Sarah's New Apartment

My dear friend Sarah Warren (remember the posts about dream designs for her bakery) has just moved into a new apartment on 12th st. So, naturally, I've been day dreaming about how it should look and doing some drawings to bring my vision to life.

This is the entryway I envision for her, with a big welcoming picture of her dog Henry, and spots to drop her keys, boots, umbrella etc:

This is a little cocktail corner complete with bar cart for entertaining:

These are two different options for the "dining nook", in this version we see it with a round cafe table:

And here that same nook is outfitted with a china cabinet:

And last but not least a display of pictures on the wall facing her sofa:

These were such fun to do, and its even more fun to see Sarah actually using some of my ideas in her decorating!

p.s. make sure to check out Sarah's blog

Sarah's Mood

As many of you know, I've been working on some dream designs for the bakery my friend Sarah is planning to open. We've been discussing a vintage vibe, kind of Anthropologie-esque, with lots of kitchen implements repurposed as lights etc. In terms of materials we are thinking about exposed brick, lots of wood, and muted pastels- maybe lilac and mint??

This is a board of images that I've been thinking of as a jumping off point for the interior:

For Sarah's Bakery

I did a little sketch for Sarah that updates and formalizes a little more the sketches I did before on lined paper in my notebook.

Sarah's Bakery

My dear friend Sarah Warren (check out her blog here) is planning to someday open a bakery (hopefully someday soon!) so I've been drawing up some ideas for her. One idea we had, was that at her bakery while the customers wait in line they have a chance to watch the pastries being made.

Now I know that you're thinking- we've seen plenty of open kitchens before! But what you're used to seeing is the whole kitchen, complete with sweating bakers saturating the space with their stress. Instead, the peeks that you get of Sarah's kitchen will create a calmer atmosphere. There will be a number of strategic reveals built into the kitchen wall: through one small window you'll see hands kneading dough, through another you watch as hands ice a cake, but you'll never see the bodies those hands belong to:



The customer gets the best of the traditional open kitchen: the appetizing peek at what lies ahead, without the worst: the anxiety inducing scene of chaos and stress.

These sketches don't show it, but we've also talked about putting antique shutters on the windows to go with the antiquey/Anthropologie vibe.

ps. the images are scans from my notebook, so the noise in the background is my handwriting on the other side of the page showing through