Emilie Munroe has been pitching a black-and-white graphic wallpaper for the last ten years, searching for a client daring and inspired enough to give her the go ahead to use it.
The designer has also shopped around a plan for sculptural cacti (too thorny for young families) and a Charles de Lisle chandelier (too modern for old families). These dreams have now found a home — together, actually, in the SF bachelor pad of a 29-year-old pilot.
“Some clients are more nervous and are more interested in creating things we’ve already seen before,” Munroe says. But with this bachelor, “oh my God, he chose the coolest decision over and over again.”
Those cool decisions resulted in a home adorned with a statement ceiling, a cacti wall, multiple wallpapers, mid-century modern decor, and rooms painted all the colors of the Marina bay — without everything adding up to a “quirky circus house.”
“It’s like an outfit,” Munroe says. “You wear your navy dress, but then you have your crazy chandelier earrings.”
The navy dress here is a traditional Cali condo aptly curated with white walls, dark windows, and a contemporary fireplace and kitchen to ground its more unique rooms. And, we really mean unique. The true showstopper is the bar/library/hangout spot that was once a breakfast room (but what does a single beau need with both a breakfast room and a dining room?)
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