This 1-Bedroom Chelsea Apartment is a Portal to Deep Space | Interior Lives

[@jennikaye7412]

I'm living alone for the first time and felt such pressure to achieve a minimalist aesthetic until I saw this video. I no lie went to the thrift store after watching this and bought everything that just made me happy. Thank you for the inspiration

[@batheandrelaxinmyshit6344]

I did the same thing too. My future and other stuff lasted me for over 20 years. Now I have bought new furniture and it should last for more than 20 years. My new and old stuff bring me happiness too.

[@shawtatl]

Exactly.... I applaud you dearest

[@Plethorality]

Jenni Kaye so glad you did. minimalist can be great for. (ahem, minimal) function, sometimes, but such a limiting aesthetic. your solution was very wise. things don't have to be expensive, or hoarded. one finds one's own balance of joy and function. I hope you find even more joy in your surroundings. : )

[@themodernhippie9736]

Be yourself, express yourself. Minimalism is about not conforming to consumerism. Not about not having things. IMO those hardcore minimalist type simply don’t have anything interesting to show or express the,selves. If your an artist be an artist.

[@sakitrain7766]

Awwww... that's awesome! More power to you!

[@darlahorton4837]

Nobody is perfect but anyone can be fabulous. Sir you are fabulous!

[@selenazhou7640]

So confused by all the negative and downright angry comments on this page. "He should have his eyes gouged out" from user JacksonPolyp - really, dude? And countless others saying they would never live a style like this...that's cool. Good thing this video's not about you! Really strange how people can get worked up over some color and hand crafted furniture. I'm sorry some of you seem to live bitter and close-minded lives, and I hope you find peace. NY Mag, I don't need hundreds of videos on minimalism, I would love more content in this direction! ANYWAY, this apartment is a dream! This reminds me how I loved to fantasize about how to transform my militant college dorm room into a more intentional space I could truly call my own, beyond the standard school furniture and some pictures on the walls. (It was always a challenge and I was always lazy.) I just finished undergrad and will hopefully be finding my own place soon. Doug definitely inspires me to think big! I love his discerning eye.

[@NewYorkMagazine]

Preach!

[@rosepetal34]

i think its wonderful!/ can't understand those people either

[@shas1225]

well said

[@molierresignoga]

I think they're jealous!

[@KimiTheV]

@@molierresignoga . I thought the same thing. They might be to afraid to be themselves. So they feel threatened by anybody else who just doesn't care what other people think.

[@cryingsobbing]

people like him make the world more interesting

[@risk5riskmks93]

“Your given situation does not have to be the situation you accept and live with,” is the message I needed to day, and I mean that in a much larger context than design. Thank you.

[@christinecameron1612]

That is a LOT of work and care and creativity, wow

[@DobbysStinkySock]

It's like Tim Burton met Dr. Seuss in space and had a baby

[@SKCothrenArt]

Yes!!

[@zhibyful]

I love his boldness. Fun!

[@debibarrington8348]

Its not boldness its coldness

[@nerfertitiofza6183]

I look at him and look at what he has done with the apartment...It does not match...and that is the most beautiful thing...that you can never expect such creativity from someone like him...

[@WikeddTung]

I couldn't live with that but I appreciate the creativity and imagination that went into it.

[@jordand.6032]

This is so cool, I couldn't even conceive thinking up a house like this! We are so conditioned to having traditional households when really we could just live vicariously through cool wallpapers or installations in our own homes, truly making them *our* spaces. I do wish we got a closer look at some of the art in his house.

[@MaggieCat1998]

I couldn’t live there, but the integration of his art and design into his home is inspiring! Watching this reminded me of the importance of taking the time when designing your own space to make it as you want it to be! You’re your own client so go wild.

[@maplecookies2036]

Very creative ! He's got his own creative style and he's quite colorful ! If he's happy then that's all that matters !

[@MR-tn5kv]

LOVE his Spaces! Endlessly stimulating ❤

[@aanon5716]

i love people who are bold in whatever they do & their love of life shows in their creativeness & going for it.

[@amandaray9027]

This is meant as a compliment... the space looks like Bikini Bottom from SpongeBob and I want to live there!!!

[@lauravelasquez5397]

Amanda Ray ahhaha I agree but dunno if he would take it as a compliment

[@SKCothrenArt]

Yes!! And we can! Paint is cheap and so fun to use!

[@hellowhitepeople]

oh yeah, this is awesome, i love the rug.

[@MR-tn5kv]

Fun! Not the usual, same, same sterile nyc spaces and people - this one inspires creativity!

[@catapillargirl2021]

I love fun and different and not having to care about getting your security deposit back. The comment section is so judge-y. I wonder how fantastically inspiring their spaces are.

[@bellbookcandle3051]

This is now in my Top 5 from The Cut - the imagination & creativity here is in a league by itself! 👾🖼🚀🤗

[@starveartist]

Love how he just goes for it and makes the whole space a layered reflection of his creativity

[@Frostgrl681]

I love the different moods of each room and I am so on board with the pink.

[@alexb4522]

I want everything omygod. So creative and eclectic and just vibrant!!! Best way to live life

[@no.1fuzzwaldfan727]

Literal dream apartment. I love everything about this. Hopefully I'll one day be able to do similar crazy things to a place of my own.

[@OMGIGILY]

This actually deeply deeply motivated me to decorate my space very happily and to make the art that will make my home a happy happy beautiful place! This man changed my life i think

[@PJStrawberry]

As an artist I love this so much! Thank you for showing this apartment its refreshing to see such individuality in a space! love it! Really inspirational to me x

[@starveartist]

One of the best home tours ever!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ninamelsted8702]

A modern day Hieronymus Bosch. An apartment of earthly delights. Not everyone's cup of tea obviously, but it's his and it should be respected and admired. If you don't like it, move on and be kind.

[@angiebelle9440]

Unrelated to his home, but Wendy is so beautiful and holds herself so well!

[@Lisa_Evers]

What a spectacular apartment! I could spend hours just looking in all the nooks and crannies, and making all kinds of discoveries!

[@sherrystone3307]

I love how this guy just let his imagination run wild and said screw convention !!

[@Nasrah_Omar]

Yesss! I'm living for this!! Such a delight. I'm so sick of the proliferation of the minimal home decor aesthetic with marble, concrete and rose gold accents.

[@SKCothrenArt]

Me too! Beige living depresses me.

[@advocacynaccountablity]

I worked with Doug's brother Gene for some time years ago, and loved his sense of color and pattern. Doug's furniture pieces were always so fun! Love to see he's still at it!!

[@uschilou]

WOW! So many inspirations in this one! Art over a mirror?? Dividing a small space but it creates more? Plus, unbounded creativity and color!! So amazing. Thank you!!

[@rebecca_r]

There's nothing like coming home after a hard day's work to relax sitting bolt upright on a hard vinyl chair.

[@rmonson5002]

hahaha!

[@AlyyGold]

I absolutely love these fun colourful homes!! I can't wait to have my own place!!

[@TheMichelex20]

Gosh I am so jealous of such artistic talent and imagination. Just blown away by his art.

[@goldenglove4663]

makes me happy I love it.

[@linnaamanda8685]

So mesmerizing😍 Living inside an art gallery wow💕

[@KateCarew]

Wow, SWOON, that was such a sweet little trip of whimsy, not even gonna bother reading the criticisms. Magical home and wouldn’t we all be so lucky to have such a strong and unique vision?! Imagine a world where everyone has a distinct perspective and the ability to execute it? If only we could all be so actualized! So it’s not your cup of tea? Cool, don’t live there, don’t emulate it, but to dismiss the wonder of it all is a tragedy of blindness. Edit, because I’m human I read the critiques, and you know what they say about opinions and assholes? Well, that!! But really, I get why someone wouldn’t choose to live there but it tickled every fancy I knew I had and some I was unaware of! The white lucite wall tiles, the aqua and pink painting, the RUG, the blue mirrored surfaces, and the TEXTURES!! I’m done being in my greige era, in my twenties I was all color all the time then MY THIRTIES had me thinking ‘neutral! safe! pleasant! everything matches! practical!’ Well, I’m About to be 41 and I think this new house is going to be a rewashing of color and outsider art FUN! I feel like my soul just drank and like an amnesiac returning to their persona I realize what I’ve been missing. This video may prove to be a pivotal moment. Such gratitude!! I had no idea, this is wonderful and he is a gift and y’all are a gift and for whatever reason THIS is what the doctor ordered 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@Plethorality]

kate carew good for you!!! go for it! : )

[@SKCothrenArt]

Yes!!! Well said. How goes the dream of creating your own version?

[@KateCarew]

@@SKCothrenArt I’m living in a circus of color!! The house is walls of windows awash with light! I went HAM with color and we are currently adding on an addition with a “great room” basement storage area and YIKES indoor pool with greenhouse, the plants are doing the heavy lifting decor wise out there and it’s shaping up into a bit of an anthropology type space but I’m certain my color habits are going to start creeping in. The blank slate starts out “serene, neutral, rustic with all types of natural elements” but my penchant for garish and dare I say tacky tchotchkes is going to infiltrate. 😂 Today I hung a series of blown glass fried eggs on the wall in the new powder room and thought “here we go! Let the games begin!” Literally looking at these dryer lint dolls I made and figuring out how to arrange them on the shelf. Dryer lint that’s been color coordinated. I’d dye muslins for other fabric projects and I started gathering the dryer lint when it would be vibrantly colored and due to a bit (understatement) of an OCD I ended up with about 100 gallon ziplocks of dryer lint, so I began the process of trying to felt it, used starch and threads, legumes, feathers...you know just nature junk and have a little army of vividly colored dolls. They’re tacky, they’re cheap, they’re made of literal trash but that’s kind of my aesthetic. A chewing gum sculpture adorns my mantle that’s got a framed Hermès scarf over it. High low right?? In my twenties I was very VERY type A, acquired a lot of heavy antiques and created this beautiful home, colorful yes, but much more subdued, autumnal colors, reds, umbers, sage...a navy room, a pink bath and lavender master (very mellow though) left that partnership and segued into my thirties and placed bigger importance on comfort and neutrality which defied my nature. It was BLAH, working at hospice just wanted to come home and have it be clean...easy...manageable. Forties hit and the stifled spirit shit is REAL. Past few years have been a total relinquishment to truest nature and my partner thankfully has no opinions about decor and likes whatever I do. He bought me the fried eggs, and has zero expectations beyond “be happy”. Let me clarify too, the addition was possible because we are related to a contractor and did much of it ourselves...we also paid nothing for the house...a pittance so I want to make sure I don’t read as wealthy because we aren’t! I’m a nurse and my partner is an electrician. Very middle class. The Hermès was a gift to myself for getting the dream house, it’s definitely not for wearing, it’s a display piece and I bought it for the new price not collectors. $300-$400?!? This link shows you a similar version, mine has more colors and is one of the first pressings, anyhow, it set the tone for my decor and the house in general 😂 this was my most expensive purchase decor wise ever and truly what fueled the madness. www.ebay.com/itm/Hermes-Silk-100-Scarf-Animapolis-Multicolor-With-Box-72570X-B-Second-Ha-No-92423-/353340134883?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292

[@SKCothrenArt]

@@KateCarew OMG can I relate to ALL of those transitions in life and decor! In my 40s too and it's so liberating ;). I love that you're living the dream and the scarf is a fantastic inspiration. My art has always been my saving grace - a space where I have expressed every last emotion in color, layers of textures and shapes. Now it's extending into sculpture-paintings on boxes that are "design sets" for buildings, rooms, walls, furnishings, etc. Here's an example from the Walls I Want To See In the World. twitter.com/SK_Experience/status/1352707566099292160?s=19 I think the lint art idea sounds intriguing! Collecting (um...hoarding) boxes myself these days...Matt (partner of 6 years) said yesterday, "It's sad to think of all of those cereal boxes we've wasted!" 😄🤣

[@KateCarew]

@@SKCothrenArt funny how you also “collect” I’ll admit it, I’m a hoarder The house wasn’t too small, and I’m not willing to give things up! And when you start making art with cast offs it piles up FAST. The home has no basement, but we added one under the addition and I figured workout equipment, boxes and work space, a his and hers...well mine is just FULL of boxes of god only knows what...packing materials! I know a woman, she’s an outsider artist, 95, she grew up in the Great Depression in rural West Virginia...daughter of immigrants a very tough live. Daddy was killed in the coal mines and mom who spoke no English gave birth to the 10th child after he passed...well, she has been inspiring me for decades. Gum wrappers, pistachio shells...all these things that I felt an affinity for but couldn’t justify keeping? Yeah, she urged me on and taught me to look at things with fresh eyes. She uses packing materials like someone would use silk or bronze. The most humble things become beauty in her hands. We were trying to get her set up with a curator and exhibit because she’s totally unknown and my friend who worked at the MoMa passed photos along etc and her family balked because she’s got dementia. Sucks, I think the way she prizes the cast offs is so valuable for everyone. Make art more democratic and accessible. I love your colors, thank you much for sharing, and I’m currently backing out of a Twitter dispute with someone from Poland who clearly doesn’t like Jews and as a Jew I opened my dumb Jew face so don’t judge my Twitter on those most recent tweets 😅😂🥺😳 I can be more fun than THAT.

[@MrTyneduncan]

What a fabulous place 👏🙏👌

[@Bijouxgum]

Superbe et original. De l'art, de la personnalité, de l'audace. Bravo au créateur. Ça fait plaisir.

[@Claudy3156]

It’s PeeWees playhouse❤️

[@yashny]

This is so creative and cool. I think I will go to check it out even if there are tickets for entry

[@morkygorky]

One thing is for sure: His husband loves him unconditionally :-D

[@trauusa]

WOW! Kudos to Doug & Husband!

[@grantipanties]

Wow! How amazing it must be to just walk around here day to day, doing typical things but in this space.. The blue room is such a magical hideaway.. Def loved the pairing of old master art work with contemporary elements.

[@jotaech]

I love the contrast between the dull hallway and the interior. You would never guess whats behind that door!

[@zareinakhan2342]

I love it!!!! Mosaic on wall and painting my fav colors aqua blue pink so bright and joyous!!!

[@faithnelson2013]

wow! i wished all we humans decorated with such abandon. i loved the library especially well................ edited to add...we all get to live in the homes that most please US. when you're invited into someones home, the owner is saying ''look! this is me/my art.'' .....most people just copy whatever the current trend is, which is like talking to a blank wall. boring.

[@SKCothrenArt]

Agreed!! All this beigey boringness out there. Let's rebel!

[@softpretzelclub]

that library is the most beautiful space I've ever seen

[@milootje007]

Love everything about this, you keep doing you Doug!

[@47babyblues]

I like wild but this is craaaaaazy.

[@annacoribioanna]

i love places that look unique, his is a world of its own.... it's also happy

[@bobird6099]

Not to my style, however kudos to this guy for expressing his creativity and refusing to compromise or follow the crowd. 👍🏾

[@JBO2493]

I hate it but LOVE the pink and blue. Use of a partition is also super cozy and creative.

[@TheLastProzacNation]

The blue room is amazing!!!!!

[@evaspook1252]

I LOVE his apartment. So cool😍😍😍

[@babaholovanka]

Everything’s so wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey 😀

[@spamuse007]

I loved that...and Wendy Goodman's final commentary on Doug's work.

[@user-pw2dq4lf2p]

Hello, I just found New York Magazine and subscribed, but I am finding the background music to be really annoying and it interferes with the enjoyment of listening to the host and guests. Is there any way to eliminate the music or turn it down when you are making future vids? I am sure many of your subscribers would agree.

[@cr0wsnest]

I like that the people in these spots are older because it takes a lot of time to get all these things planned and finished and really to know what you love

[@Person-mh6xq]

Well, not all 20 or even 30-somethings own their own apartment or can take the plunge and risk to actually restructure it if they rent. That's really why they are "older."

[@beerzilli]

Please let us know what materials he used for the wall as well as the paints/glaze he used for it and the abstract art panels on the walls. I love the ethereal and transparent qualities of the paint as well as the finished resin kind of look of the wall material/finishing. Please elaborate!!!

[@Hernameispamela]

This channel is so interesting because of this! Like, where do you find these people? It’s a Fascinating to watch!

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

We are many. We stick to our own.

[@Plethorality]

I loved his approach. such joy and play! he makes me think differently. what a gift!

[@beatricepelupessy9543]

I love how every home reflects their owner's personality.

[@MaryamAli-vd1xv]

Love his apartment so much

[@gabriellagaraffa892]

I love this. I especially enjoy the colored portals. The whole thing looks like a space age Barbie house.

[@yashny]

Omg can I live in this place?? Looks like a fantasy home it looks so unique and bubbly

[@washingtonquintuna7619]

Love ❤️ ❤️ the color and the music

[@thewallflower8511]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCHH. 😭 if i end up being an old lady without husband and kid Im gonna design my house like this 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

[@cathykristensen4440]

Crazy and over the top, I LOVE IT!!

[@creepingstarfish]

I'm in love. I wish i could have watched the process!

[@kim-moonwhisper135]

My preschoolers that I work with would love this space.

[@midnightfox653]

He looks like he is having fun with creating his space!

[@smileawhilefinds8251]

So creative, I need this kind of inspiration in my life, thank you

[@ashlynnconner3387]

Kids would love this place

[@missjohnnyhayes]

The music is perfect for this!

[@jose-luisolivares6862]

that looks like so much fun! Love the walls and mirrored surfaces!

[@nikop3571]

Wow, this guy is so creative. It's really mind blowing. SO, so cool

[@Fellowtellurian]

I love this. I have no idea what the resale value would be when he leaves, but I still love it and don't care.

[@willg8637]

Love the ott design of small space. Hate boring cream or white interiors. Personally the main living room area doesnt work for me, but love the blue sub part of the room

[@weirdxwonderful]

Omg such a creative cuckoo confusing space. A literal translation of putting yourself out there. I love it

[@thecitizenjoan]

Looks like a set of Yo Gabba Gabba. That’s not shade, my dream is to live on a Yo Gabba Gabba set

[@DM-ol9ne]

10 out of 10 for something completely different. Maybe the pink meringue stuff is going too far, but the rest is amazing.

[@nps3735]

That's a gorgeous residence Well done you.

[@jeanniethompson561]

Deep space is…pink? LOVE THIS SPACE!

[@Wisdomseeker5]

Amazing!! It's a lot of work 😍😍

[@priscillawagner8520]

Way to be who you are! 🌼♥️

[@lorenzo8495]

WFT man?? This is insane! I wanna meet him!

[@rohinipanakal]

Wow... my family would sooo love this space! My husband the “gray prison”, me the library, and my 3 year old the whole house! Such fun!

[@Meewy]

Oh my god. I need to know more about how that wall and the baby pink cabinet are made, liking them a lot! Love the otherworldly/surreal feel in this tho I short of disapprove the painting & mirror thing in the bedroom. Something that clean/hotel looking with that much of chaotic looking structure right next to it doesn't work for me tho I think with just the right blend it could be a marvelous combo.

[@Sara-ti7he]

I LOVE it!!!!! xoxo

[@charleneo1934]

I know it’s called the cut so the vids are short but I really wish they were longer!!!

[@sylvbell1460]

whimsical asf!! inspired over here

[@trueseattleite6958]

Do they have kids? Kids would love that place! He would be such a fun dad!

[@hannahp4376]

I love his style!!!!!!

[@artisthusnatalal3099]

*Makes me feel I wanna go back to kindergarten!* 😉

[@kendrarecinos566]

So innovative! I love this.

[@Evolution-ld2he]

Fun to look at