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.
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.
"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.
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