There is something so appealing about looking into other people’s homes. How people chose to live inside four walls says significant things about their character. It’s a voyeristic pleasure that we are certainly not over. At a time when buying a home is sounding more and more like a pipe dream, renting and flatting has become our […]
Your Place | The Loft
There is something so appealing about looking into other people’s homes. How people chose to live inside four walls says significant things about their character. It’s a voyeristic pleasure that we are certainly not over.
At a time when buying a home is sounding more and more like a pipe dream, renting and flatting has become our next best option, one that most of us will probably stick with well into adulthood. But these rented homes and flats are not your scungey, rat-ridden, student-destroyed kind of houses, these places have become our homes. Replacing the inevitability of the ‘young family home’ with years of university and time-demanding careers, we’re teaming together with like-minded individuals to live through our best years with. And through this generational shift, that same energy that was used for pottering around the new home has instead manifested into a new, modern way of living – we’ve become house-proud. We own flat pets. We have flat-family dinners. We indulge in bespoke furniture instead of paying mortgages. We’re running our rented homes like we would as if they were our own.
I am very excited to launch ‘Your Place’ – a brand new project with photographer and Fuzzyvibes Project Space founder, Ophelia King. Each week Ophelia will open the doors on some of Auckland’s most interesting creatives’ homes. To start, this week Ophelia visits The Loft, home to Ashleigh – high school teacher and artist, Hannah – art school grad who works for Gow Langsford Gallery, Sophie, Raf and Steven – photographer and the guy who started Johnny Feedback, a super cute little cafe on Pitt Street.
The Loft could be described as absolute chaos, but the beautiful and functional kind of chaos; there is art everywhere, piles and piles of art works – under sheets, all stacked up on top of each other, even in the bath. The entire front of the house is bathed in a glowing yellow light for most of the day (helped by the inserts of stained glass), and it has that great thing where pretty much every room has a different carpet… Welcome to the Loft.
See the full feature at Ophelia King’s website [here]
