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  • beardown
    rekoner
    • Feb 2009
    • 1418

    Interior WAYLT...where are you living today.

    Since this forum is about design and style, I thought it would be cool to see what kinds of dwelling people are living in.
    I've spent a fair amount building a wardrobe that reflects my personal style and taste but I've spent much longer building a home that reflects my personal tastes.
    Some people want their cash in what they wear, some in their homes and some in both...a little here and there.
    More than anything, I think it's interesting to see living spaces of those who have an eye for detail and layout.

    This is my main living area:


    You can see a larger image here.
    Originally posted by mizzar
    Sorry for being kind of a dick to you.
  • move_ment
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2009
    • 430

    #2
    Very interesting! Kinda reminds me of 'A Clockwork Orange' overall aesthetic with a slightly 'flower-power' 50's retro twist.

    What is your inspiration? Do you dress in Rick Owens & CCP? I would love to see a SZ'er walking around the white and orange interior. Would be quite the juxtaposition!

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    • beardown
      rekoner
      • Feb 2009
      • 1418

      #3
      Thanks, Move.
      The aesthetic almost sets itself as many of the features are built in to the home. The layout was inspired by Mies Van Der Rohe so it's a typical modern flat roof, very open with several walls of windows.

      My personal preference are just minimilist...simplicity but with a lot of thought put into form and shape. When I bought the house, there was already a lot of orange details throughout so I went with it.
      There is a lot of black also...the black is actually sometimes overbearing in other rooms but it's more of a modern space feeling than anything else. I often get 'space house' or 'porn house' or 'drug house.'

      My style of dress is similar I guess...but mostly different shades of blacks/whites/grays as a palette. I have quite a bit of Rick Owens and a fair share of VA and DD but it all blends together fairly well I suppose for my tastes.

      Much like my home (which has some nice original pieces peppered with a bit of Ikea and the like) my wardrobe has its fair share of H&M and things like that.
      I'm hoping to see some other peoples' spaces just to see if there are any consistencies between the clothing that they're drawn to and the spaces they live in.
      Originally posted by mizzar
      Sorry for being kind of a dick to you.

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      • AKA*NYC
        Senior Member
        • Nov 2007
        • 3007

        #4
        love it. will trade ro for some interior decoration. we need diego to post up in here.
        LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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        • deleuze
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2007
          • 418

          #5
          Nice, it reminds me very much of the Estenza House which has always been one of my favorites.

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          • beardown
            rekoner
            • Feb 2009
            • 1418

            #6
            Thanks guys. Like I was saying, some of it is as simple as Ikea or West Elm...a lot of it was tracked down through Ebay or other online vintage spots.
            This is my study/tv room taken from the outside. There's a courtyard there so despite all of the windows (in the first photo you can see snow...it's the back yard) you can't see into the house unless you're directly on the property which is surrounded by a big privacy fence:



            AKA, I have a few interior pieces that I'm not using...mostly things like dropped sphere lights, stools, planters...things like that. Not a whole lot of 'exclusive' stuff that aren't being used.
            Originally posted by mizzar
            Sorry for being kind of a dick to you.

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            • AKA*NYC
              Senior Member
              • Nov 2007
              • 3007

              #7
              Originally posted by beardown View Post
              Thanks guys. Like I was saying, some of it is as simple as Ikea or West Elm...a lot of it was tracked down through Ebay or other online vintage spots.
              This is my study/tv room taken from the outside. There's a courtyard there so despite all of the windows (in the first photo you can see snow...it's the back yard) you can't see into the house unless you're directly on the property which is surrounded by a big privacy fence:



              AKA, I have a few interior pieces that I'm not using...mostly things like dropped sphere lights, stools, planters...things like that. Not a whole lot of 'exclusive' stuff that aren't being used.
              again, gorgeous. makes me jealous. i really wish i had aptitude in this department but when it comes to design or decorating i have two left hands and half a brain.
              LOVE THE SHIRST... HOW much?

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #8
                Beardown, your place is awesome. Yea, Diego posted some pix of his ballar LA pad - fantastic stuff.
                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                • philip nod
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 5903

                  #9
                  must be really nice to have a big living space. i have a lot of furniture from the era as well, and have inherited an interior design and former antiques dealer mother so i feel i have since an early age acquired a small off handed mastery of this topic.

                  one of the problems with interior design is its relationship to art. it often is so committed to bringing together an aesthetic from an era that it fails to realize that while the furniture, carpet et al may create era cohesion, the relics or thrift store goodies or whatever ends up on the walls, usually is clumsy garbage bought on the cheap in the style of.
                  the aesthetic or design then becomes claustrophobic. art should balance out and make the interior less pronounced. it should bridge the interior to a contemporary one, just as wearing rick owens on a eames lounge chair would. the idea is to buy more or less only the classics, and supplement them with art from a different era otherwise you find yourself on a film set.

                  one of the reasons mies van der rohe's barcelona pavilion succeeds in my opinion is because the marble is just overwhelming and incredible. it becomes the art which emboldens the scissor chairs.

                  you should check out jim isermann beardown, his early work is something you would like.
                  One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                  • kunk75
                    Banned
                    • May 2008
                    • 3364

                    #10
                    beardown are you in a house or a condo?

                    though i'd prefer to go ultra mod, our house is a tudor and it would look odd so the whole place is mostly mid century modern, lots of knoll and eames and saarinen, with some cb2 and ikea bargains thrown in.

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                    • kunk75
                      Banned
                      • May 2008
                      • 3364

                      #11
                      and how'd you do those wall panels? they are amazing.

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                      • marco-von
                        Senior Member
                        • Feb 2009
                        • 133

                        #12
                        Nice looking space beardown. It looks so warm and homely which in my mind is the most important thing, the rest is a reflection of an enviroment you feel comfortable in. My place is made up of the cheaper must haves from ikea then the other pieces which are more expensive is what will follow me from house to house.

                        Also just finishing up building an extension for my parents, just got the 2nd bathroom to do and some decking in the garden! Looks really cool and the old dutch has got a good eye for design. Will try and get some pictures up but its not exactly worthy of an episode of Grand Designs with Kev McCloud !

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                        • kunk75
                          Banned
                          • May 2008
                          • 3364

                          #13
                          we're getting ready to start a second bathroom-with me and 3 boys, the wife deserves her own. good luck!

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                          • beardown
                            rekoner
                            • Feb 2009
                            • 1418

                            #14
                            Thanks for all the comments...I consider myself lucky because I lived in 1-bedroom apts for a decade saving money for an eventual home so this is just a free standing house in a small neighborhood.
                            The cost of living here (ohio) is so cheap that I got a good deal on it. I'm just an artist so I'm not rich but I worked for a company in CA and when people came out here they thought it was a super expensive home but it was very mid range even for this region.

                            I don't have any other interior design experience...I just tried to start with the built in shapes and patterns and colors and work around those.
                            There is an Eames Case Study unit built into the wall of the study so I tried to mirror the lines and weight in the kind of Mondrian wall decoration.

                            Kunk, that wall was really easy....took me just about a half day to complete. I drew out the scaled down proportions of the wall on a sheet of paper and sketched out the break of the shapes (which was just random intersections). After that, I took a chalk line and mocked it all up on the wall itself.
                            I painted a few of the squares in a scheme from the wall hanging on the opposite wall.
                            I bought 12' length of 1.5" slat (very thin kind), painted it all black and cut it out to the measured dimensions as I went.
                            So the black slat actually 'traps' the painted panels on the wall there was room to be a little sloppy.
                            I used a little electric stapler with some brads to put the slats into the wall. Kind of a fun project to do and with some muted colors, you can create even really subtle effects overall.

                            I wanted to try to avoid having something to kitschy or too dramatic...the orange color can be a bit overwhelming at times but it's a kind of dirty brown/orange in most locations so it's not too loud.

                            If anyone wants any suggestions or sources for stuff, just let me know. Again, I'm no expert...just kind of something fun I've done on the side but I have a lot of experience with lighting installation and things like that.
                            Originally posted by mizzar
                            Sorry for being kind of a dick to you.

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                            • kunk75
                              Banned
                              • May 2008
                              • 3364

                              #15
                              i will take any suggestions you have for stuff on the "cheap".

                              the walls look terrific. color in general is very polarizing, but who cares; it's your home and no one else's.

                              our dining room is yellow. halls are orange and slate grey. living room is scarlet and cream. all the bedrooms are chocolate and sky blue. after 5 years in a white-walled co-op, we knew we'd liberally throw the color around once we owned.

                              p.s. would love to see some shots of the other rooms. we generally like to keep people in the living room as it's the most together room in the house.

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