A Brooklyn Artist Infuses Her 1,000-Square-Foot Apartment With Her Signature "Pantone-Punk" Style

Lizzy Plapinger, the solo indie musician who performs as LPX and cofounder of record label Neon Gold, punches up her railroad-style rental with funky secondhand steals and hand-painted walls and furniture.

Mar 15, 2023 - 18:17

A Brooklyn Artist Infuses Her 1,000-Square-Foot Apartment With Her Signature "Pantone-Punk" Style

Lizzy Plapinger, the solo indie musician who performs as LPX and cofounder of record label Neon Gold, punches up her railroad-style rental with funky secondhand steals and hand-painted walls and furniture.

For artist Lizzy Plapinger, the apartment was kismet. She’d almost given up hope of finding a suitable spot for her needs and aesthetic—a within-budget space big enough to create her work in and enough of a blank canvas to put her stamp on the interior (plus an amenable landlord). But the way she got her floor-through, 1,000-square-foot railroad-style rental was the stuff of New York legend.

The bright-blue exterior of Brooklyn artist Lizzy Plapinger’s apartment is the icing on the confetti cake that is her home. Formerly of the band MS MR, the solo indie musician, who performs as LPX, and cofounder of record label Neon Gold, repaints used furniture, such as the decorative piece in her kitchen, in her

By coincidence, the stairs leading up to Lizzy’s apartment were already painted in bright colors, but they serve as an excellent lead-in to the magic that lies beyond.

"I got a text out of the blue from my friend Kelsey, and she sends me a picture of the outside of this house," says Lizzy. The photo showed a townhome on a block of otherwise unassuming row houses that stood out for its electric-blue facade with yellow-painted window trims and blocky, hand-painted sign reading, SKEWVILLE. "I go to Instagram because I’m curious," Lizzy says. "It’s a Tuesday. [The owner] is showing it Saturday. I message him immediately.