tarachan

Things have calmed down a bit, so I'm able to spend a bit of time on the interior of my new apartment. I've had the floor-to-ceiling "porn mirror" wardrobes taken out of my bedroom because they take up so much space. I'm also just about to get the wall between the kitchen and large sitting room taken down too, because as it's a one bedroom apartment, I want to make it more open plan. There is also a small corridor running along the living room which is dead space, and if I get rid of the wall I can use a space at one side of the living room and beside the kitchen as a mini studio. It has enough space to put up the backdrop and set up my studio lights, so great for portraits. It makes it a bit easier too to be able to shoot at home because sometimes you have an idea that you just need to try - even if it's 4am (^ ^)

I've just bought a lovely divan bed with the most comfortable mattress I've ever had in my life. I've not been around many weekends to enjoy it, but last Saturday I slept in without waking up until 3:30 in the afternoon. I love doing that occasionally. Especially as I've been working hard recently, and in Manchester or London most weekends after coming back from Ibiza. I'm loving it here, and it's great to wake up at the weekend, put some coffee on and run the bath.



Other purchases are a massive bright orange Smeg fridge / freezer which I adore, a decent washer / dryer and a bunch of glassware etc. I've added a load of kitch things in the apartment, but it's still looking quite normal, just a little bit funky. Most of the funky stuff I have for it came from eBay. Stuff like original G-Plan nest of tables, reproduction Isamu Noguchi coffee table, and a multi-coloured chandelier for the bathroom.



I also bought a fantastic mannequin and she wears a funky vintage green dress from a local modern antiques place, and I have a space projector to project oil slides on the walls. Artwork is a combination of my photos, friends' artwork, a photograph of a mountain that was my grandfather's and reminds me of him, and recently a set of Miss Van prints.



The interior was going to be "retro manhatten", but it seems retro is the new minimalist, which was the new gray, which was...... So, now it's "future retro". If you imagine an apartment in 2006 designed in 1966; that's what it should look like. I'm putting in an LED effect in the wall next to the chimney breast which will display music from an audio input and an ambient microphone in a graphic equalizer kind of display - but the whole height of the wall! The little hall between the shared hallway and my apartment will be a duck egg blue with glitter, and white stylized trees, pink neon striplights and astroturf on the floor. I just want it to be the kind of place that I love to chill out in, have people over and that makes me feel happy to live in. I guess it's all the small details that'll make it interesting....I hope!



I'll stick more pictures up when I take them (^ ^)