Mrs Loebe is a 35-year-old photographer, singer, actress, vintage car enthusiasts, and table tennis player who once nymph for a photograph to an album of iron maiden, dressed, spent as a woodland three months last year on a schooner with 11 other, Food and medical aid to Haiti and drives a 1978 International Harvester Scout.
In the last two years a luxury apartment on they built a studio apartment at Villa Carlotta, a building in the Franklin Avenue in Hollywood in the late 1920s, to the employees of the Chateau of the élysée, building the street House, which now houses rented the Church of Scientology. Or so the story goes.
Edward G. Robinson and George Cukor, lived in the Villa Carlotta. Louella Parsons of her column from her apartment it wrote, and married its lobby. In addition to these stories which is Villa Carlotta for his art inflected body, its low-rent tenants (Mrs Loebe is $925, recovery utilities) and the fact that tenants can customize their rooms any way that they want.
A good thing, because when Mrs Loebe took possession, her apartment, she said: "A shambles, holes was everywhere, including the ceiling, and gross Taupe walls with Brown trim." Brown blanket. And, oh God, the bathroom! "It was all colors of the Rainbow, rust on the ground all over."
You practiced a muscular, aggressive decorate, ripping from the fittings in the bathroom, on a strangely placed window the rotting tub with drywall and even in black u-Bahn tiles tiling. She framed mirror in the a by fours of an old families and placed in a Cabinet, which had built up over the sink in the bathroom.
They built from the pantry kitchen, make the countertop from a single piece of granite found free Craigslist in the section.
The lights in the dining area are four Kliegs from the 1940s o bought for around $250, which assembled themselves and in man ' war marine spar varnish finish.
"It is a boat varnish," she said. "I was man was ' ed in all kitchen cupboards and drawers, also."
Her bed is a convertible, who made them by hand. It is half a wooden stage, used for photography and falls with a foam mattress, which they can roles if it works. (The other half of the stage, which it is used as a sofa). The silk mosquito net came from the "free" table in the lobby of the Villa Carlotta, where residents of old paperbacks and the like. (it was also their coffeepot.)
The bed curtains are made with super clamps and a length of bamboo two lengths of white dupioni silk, hung together on a frame, you car's extensible metal Poland, the suction cup on the ceiling, the.
Under her grandmother Kimball wing is a shiny tree stump found home on a golf course, pulled and covered with polyurethane.
Mrs L?be was greatest gesture with color. She has a habit of it, covering everything, said what has them (including sofas and lamps) in White exterior color, a practice, the it in the previous apartments as well as followed.
Here, they mix it a little. She painted the cabinets trim and doors with shiny black Behr porch and floor paint. Matte speed France know the floors and walls with it, an exterior color covers.
She did most of the painting is a section at a time. She were on the ceiling, and a neighbor took the work, although they let him the bar asked, is drawn as in their original - although flaking - gold and green diamond pattern.
"God bless this paint," she said. "It is magnificent, such as Louis Vuitton."
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