Dibs on the special Style Magazine section in the New York Times!
Love the lime green walls in this room and the minimal art and furnishings. Fabric nonsense is to a minimum. No curtains. Mismatched fabric on the sofa. Not even a rug. Mid-century furniture.
Apt. 11d 
I like the paint and the room itself, but I’d be tempted to either put all the contents of the room out on the curb or reupholster everything. Except for the TV, the stuff looks like the personal effects of beatnik squatters.
One of the most objectionable things about the room is the use of vertical space. This is a tall room, but the midcentury furniture has a very low profile. That stuff is maximum 4-foot tall, while the room has what must be 15-foot ceilings, so the furniture looks like it is miserably clinging to the floor, while 90% of the space in the room goes unused. The room also manages somehow to look both sparse and cluttered.
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On second thought, I actually like how the colors on the sofa work with the lime green paint, but whatever they used on the ottoman brings a real road-kill vibe to this room. Remove the ottoman and streamline the messy TV corner, and everything will look 100% better.
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I agree with Amy P: the paint, windows, wood floors, fireplace, and art are terrific, but the furniture is blah. It looks uncomfortable, like porch furniture.
I have to repaint a bedroom and wonder how that lime green would look in there….
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Agree with Amy too (especially the furniture height and upholstery), but want to add: that couch is nothing you can lay on. If you have a couch, don’t you want to lounge on it? My huge Husband could barely fit a leg on that couch. (And, I DESPISE over-sized furniture.) How to strike the right balance of both function and style?
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There’s a wide angle lens on that camera, so the room is distorted. It’s probably a very narrow room, which could only handle the dimensions of a narrow mid-century sofa.
I like a lot of negative space in a room, so that’s why I liked this picture. This is also a very typical NYC decor style.
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Each one of those floor boards is a standard 3 1/4″ width.
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Ha. But I do agree w/ Laura that the room might be only 12 feet or so wide ( and that the ceilings may be higher). That makes for a cave like space to furnish. I think the porch look (colors, green walls, beautiful window) is deliberate.
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MH,
So the room is actually three feet wide? Funny, and horrifyingly plausible.
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I really do like that flooring. And the high ceilings. As I’m probably going to have to turn in the heat tonight, maybe the high ceilings aren’t practical here.
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I like the surfboard-shaped table!
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Love it – it’s very Living Etc magazine (European style). Love the mismatched and the green walls.
It’s so fresh compared to the cookie cutter Pottery Barn look.
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Also, who puts a coffee table five feet in front of the couch? And where are the reading lamps or end tables you could set things on? (I’m on my couch now and I have 15 books, 8 pens, notecards, two cups, a stapler, and the remotes all within immediate reach.)
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That TV cart is an affront to humanity. I’d also recommend the light not be set beside the window and the shelves in the corner be swapped for something smoothly mid-century.
This is the style with which I grew up. I spent a lot of time in Frank Lloyd Wright houses and love the way that style works so well in his pared-down building but I could see it working in this room, too, if someone edited out the messy whatever on the foreground ottoman and that damnable TV cart!
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Janice,
Yeah. I dare anybody who hasn’t already to click enlarge and study the TV cart corner. Going from bottom to top, there’s first the TV cart, then the TV on top of the cart, then some sort of cabinet behind the TV cart, and then a large round glass thingy on top of the cabinet. Make it stop!
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I don’t think the cart thing is so bad. It’s on wheels, so, I’d guess, it can be moved out for viewing and then put back against the wall. I’d guess it’s not always where it is right now. The shelf behind it is a normal shelf against the wall, like you’d expect. I don’t know what the thing on top of it is, but I guess it’s some sort of decorative piece. I’m not crazy about it, but I’m generally not about such things- everyone is a fan of their own, and a hater of others, in my experience. The TV thing comes from not wanting the TV to dominate or be the center of the room. That’s a completely admirable goal, but a hard one to pull off. This isn’t wonderful, but it’s better than average. The way the photo is shot makes it look worse than it really is, I’m pretty sure.
I spent a lot of time in Frank Lloyd Wright houses
What about this looks like a FLW house, Janice? I’m really curious. The only few I’ve been in have been nothing like this at all, really- for one thing, they have had very low ceilings, and didn’t have anything like this sort of wood-work near the ceiling (in part, if have low ceilings and then have that sort of woodwork, you can’t put a bookshelf against the wall.) I’m curious what aspects strike you as FLW-like.
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Matt,
I think Janice means that this sort of furniture would look good in a FLW house, not that this home is FLW-like.
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