Lauren T.'s Profile

Very beautiful - sculptural and elegant. My flesh eating monsters would enjoy perching on it, I bet. But I wouldn't feed them on it. (My flesh eating monsters eat... uh ... well... mostly flesh.)

I was a Furry Paws fan. Then my cat got sick and began to investigate holistic approaches to feline health. This search led me to Whisker's Holistic on east 9th. They also deliver (for free). But they are much more serious about offering a wide range of healthful (organic, non-thermal, single protein, species appropriate, etc.) products for cats and dogs than is Furry Paws. They even make their own line of raw diets. Now I get all of my pre-processed products from Phil and Karen at Whisker's.

Check out their site:
http://1800whiskers.com/V2/template2.php?CHAPITRE=100

Yes please!

Mystery solved! (about how your cat gets down... I haven't even gotten to the new pictures yet... I had to watch the video five times first.)

Andrea - your home looks warm, welcoming and very full of life and humor. Your courage in pulling up stakes and going to grad school is deeply inspiring.

And I grew up with those plates!!! They were the plates my omi and opa had. (My aunt has them now...) Did you get them in Austria? You must really love them to devote one of your six pictures to them...

Thank you for showing us your home.

Interesting space. Wish we could have seen it from different angles. I agree that the photographs don't appear to be doing the finishes justice. Rethinking the furniture, and its arrangement, could do wonders, too. (I imagine one large L-shaped sofa, with its back to the sleeping area, anchored by a largish rug. Moving the bed so that the short side is against the windowed wall, and installing a ceiling height, light-weight curtain to encourage the idea of a separation between sleeping and seating areas...)

It breaks my heart to see a full sized fridge blocking a window, though.

Just looked it all over again - and was struck by the claim: "In New York City you are always surrounded by consumption. Living small makes sure that whatever you bring into the house you better really love..."

The sentiment is noble. But I don't see it expressed by the apartment. This place has gobs and gobs of storage - gobs - but hardly anything brought into the home is visible. Odd.

Now THIS is why I look forward to small cool every year.... Inspiring. It makes my month to see such creative, efficient, thoughtful, elegant work. It makes me want to build something...

The curtains around the bed strike me as a little too fluffy for the environment. Something flatter is wanted. How about roller-shades hung sideways? (Is that even possible?) Or how about something flexible - like the striated wooden slatting that cabinets sometimes have?

I would love to see you guys do to the kitchen what you did to the main space...

There are so many beautiful pieces here! The use of color and light is fantastic. But I really want to move the furniture around!! With the living area at 13' x 17', there should be plenty of space to do something interesting, something other than the dread seating-area-cum-hallway. I also chime in as thinking it would make a huge visual and conceptual difference to hang the separating curtains directly from the ceiling (using a sheer at the top for light, as healthyhome suggests). It would come across as a partition rather than as a clothes-line.

While I agree with Sea and others, that cooler is more challenging the smaller the space, let us not forget that 800 sq feet, for, say, a family of four, would be pretty darn small.

Eddie, your place is a live-in testament to the principle that brevity is the mother of wit.

Would you consider a bit of rug for the living area? Something large enough to underlie both the sofa and the credenza would further unify those pieces, and make the area fell even cozier. Maybe something circular, so that a corner doesn't stick out and upset the perfect balance you've created in the floor plan. Also, I confess that I share others' curiosity about whether the turned wood American-Country pieces are there for stylistic reasons or by convenience. They strike me, too, as a little out of key with the rest.

Thanks for showing us your great space!