Interior: Quiet Corners, Big Energy
The client was a single dad from the city who had just settled into the suburbs with his daughter. He told me he was used to the concrete jungle—clean lines, steel and glass, always moving. But now, life had shifted. He said it plain and clear: something quieter and softer was where his little girl was meant to grow.
I was brought in to help carve out a workspace just for him—one corner of the master bedroom, tucked up against a floor-to-ceiling window. It wasn’t much to work with, but the bones were good. That window had heavy black frames, and when he told me how much he missed the industrial energy of city architecture, I knew we had a head start.
The wall behind his desk got a coat of deep gray concrete—simple, grounding, a quiet nod to the skyscrapers he left behind. But then, the magic: a single burst of lime green in the shape of a painted half-circle, rising out of the corner where the concrete wall met the window. Lime was his favorite color, though he admitted he’d never figured out how to use it without things feeling cartoonish. We fixed that.
The desk itself was wood and black metal, industrial and practical. A wide shelf overhead gave him room to set little bits of his personality in place—photo frames, his Yankees baseball, a beanie baby pigeon (which made us both laugh), and a small potted plant to round it out. A modern floor lamp stood just beside the setup—three slender black and gold tripod legs holding up a soft ivory shade. The chair was black, comfortable, made for focus and long hours.
I made sure he had space for all three monitors, his mic and pop filter on a swing arm, and a little room to breathe in between meetings and gaming sessions. And then, to pull it all together: a thick, matte black metal sign that simply read “#idk” hung above it all—because he said he never really knows what he’s doing, but he shows up and tries every single day.
And I think that’s exactly the kind of energy that turns a corner of a bedroom into a space that matters.
