°·°¯°·._.· Decorating the Apartment ·._.·°¯°·.·°

I'm going on my third year in the same apartment in Cap Hill. I feel really lucky to have found the place at all and I like my management company, neighbors and walkable historic neighborhood. Rare words online, right? I dunno, I feel like you may really attract the energy you put out, and if you're intentional with your energy and inspirations you may find that it takes time to feel out a person or space. And with space, it's taken me about two years to dial in my living area.

I have spent so much time the past two years in Denver going to various thrift stores in the city and the surrounding suburbs, any destination trip required a stop at the local Arc or Goodwill. I have really truly balled out, it's the nicest city I've ever gotten to thrift in and I lived near the Bay Area! Just so much vintage furniture from estate clear outs. This process of seeking and finding, trial and error, sifting and sorting through the mismatched masses has completely informed my taste and style of interior design and decor. I also have rented all of my adult life, so it's all about things you can set up and nail to the wall, nothing too permanent.

Moving every few years as I usually do, my idea with this new set-up was to make sure everything I have is lightweight and modular. I got really into midcentury plastic – a new material at the time that was being used in injection molding projects for really interesting, cutting-edge space-agey furniture and decor. I like finding this kind of thing on the cheap in varying conditions because I can enjoy it and not be too precious about it.

The specifics I look for: postmodern plastic-frame clocks, space age coated metal lamps, brushed-aluminum-framed artwork, Snoopy, Moomin, Miffy, '70s sketch art, vintage art books and materials, vintage novels, oversized everyday objects in varying mediums. Eldon postmodern office supplies. Italian space age anything. Alessi, Hank Lowenstein, Milo Baughman, Matisse, Picasso. Ingrid, Heller, melamine and teak and acrylic, bentwood and chrome and art glass. I just have so much fun with it and thrifting and looking things up has taught me so much about the history of art and design. Yay!

Take a look at it all, I'm not really sure what to call it. It's not an aesthetic per se, it's just me.