It is a glorious day when one schedules a home tour followed by a cocktail at Death & Company. But it’s even more fabulous when the home tour is of the apartment of Charity James.
Charity is an accomplished voiceover artist, performer, producer (check her bio) and one funny lady. She also has quite the knack for creating a very beautiful, layered, girly space… mostly created using items found in the basement of her apartment building!
The chest was painted and new hardware applied. The mirror, as Charity aptly put it, was “freed of it’s old fashioned frame”
Funny story about the picture. If you look just under the leaves, there’s a monkey in the prop rack! Charity’s father was walking by and photographed him just hanging around* the production set.
I love the etching in the mirror.
Charity’s green entertainment cabinet wasn’t salvaged per se. She found it in one of the back hallways at Macy’s with the “oriental” furniture that no one was buying because all the shoppers at the time wanted “modern” furniture. She got the cabinets and the black chairs at half off. Lesson learned: always check the back hallways!
Charity’s apartment is a studio but she sections it off using these light and airy curtains. As delicate as they are, they still helped to differentiate the “rooms” of the space.
Charity found the steamer trunk discarded in her building basement. A STEAMER TRUNK – this is my dream! Charity mentioned that she was thinking of repurposing the trunk and though I am certainly a believer in reinventing furniture, I would not touch that steamer with a ten foot pole! The frame was a basement find as well – I’m not the only one with an appreciation for empty frames, it would seem.
LOVE the painted Spanish poem serving as a headboard.
Another basement find; repainted, aged and new hardware applied.
So lovely.
The gal herself and another basement find that has yet to find a permanent home. Though her friends questioned the appeal of this painting, Charity feels it accurately portrays her future golden years: in the garden, with the puppies, decked out in a ball gown, singing to the high heavens.
I would expect nothing less. xo Charity, thank you! Cocktails in the new year!
* Get it? I hope you appreciated that.
