Name: Gerrit

Where do you live?: Visalia, CA

What do you do?: I’m a police officer

DP purchases: Inhabit Wall Flats

Favorite DP product: Inhabit Wall Flats

How would you describe your design style? Modern/minimalist

Any design pet peeves? Tan colored walls

Favorite design ideas? What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? Less is more, just because there’s an open space (wall or floor) doesn’t mean it HAS to be filled

What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? As iron sharpens iron, so shall one man sharpen another   Proverbs 27: 17

Favorite indulgence? Pizza and ice cream

Movies you can watch over and over: Lord of the rings trilogy, Godfather, Zoolander, Wedding Crashers

What is a “dream day” like for you? Morning workout, lunch with my wife and daughter, afternoon park visit, family dinner on outside patio, movie.

Thanks, Gerrit!

I bet you are inspired. Yup, I totally called it. Here are all the Inhabit Wall Flat offerings.

Whoopsie, looks like I need to paint the side of the door black (see right side of photo above). Isn’t it funny how you don’t notice these things in person but they show up in a photo? Looks like I could have moved the toilet brush and the bathroom scale to style this a little better. Oh well, at least I remembered to put the toilet seat down!

Santa also brought me some tea towels, which I’ve decided to use as bathroom hand towels. My bathroom doesn’t have a towel bar, and I’m not crazy about them, so I used over-the-door hooks instead.

I’m not too big on too much matchy-matchy, so I’ll probably move the lacquer box to another room, but I thought I’d try out being matchy-matchy for a few weeks and see if it sticks! This box is great for stashing all of my everyday makeup in one place.

Name: Cyrus

Where do you live? San Francisco, CA

What do you do? Attorney

DP Purchase/s: Fatboy, Flensted Mobile Airplanes Mobile, Singgih Kartono Magno Wooden Radio, Jonas Damon Numbers Clock, David Weeks Hanno the Gorilla, Hybrid-Home Spaceship Print, Wallter Slat Rack, Mod Mom Furniture Owyn Toy Box.

What’s your favorite DP product and why? The Wallter Slat Rack for sure. It’s right by our front door and we hang all our coats, hats, keys, etc. on it every day. It’s generally buried with stuff so we can’t see it, but love it anyway.

How would you describe your design style? Minimalist.  Don’t have much stuff, but take a lot of time to think about each thing that comes into the house and how it fits.

Four sites/blogs you visit daily: Apartment Therapy, Boing Boing, Fast Company Design, Twitter

Tell us about your home, office, workspace, or favorite nook and cranny. We have a two-story loft in a renovated box factory from the early 1900s in the Mission.  We use as a living space, office, workspace for my wife and me.  We recently renovated to put a home office + nursery in.  Added the Fatboy so I could have a meditation corner in our bedroom that doubles as a place to play with our son.

What’s your favorite color or material? Orange.  As you can see from the giant orange fatboy.

Any favorite design ideas? Love seeing new ideas for everyday things.

Favorite member of the A-Team: The Face.

What is a “dream day” like for you? Sleep, nothing to do, hanging out with family.

Anything else we should know about you? I’m Design Public’s attorney, so I may be biased towards feeling everyone should buy only DP stuff.

Thanks, Cyrus!

Skip made homemade waffles for breakfast. He does not mess around!

Meet Skip Flynn. Modern design fan, collector of uniquely shaped baking pans (He has a honeycomb one), Triumph Motorcycle enthusiast and Design Public customer.

He’s also one of my best friends so on a recent visit to Boston I ended up staying at Skip’s new loft in historic Quincy Massachusetts. Enjoy the pictures.

Skip's loft in Quincy Massachusetts

Erich Ginder Antlers & Harry Allen Grans Candlesticks

Fauna Pillow (Plaid on the back -- rad!)

Homemade waffle on Jason Miller Seconds dinnerware

The waffle was YUM!

Name: Mindy

Where do you live? Pennsylvania [right outside Philly]

What do you do? Art Psychotherapist & Licensed Professional Counselor

What’s your favorite DP product and why? Fatboy Headdemock Hammock — This is by far, the most awesome hammock that I’ve ever “met.” It’s large enough for me & my husband [and our dog]

How would you describe your design style? Modern-eclectic, colorful, art”full.”

What was the best advice anyone ever gave you? “stop, breathe, think”….very helpful most days!

If you were a crayon, what color would you be? If I were a crayon, I’d love to be cerulean…there’s nothing like it! It’s a vibrant, rich, inviting blue that’s not too green or grey…hooray!

Do you collect anything? Tell us of your treasures… I collect art materials and especially crayons…my “coolest ones” the guitar crayons my daughter bought for me 10 years ago from the rock n’ roll hall of fame! Believe it or not, I’ve never used them. They are way too amazing! I’d like to find some “dog crayons” [crayons shaped like real dogs] — that would be super cool! I’m also beginning to collect tribal paraphernalia, since I started tribal dancing a few years ago. That was an effort to research body image issues, which is part of my clinical practice interest, but I fell in love with doing it myself — so I continued.

Movies you can watch over and over: Top Gun…my husband and I love watching that movie together! I also love The Incredible Mr. Limpett with Don Knotts [an oldie but goodie]

What is a “dream day” like for you? Eyes open to the warm sun streaming through the bedroom window…my dog lovingly asking me (with his eyes) to take a walk…sweat pants over pj’s and off we go…grind/brew fresh coffee and sit on the deck while I drink a cup or two, tend to my plants…cook one or two “spur of the moment made up recipes”, shower, comfortable clothes, check email, call husband/daughter to say good morning [they are both at work during my "dream day"], ride my bike, read while relaxing on my FABULOUS FATBOY HAMMOCK, have dinner w/my family, go tribal belly dancing, watch something about the sea on national geographic, go to sleep w/my husband at my side & my Havanese [dog] at my feet!

Anything else we should know about you? I truly believes that art saves lives…which why I just co-authored a book titled Finding Your Voice through Creativity: The Art and Journaling Workbook for Disordered Eating (Jacobson-Levy & Foy-Tornay, 2010 Gurze Books). I also lecture on eating disorders/body image & dissociative identity disorder. I really love my work, and I am grateful that I can use art to help others heal!

Thanks, Mindy!

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