参观费城公寓厨房最杰出的更新

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Eddie Russell and Zoë Rayn in their Philadelphia apartment. “I was hell-bent on doing something wacky in the kitchen,” says Zoë Rayn of the most noticeable upgrade to her Philadelphia apartment. Earlier this year, after moving into a 1920s building in the city’s Queen Village neighborhood, the founder of Caldera Magazine knew that the heavy cabinetry had to go. “They weren't offensive on the eyes by any means, but they made the kitchen look really dark and busy,” she adds. With the help of her boyfriend Eddie Russell, Zoë swapped the uninspired storage with cleaner open shelves, and striped the walls white and sky blue. And by painting the stripes freehand, the couple ensured that the kitchen’s new backdrop would feel tactile and unique, not like wallpaper.

Zoë and Eddie painted the bold stripes in the kitchen freehand so they didn’t look too perfect. The blue hue is Open Seas by Sherwin-Williams. This spirit of handmade, personal beauty is imbued in every corner of Zoë and Eddie’s home, which they share with their cat Karen. The warm and eclectic space is minimally furnished with midcentury vintage finds and art pieces, which play well with the building’s architectural details and natural light.

The centerpiece of the living room is a resin-esque coffee table, which Zoë purchased from The Modern Republic via Instagram. The couple was drawn to the one-bedroom apartment for its character and older details. Rather than strip the space clean, they embraced the old doorknobs and French doors but punched it up by painting the walls stark white and adding modern furniture.

The dining nook was cobbled together from a tulip table and two sets of thrifted seats: blond wood wishbone chairs and metal chairs from Tavatine.

"This [midcentury credenza] was actually the first piece of furniture we ever bought together,” notes Zoë. Hanging above is an Anne Carlisle print from the ’80s that Eddie’s dad gifted him. In the living room, a white IKEA sofa joins a midcentury credenza and vintage coffee table. The low shelving—which spans the length of the room—was whipped up by Eddie, who went the custom route to get something that fit the space perfectly for books and framed art. And their “bar-closet-bookshelf situation,” as Zoë calls it, rounds out the space: a doorless closet skillfully converted into an at-home bar.

Karen the cat enjoys her food in the makeshift bar area, which Zoë and Eddie crafted from an unused closet. One of Zoë’s dream pieces was the curved, resin-esque coffee table at the heart of the living room, which she snagged from The Modern Republic, a local vintage furniture purveyor. “When he posted about the table on Instagram, I immediately said, ‘We have to go right now. Even though it is the middle of the work day, I don’t care,’” Zoë says. Eddie is partial to their tulip dining table, which he picked up in their former home base of Chicago. Everything in this corner was thrifted, from the wishbone chairs to the vintage metal chairs from Tavatine, a home goods shop in Philadelphia.

“I am usually anti-curtain," says Zoë of the sheer panels hanging in the bedroom. "This is Eddie’s doing, and it's good on him because they do add a good look to the space.” An IKEA pendant floats above a bed frame from Urban Outfitters. The bedroom is a serene space away from it all. A woven Ikea pendant illuminates a low-lying Urban Outfitters bed frame with a wicker headboard and a vintage dresser. Gauzy curtains augment the room’s natural light. Zoë, who is normally not a fan of curtains, acquiesced to Eddie’s request that they dress the windows—if only because the bedroom looks directly into a restaurant. “I usually feel like they just age a space in a weird way,” she admits, though she likes the transparent sheers.

A set of giant dice from local shop Jinxed add whimsy to the stairwell landing.

Zoë and Eddie hang this Supreme x Kermit print in each apartment bathroom they’ve shared. Brilliantly, the bathroom itself is a conversation piece. Though typically the most neglected space in an older apartment, Zoë and Eddie hung the space with art of a certain popular genre. “This is our hypebeast bathroom,” Zoë says with a laugh, nodding to the Supreme x Kermit print aside the medicine cabinet. (One also shouldn’t miss the KAWS statuette behind the curtain.) “I don’t want to get dragged on the internet for saying this, but I’m really not into the hypebeast stuff. Eddie had this when we started dating a few years ago, so now we just put it in our bathroom at every apartment. It's kind of funny.”

Zoë and Eddie lounge in their living room. Along one wall is a record player and a chrome lamp that Eddie found on the street and had rewired. “It’s perfect and works perfectly,” says Zoë. 材料说明： Open Seas paint by Sherwin-Williams, sherwin-williams.com Söderham sofa by IKEA, $599, ikea.com Wishbone chair by Hans Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn, $765, dwr.com Sheer Belgian Linen Flax curtains by West Elm, $79, westelm.com Akari 37D by Isamu Noguchi, $225, shop.noguchi.org