Look Inside My Home: A Renovated Bloomingdale Apartment With Tons of Natural Light
"I approached the renovation like acupuncture."
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"I approached the renovation like acupuncture."
Tweet Share Imani Keal has lived in her Glover Park studio apartment for two years. The 25-year-old project manager, who’s roommates with her 10-month-old Yorkie, Salazar Slytherin II (aka Sal), originally moved to Glover Park because it was close to her job in Georgetown. She’s now in a permanent work-from-home role, but she says she still loves the neighborhood thanks to local spots like Ghostline. “Also, I get to be neighbors with the VP and fellow Howard grad Kamala Harris,” she says. At the start of the pandemic, Keal’s home was white and minimalist. But she got bored and dec...
Photograph courtesy of Libby Rasmussen If you’ve grabbed a cup of coffee or a salad in, oh, the past decade, you’ve likely noticed that public spaces geared toward the professional millennial crowd tend to look exactly the same: sparse white walls, minimalist wooden furniture, perhaps some neutral-hued subway tile. The Scandinavian-chic vibe has dominated in the homes of twenty- and thirtysomethings, too—just open Instagram and count the knockoff Eames shell chairs in your feed. But after years of this pared-back aesthetic, a shift is afoot. Some in the design world are calling it “gr...