While house-stalking online (“open house”-ing without the “Sunday” or the drive.) I come across pictures of homes and wish I knew the owners! Some are the picture of my perfection. Farm house with wrap around porches and chickens in the yard. Who lives like this I often wonder? I want to be friends with them! Or I see the decorating in people homes and know we’d get along? Am I the only one? Hahaha probably…..
Which brings me to the following pictures. I am intrigued! Who lives here, what are they like, why are we not friends and were they born this cool…? haha
This is a home for sale in New York for $1,750,000
(How bout we all pitch in and have a funky yearly meeting place?!)
This home is called the ‘Steampunk Apartment’. You enter through a submarine style door with a working porthole and keypad entry! Amazing!!
I am a closet steampunk fanatic and would wear the garb if I knew I wouldn’t look like such a poser! You can’t go from ‘me’ to steampunk and not….thus steampunk girl on the ‘inside’ only.
McDonalds theme song comes to mind as I look at this apt. “I’m lovin it!”
I’ve copy and pasted an article from Zillow.com explaining the apartment in detail:
Cogs, sprockets and gears line the ceiling and the walls.
A giant zeppelin light fixture hangs from the ceiling.
It is a fantastic mix of steampunk and modern, said listing agent
Parul Brahmbhatt, who added that for all the apartment’s whimsy, the space is completely comfortable.
“Once you’re in the space, it doesn’t feel cluttered,” explained Brahmbhatt. “It may seem like a museum, but it’s a museum you can live in.”
One of the more spectacular elements of the
Flatiron apartment for sale is the 32-foot-long dirigible light fixture that hangs from the ceiling in the middle of the apartment. It’s computer programmed, allowing a light display to flash different colors and patterns with the flip of a switch.
Some of the cogs and pipes are antiques. A few of the ropes and pulleys work. In fact, one rope releases a Murphy bed, while others open and close the bathroom and shower doors. Many of the items in the house have been assembled from antique or abandoned items.
“(The owner) literally found the stuff all over the place and put it together piece-by-piece,” said Brahmbhatt. She likens the features to many of the things seen on TV’s “American Pickers.”
One bathroom has a vanity constructed from an oil drum. The bedroom has the feel of being inside a tattered dirigible.
The kitchen is a carefully planned space with plenty of counters and high-end appliances that are juxtaposed against the antique tools used as drawer and cabinet pulls.
“The amazing part of the apartment is the attention to detail and quality. He has a way of mixing the old and the new,” said Brahmbhatt. “He’s spared no expense in making it livable.”
With 1,800 square feet of living space and a large attached patio, Brahmbhatt says the apartment is spacious and perfect for entertaining.
While some of the items will be moved for whoever buys the property, the owner wants to keep the aesthetics of the place as it is, says Brahmbhatt. For the right buyer, portions of the collections of antique fans, cast iron bed warmers and typewriters could be included in the sale.
Although part of a larger co-op, the apartment is only one of two in the building. That makes it somewhat unique, plus it is located in the Flatiron District, where redevelopment has been spurred up through Chelsea.
