Letting the Outside In-A Space for Creativity

Image and styling: Shannon Fricke

I love the styling of this space, recently featured on Shannon Fricke's blog. It feels organic and ethereal, and the outside-in feel is just wonderful. This space makes me pine for an artist studio of my own, something that i've been craving for quite a while. For myself, I imagine a space like this with an unfinished wood floor and big windows, luxuriously long tables for sketching and crafting, and shelf upon shelf of vintage papers, paints, pencils, and more.

As featured here, I like the idea of using a space like this to foster not only one's own creativity but also that of one's children or the larger community. This is something that I treasured as a child-in my case, an unfinished basement where my sister and I made pottery, rumbled the rock tumbler for hours on end, and had all sorts of fun adventures. The thought of developing a space like this to share with others is simply lovely, and i'm curious to know what it might look like to develop something like this in a place like DC.

See more photos of the space above at the owner's blog. She, Sonya Marish of Jatana Interiors, specializes in rare floor and wall coverings (think incredible Moroccan-influenced tiles that lend a laid back lived-in feel to a space).