[Music] hi ad I'm Amanda cyford and this is my New York City apartment and I'd love to show it to you because it's very [Music] cool my designer architect is Sarah zames from General Assembly it is not the first time I've worked with her I live up State on a farm so I have all that she's done a great job with my old Stone House and what I wanted here was something that felt natural and I just feel so at peace here in the big city feeling like we're slightly home even though we're not home
home this Oak wall kind of sets us away a little bit from the kitchen and elongates the foyer and the mirror is essential because you got to check your look before you leave you know [Music] so this kitchen is open very airy very light honestly I don't know what this is but my husband wanted it never used it but looks stunning in a kitchen makes it seem like it's a gourmet kitchen is it a gourmet kitchen one day but it isn't right now because I'll tell you who hasn't cooked here yet my husband like most
New York City Apartments we have this amazing feature which we couldn't get rid of even if we wanted to and I don't know if you're interested but I can do my own wash in my apartment which is a luxury for you New Yorkers you know that that's the powder room it's tiny it's got a pocket door because that practical it was Sarah's idea I was like do we need a powder room and she said yeah we do so I'm going to no I don't have to [Music] go this is my old table for my old
apartment I will never part with it dinner time is just oil and food on the floor and messiness and and a new stain is made and a new memory is made and that's just how we have to look at [Music] things I love the curve of the wood here because it just softens everything I mean there's just hard edges everywhere all the time so I love the fact that Sarah wanted to kind of soften it up everything's a little softer in certain ways because of the curve of the windows that softens things even to the
curve of like this custom bookshelf it's so open and each shelf is very tall and it was made for this space Oh this is actually my daughter's like old work it was right when she started draing people this was years ago my daughter is actually an incredible artist it blows my mind I was never that good and this is my sister she made this in high school I've had it in my apartment since I moved downtown there is in every room I guess there's toilet art yeah it's funny I actually in my house Upstate I
have um like a wool vagina hanging custom vagina not kidding I don't know why I like to remember that we're all human and then I have all the cookbooks that I organize specific to be closer to the kitchen and then all the books that didn't fit Upstate or that I had in my old apartment I just put all here and you know I try to keep the kids off of here there's a little bit of a marker [Music] mark we really paid homage to these Arch windows I also think that old is beautiful and if
you can restore anything that's that beautiful and that iconic you should it's our responsibility and then I have my favorite piece of art ever by Mark Ryden he was inspired by something I said about me wanting him to paint me with a dead cat and he he literally painted me with a dead cat but is this Amanda really that is [Music] me we use this space wisely we use this space more than any other space because it's the TV room and I'll show you where the TV is in a minute but first another another very
essential piece is the table I had to have it because it's again it's like a circle so it's soft and my kids can actually sit around it because it's really low this couch actually I bought a little before I moved in and it was like the first L-shaped couch I've ever bought I was like is this really going to fit in this apartment and it's perfect everybody can fit and so we spent a lot of time here this rug is from my old apartment I got this at ABC Carpet it was the first rug I
ever bought from them I was very young and ties in like my past with my present as a mom this whole Space my kitchen dining room living room the fact that they're all sharing pretty much the same space makes it feel really cozy cuz it's totally different from my house Upstate but there are also so many similarities and tie-in to like the way we live up there and the way we live here we're still in nature I will say like one of my favorite things is these plugs there's so many places to plug in electricity
and they're so gorgeous it's so Chic these chairs are actually from my old apartment that Sarah reupholstered I love antiques I love mixing antiques with modern furniture I love it I think it's such a puzzle I love the fact that you can just reupholster them and make them look totally different and the bones are the same the wood is stunning and they're so old we just renew and recycle and we repurpose so these are closets coat closet this is um really cool because again small spaces and I will be honest we never close these I
only close these for you this guy essential for watching date line with your husband up your kids go to bed and then these little drawers they are the toys we don't have to see them all the time right are you with me parents another gorgeous you don't want to see that cuz I actually threw everything in there for your visit I'm going to need that later okay I'm going to close these back up and I'm going to show you how easy they are we're not going to use this part right and that's it that's my
big living space and then things get pretty narrow after this so hold on [Music] I have a hallway which is not something I've had before it's really long and finding a rug long enough was so hard but then we were able to find a a place that custom made it for just a great price I mean there's four doors in this hallway and they're all incredibly stunning like just the archway like I never had that and then all these windows I mean I can see what anybody's doing if anybody's out on the roof deck which
I share so the kids actually have this tricycle this two-seater and they're obsessed with it and I'm actually not sure that we're allowed bicycles on the roof but no one has caught us yet and they get so much energy out it's great and this is my bedroom this is the only room that has 12T ceilings and I don't know why I have my old carpet I have my dresser I have a walk-in closet I have my desk and my bed from my old apartment I have my hands from my old apartment see yeah had to
do it s's like you really want this hands and I was like I do these hands are just special I don't know where they came from I don't know if they exist anywhere else they feel like one-offs or two offs and it adds like a little bit of a A vibe to the room it's actually a really perfect place to sing in I'm only when I'm alone of course I don't know why I still am afraid to sing in front of people but there's just a lot of Reverb in this room because of the tall
ceilings you sound better with Reverb you just do but I will also show you I've never had two doors I've never had two doors so this is a secret it's a secret that's um another exit in just in case I thought that was really fun I love Secrets I brought my dog onto D Letterman I don't know why I guess because I was you know he was he's cool he's special gu and I was showing him my dog trick cuz David lman used to do like pet tricks and I showed him that he could have
a hamburger on his head without eating it and yeah I worked because he's a [Music] badass I have to show you my bathroom because it's the best bathroom I've ever experience as my own it's so crazy bright it's so beautiful the tile is the perfect color by NYC standards it's huge like really beautiful classic traditional fittings and the fact is like yes of course we don't keep this open but it's just so bright it's so bright so much control with these so pretty I love this marble we're using the same marble it's like everywhere I've
got two big medicine cabinets and these are they give the most beautiful light I love them so much it's very Zen very Zen and very light and then I have a a walk-in closet and then a giant mirror so I can make sure that I look cool now I'm going to show you my kids bedroom which is actually probably the most fun room of course it is it's for the kids first I'll show you this art that H day will be um I don't know taken down bunk beds ideal New York City living this wallpaper
I don't even know what to say it couldn't be more perfect little watercolor prints I I'm obsessed with it and it really gives pops of color this light was in my closet in my last apartment and my daughter was so obsessed with it it's just birds so we had to do it we have my playhouse that I designed with my friends that's going to be on the market soon because I of course have another I have a business venture my girlfriends and I are very into architecture and and house designs and we wanted to create
a space for our kids to play and and explore and make their own inside but with an aesthetic outside that is pleasing calming to the parent it's a small room but we made the most of it and my daughter loves sleeping in it and someday soon my son is going to love sleeping in it too bers so this is the second bathroom the kids bathroom or my mom's bathroom because she also has a room in this place because she lives with us and she's [Music] [Music] everything so that's my home away from home thank you
for visiting I hope you come back I'll see you later a [Music]
