Rental Revamp: Nick Laciok’s DIY Düsseldorf Flat Is a Perpetual Work in Progress
The photographer and his partner use soothing paint colors, a medley of vintage furniture, and lots of ingenuity to reinvent their early-1900s flat.
The photographer and his partner use soothing paint colors, a medley of vintage furniture, and lots of ingenuity to reinvent their early-1900s flat.
Photographer and set stylist Nick Laciok was about six years old when he had his first creative breakthrough—involving the living room curtains and a pair of scissors. The end result, a shortened set of drapes with bows fashioned from the trimmings, felt like a "groundbreaking" new invention at the time, he recalls.
For many parents, the incident would be a punishable moment, but Nick’s mother took it as a sign that he needed an outlet. "My mom saw that she needed to give me the freedom to create things," Nick says, explaining that from then on, he was given free rein to decorate his childhood bedroom however he saw fit.
Since he couldn’t spend much money on furnishings and decor, he decided to get inventive with the materials he had on hand—a very early lesson in resourcefulness that has informed his interior fixations ever since. Many, many DIYs later, the act of creating and reimagining furnishings, and the rooms they live in, still feels second nature to Nick—which is evident as he rattles off all the upgrades he’s made to his 958-square foot, pre–World War I apartment in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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