While we here at Lup HQ are confident in our good taste and eye for design and style, a couple of weeks ago, we finally had to admit that we weren't using these skills to the benefit of our office aesthetics. Since we opened our doors nearly seven years ago, our business has grown exponentially, and yet beyond asking our building super to paint our walls a lovely lavender color, we've put absolutely no thought into creating a well appointed work space. The furniture is functional at best--the folding tables we bought at Staples when we needed a couple of new "desk" areas, the shelving units that the building porters found and thought we might need, my old dining room table from that apartment I had that was big enough to hold a dining room table...you get the idea! While we use the excuse that we're too busy coming up with great opportunities for designers and offering media fantastic designs, we finally broke down and embraced the idea of re-designing our office. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step so there, we admitted it.
After making the admission, we decided to call in the big guns in the form of pint sized Randi Molofsky. A talented and accomplished writer, Randi has an enviable flare for style and a discerning eye for interior design. She helped me set up my current apartment, and her own apartment has been recognized by interior design blog Apartment Therapy for her elegant use of color. She graciously accepted the proposed task--redesign our 420 square foot office space with a very limited budget. We want it to be well-appointed, and to accommodate up to five people working at a time. Who is this Randi person, you ask, Houdini?! But with characteristic optimism and excitement about the task at hand, Randi assures us this is entirely possible.
Our first job is to clean. Our goal is to get anything unnecessary out of here, which means my Shakespeare notebooks from '99 and the handbag my mom bought me for my 30th birthday that I felt too bad to return even though I hate it are going to have to go...stay tuned!
A shot of Randi's apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Mirrors are very helpful in a living room and it makes the room look bigger and brighter…
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