windows. There was no electric or plumbing to speak of. We saw only those 13' ceilings and signed on immediately.
Name: Jorge Rosso
Location: Coral Gables neighborhood of Miami, Florida
The concept of this house is cheap finds for an expensive look. I am an obsessive hunter for bargains on great stuff, and while it takes a while to put together, the journey is better!
Name: Marcela
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hello! my name is Marcela and I'm an interior designer. Together with my husband Peter and my two sons Thomas and Philip we moved into this house in Buenos Aires, Argentina a year ago. We looked for houses with that were spacious, had a patio, and an older, antique style.
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