Your Space Reflects Who You Are.

the only things I remember from my first

home is watching Shrek in the living

room my obsession with dinosaurs and the

unexpected floods caused by the poor

drain system then I moved for the first

time my second home saw me grow and it

grew with me too up in the second floor

at the end of the hallway was my room

tall ceilings wooden floor afternoon

sunrise and the gardien view which I

would see every day for the next 18

years there was also a lot of change of

course two beds one bed the first desk

clo order one dock two more artwork

colors my room became a reflection of

myself but when I turned 21 and after 2

years of Gap year I became too

comfortable it was time for

change naively the first place I looked

into moving out to was Tokyo I soon

realized that would be impossible so I

looked closer Mexico City Cultural

historic and basically

endless that was the

place I instantly began looking at

apartment listings online with little to

no luck

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until my mom found a pretty interesting

three-bedroom apartment in the Heart of

the City on Facebook Marketplace due to

work I couldn't go see it in person my

mom did and I trusted her

taste before even realizing how big of a

change this would be I packed my life in

a truck signed the lease and moved to

the big city on my own the new place was

great four rooms old building and

stylish now I needed to make it mine and

somehow revealed the essence of the old

Studio it was time to learn a whole new

art for the art of interior

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design now I don't think it's possible

to properly design a space without

visualizing it first so I built a scale

model of my whole apartment

two of the six rooms were designated

long before I got

here the

rest were up to

me next to the kitchen and right in

front of the entrance would be the

dining space this area would be shared

with the living room somehow both spaces

would clearly need to be divided but no

need to worry about that right now to

avoid midnight Halls the bedroom would

be placed right next to the bathroom the

fifth room room would be the studio

planning editing filming everything

would be done here the final room was a

bit of a problem at first I thought of

it as a guest room but selfishness took

over it would be the lap a room for

experimentation the layout was clear the

design language wasn't feeling this

empty space felt like an enormous task

but the next step was pretty small I had

to figure out what

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design I went down a rabbit

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hole

worksh want to get

very for a while apartment tours would

fill a YouTube history interior design

books would fill my shelves I would get

saturated by hundreds of reference

images I would learn about design mov

ments and practices but that didn't help

much I soon realized I was searching in

the wrong place my house wouldn't only

be a house it would be a studio a set

and a source of

inspiration so I changed plans instead

of copying family homes I would copy

artist Studios instead of following

rules I would create my

own rule 104 ceiling lights are strictly

baned use lamps instead two the place

shall be easy to clean we have limited

cleaning personnel three the place shall

be inspiring and allow for ease of

creation and most importantly four the

play shall be designed with intention

from the couch to the artwork from the

wristwatch to the razor every element in

the space shall be carefully curated and

shall serve a purpose wait you kind of

need to use that don't you what do you

mean um the razor look at

you this is the Hands-On shaving al13 a

topof thee line aluminum safety razor

that on top of being a beautifully made

object doesn't irritate my skin and

that's a big

deal ever since I started growing facial

hair I've tried all types of razors but

they would always irritate hurt and

damage my skin not to mention the amount

of waste they generate then I got this

one a carefully researched designed and

manufactured racer created in the

handson Aerospace machine shop in Canada

and it shows ever since I started using

it sharing has become less of a routine

and more of a ritual less of an

obligation and more of an experiment

less of a pain and more of a process

full of

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beautiful functional tools and create

rituals out of them and this razor is

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better I of course started off with a

few pieces I brought from my old Studio

the bed the work desk the turntable

setup the big plant and a couple of

s a premature trip to

Ikea what set the stage for the rest of

the

apartment a chair a coffee table and a

rock that's all I got and it was enough

to define the accent color of the rest

of the space but my whole apartment

couldn't be readed so I searched for

furniture to balance things out and I I

found it contrast will become Religion

different textures shapes and colors

that's what makes a space interesting

however there still needs to be cohesion

to find The Sweet Spot between contrast

and

harmony for a while the Ikea trips would

become routine unboxing building

incorporating it was almost an

obsession fairly quickly the space

started taking shape then it began

designing

itself new areas would appear as I found

new

hobbies new collections would start as I

got new interests New pieces would

emerge as I made new

memories interior design is no different

to other art forms it's all about

self-expression and I embrac

that I focused on filling my house with

things that I L and inspire me and

somehow made them work all together it

was less of a logical and more of an

intuitive process once again my house

became a reflection of myself just by

looking at it you can get a clear sense

of who I am of what my passions

Ambitions and aspirations are and that's

more than enough for me because if you

could take a peek to the inside of my

brain this place is probably what it

would look like

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