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Tour an Upper West Side Home That’s Been Injected With Downtown Cool | Architectural Digest
It’s a classic New York story: A young family is moving some 80 blocks north but doesn’t want to sacrifice downtown cool for the change of address. That was the brief for Manhattan-based interior designer Neal Beckstedt, when a pair of clients called on him to decorate their new place: A 1928, three-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side with high ceilings and leafy views of Central Park. It needed to be, in Beckstedt’s words, “Young and fun and cool while still respecting uptown. Bringing the downtown element to them—that was the challenge.” Luckily, he and his clients—a real estate developer and a learning specialist—had instant chemistry: “Neal understood that…
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Decorating with yellow: warm up cool rooms with a sunny shade
Decorating with yellow brings one of the most cheerful shades of the color spectrum into your home. Space enhancing, summery and warm, it can be used to enhance space or make a room feel cozy and intimate. ‘Use paler shades, and yellow will reflect light in and around a room to make it feel bigger and brighter – the perfect choice for small spaces, narrow corridors or rooms with low ceilings where it can broaden, lengthen and add height. Use mustardy, darker yellows, and it will create a cocooning, intimate appeal,’ advises stylist and art director Sara Bird. Known for its mood-enriching properties, decorating with yellow also suits busy daytime…
