The leasing agent for our new apartment indicated that it was the latest in ultra modern. It does look quite trendy with its white walls and strategically placed black panels. It has a movable wall that allows the extra room to become a private bedroom, a window that spans one entire side of the apartment, cabinetry in the kitchen that makes the dishwasher and refrigerator ‘disappear’, a touch sensitive stove top (no mechanical knobs or buttons), and heated floors. Yeah, it’s pretty modern. The latest in ultra modern means that there are no ceiling lights of any kind: no hanging lights, no room lights – nothing. The only lights in the whole apartment are in the bathrooms and under the cabinets in the kitchen. The bathroom is very sleek (read: no storage except for a built-in medicine cabinet) and the shower curtain hangs on a track attached to the ceiling. We didn’t know just how trendy this was until we went to the store to find an 8’ shower curtain doesn’t exist. Our Rube Goldberg fix had the shower curtain hanging from the track on 2 sets of curtain rings so that it would hang 1” into the tub. Curtains are another matter – most curtains come in 9’ lengths, not 8’ and they are either sheer, ugly or both – we are currently living in a fish-bowl (as my Mom would say). All-in-all our super, ultra modern apartment is totally cool. Our stuff looks great in it, it’s plenty big and we are happy to be moved in to our new home. We can’t wait to get all our pictures hung up, but haven’t quite figured out how to drive a nail into the concrete walls… You can find pictures of our apartment here.
3 comments:
Your place is totally film noir - like an independent film set for some no-name irish filmaker!! In other words cool. I really like that glass wall, especially the net address across it. Too bad you are so close to the street level, higher up you could probably get away with not putting up screens. Guess it depends on how venturous you feel, living in the fish bowl. And I will compliment your good taste in dining room area rugs. I have the same rugs in an olive/brown colorway in my family room! Anyway, place looks great, hope you are settling in nicely.
You can throw away that tape measure, EVERYTHING there is metric, that includes the boards they built the walls with, the drywall, etc. 9ft is probably 3m, your 8ft might be 2.5m or 2.75m. You nee to think metric, because you are definitely living it now.
As to the ultra modern apartment? I think Frankie (FLW) had similar designs a hundred years ago - no closets, few lights, fish bowl (no curtains intended), etc. Are your book shelves built in? I bet they stole that from Frankie too, along with the modular rooms. He used 32in squares, I bet they use 1m. Something to think about. So do you think of it as a Usonian style apartment?
Here's one of my favorites:
http://www.thewilleyhouse.com/thewilleyhouse.html
A cross between a Prarie House and a Usonian. Check out the Massing model, its great! He used the 32 inch block pattern here, and the modular rooms too.
CJ
Your furniture looks fantastic in the space. Very FLW of you in all sorts of ways. I cannot wait to see it in person.
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