Inside Vanessa Carlton’s Stylish SoHo Loft In A Converted Factory | Open Door

[Music] well what a surprise hi a.d welcome to new york the best city in the world this loft used to be a mercantile factory it's uh technically part of the soho cast iron district so we have like this is all brick wood and all these amazing columns that are throughout the house i am sitting on my favorite couch of all time it's very important to have as deep a couch as possible if you have the room i have to tell you that these two plants though are very special to me they are the first two plants i ever owned they were like 12 years old this is a pierre garden coffee table but it all collapsed and i just don't really know how to get it fixed so when in doubt just stick a plant in something and it will just look good and i got these little ornaments on etsy and then i stuck airplanes in them i think this is such a great trick to just make something feel organic and look pretty the other thing that is so unique about this space and being in new york city is um the the amount of light basically i have a wall of windows which is incredible when i get to look at the scaffolding it was just so new york it's really just important to have as many lounging places as possible so i really just call this my sanctuary i'd like to talk to you about this very green army green desk and chair i found this at paula rubinstein she's an amazing curator of things like this that are totally utilitarian i i feel like she told me it was like it was like in a hangar which is like you know something happening with planes or having to do with the army i don't know that's what i got i always want to find something to repurpose i want to find a company that is like aware of their imprint on the planet buy something that you feel good about that's not making the world worse but keeping this planet alive like these shelves this was one piece of wood from some old building down here and it was like in the alley and then we just cut it and turn it into shelves i prefer to listen to music on vinyl i think it sounds the best i'm such a ludi if it's a record that i really love i was really excited for the release i always want to get it on vinyl this is another piano surprise it's like i call these like granny panels or parlor pianos it was like in the basement of this piano shop in the 50s and it was like 1200 or something and it's like one of my most favorite pianos this is like a tree having sunday supper and on a table like this is so amazing it's just filled with memories like it's not precious it's just something you use all the time it's organic to your life and then i found these these chairs on etsy they're like 500 bucks for the entire set this is sharp i don't know if you can tell that these are uneven windows they were cut into the wall like everyone in the building next door to they do their laundry on the roof and they hang their their clothes and i don't know i just it's again one of those things about new york city that i just love and i'm i wave and notice i don't have curtains up there it's just you know we're all in everyone's business around here this book was written by rashawn bloomberg and michael solomon my managers and they're so smart and i'm so shocked to find this book here the game changer i'm actually in that book if you would like to check it out this is a real ledger book from 1918 the paper is amazing i love the fonts so this summer i got a point and click which i used to have and do all the time but since i have my iphone camera i don't do it but i'm back and so i'm back to film and it's really so beautiful to like you know take a few photos of the same thing create a little series put it on the wall and that will be artwork oh and these lights i found in nashville at the preservation station they're stage lights i think they were on the side of a um a theater spaces for me they must have juxtaposition so it's very light on organic over here and then we're coming into a corner that gets dark and i think when you come off the elevator into the space i didn't want a big bright white kitchen i want something that's rich and dark and sort of like melts away it all flows i love dark colors i love metals and rich dark paint because i feel like if it's a room that gets light it just adds depth this is basically purchased from the bowery it's like restaurant kitchenware it's like totally timeless it does not get old oh i have another little tidbit so no matter where i am whether it's in a rental i can't do this at like hotels of course but like i always change the knobs on the cabinets anyone can do that i did that when i was in my rental on hell's kitchen when i was like 19. [Music] so i finally was able to work with a designer brilliant artist named sarah sherman samuel and she restored both of the bathrooms in this loft and something that we really wanted to do was beautiful mosaic tile that you would find around the city at the turn of the century so we did some incredible tile work but it's all muted and like natural i love again the way that she melds textures and materials so we have this wood this vanity that's floating i love this thing i just it's so satisfying to just do a little boop boop and then you have everything else is metal and cast iron just the balance oh but this is she found this i think i don't know where she found it some vintage shop this is the most important thing okay so let's say you're in a bath you gotta dim it light a candle boom okay it's all about the dimmer [Music] this is a bedroom with a lot of light i have one thing that i really want to say about this room but it may make me cry this looks so random and whatever but my dog victor who is like my captain of life long-haired doxie that he just passed and we keep it open i had a big pillow in here and this is where he slept every night it actually still smells i miss him one of my most favorite details about this space um is the the classic brick design over these windows and these gorgeous really thick pieces of wood at the top and the bottom so much about what makes this space feel majestic and calming at the same time is the height of the ceilings and these huge windows i mean the classic new york city it's just an absolute dream and there's these amazing beams um it actually runs throughout the space it says trenton new jersey on it so this is the main bedroom one of my most favorite things about this bedroom is that i painted the windows black i didn't want to change the doors and i literally painted the glass black i love dark ceilings too because it it has this illusion of just like heightening the ceiling this was my daughter's diaper changing table i bought it because it was the perfect size for diaper changing and i just put a great pillow on it and it was like still matched everything else in the room again i don't feel like you have to buy a lot of new items i i love repurposing old things there used to be windows here obviously they filled them in it still has that beautiful design above the windows which i'm going to show you in the main bathroom that goes with this room it kind of mimics that in the wall i have no idea what that thing is zero idea i don't really want to touch it this i i bought from my my hometown um in milford pennsylvania shout out antique store and i turn it into a closet what i want in my bedroom is to just feel like i'm in a like beautiful cave i want a lot of dark carved stuff and then i you know we have these beautiful windows with all the light pouring in on the darkness so i think i found these at paul rubinstein's too there are a bunch of stamps i just need like a ink pad to make it work but again they're here because of just i love the texture i just love all the bumps and i love how the light hits i could just stare at it it's just very hypnotic this is my dream bathroom i can't believe this is a bathroom in your city this is another sarah sherman samuel design and um again we wanted to do the old old-school tile i love the harlequin this was this really beautiful tile that really looked like brick i really loved these gorgeous apparatus concepts it looks like hippie jewelry it's like it's all about the dimmer okay the most important thing i think in every bathroom no matter what no matter where you are no matter what's in the bathroom period the me i think it always has to be a medicine cabinet because when you have these beautiful bathrooms and then you you're there one day and like it's just all filled with crap all on the table top this is a beautiful handmade um vanity that sarah had made i'm sorry i don't want to get like gross or graphic here but i really think that a bidet or something like that is extremely important in a bathroom this is a luxury item if you've ever been to japan this is the resistance of this uh house you may not include this in this piece but this is a very important part of this bathroom and then we got a really good soaking tub below this gorgeous mike wilcox poster that i put in a waterproof poster frame in all the the windows in this factory they have this design above the window so she echoed that with these white brick tiles to just make this look like another window like a portal so cool a.d it was a pleasure having you but you gotta go i'm single mommy i gotta pick up my daughter great to be with you peace

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Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020