Shannon Tate 1/5/20 Shannon Tate 1/5/20

Before & After - My New Studio, featured on Domino today!

I had been looking for a studio for 5 years. There’s a feeling when you find “the one” and none of them were it. Dropped ceilings, no windows, old carpet I wasn’t allowed to remove, you name it….they were all, well, gross. The thing is, I can deal with yucky things if I can see the potential, it’s what I do for a living! But, the space has to speak to you. Last winter, I found that space, finally! 15 minutes from my house and 30 minutes from my daughters school, views of the river, TONS of light, 400 square feet, high ceilings, an awesome landlord and a plethora of fellow creatives in the building. I WAS IN.

When I walked in the space was bare bones. The studio is in an old Mill building and was completely raw. The wing that my studio is in, is mostly artist studios, looking to get messy without consquences. Paint drips on the floor, no biggy….that kind of place. But, I needed something more polished….so I negotiated with the landlord, I would pay a little bit more and he would renovate it for me while he was doing work on another wing of the building. It took him a few months to start, and we agreed I would move in July 2019.

July finally came, the empty shell was ready, and then MY work began. View the full story of my DIY’s on Domino today!

View the story on my DIY coffee table on Domino today.

BEFORE

View the story on this DIY built in storage and counter top on Domino.

BEFORE

View the story on my DIY standing desk on Domino.

I’m happy as a clam in here and so incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity come into my life. It was time. What an awesome way to start of 2020!

Read the full details on my DIY’s on Domino today!

After Photos by Dino Giordano

Shannon Tate 3/29/18 Shannon Tate 3/29/18

Before and After New Jersey Kitchen

Some time last year, I was introduced to the sweetest family in New Jersey, by way of the other sweetest family in New Jersey who also happen to be clients of mine. Cheese! But really, they are all the best. This new family, who I will call Nelle & Co. (because my clients name is Nelle) had just sold their gigantic old Victorian home and bought two side by side industrial condo units, and planned to make them into one, beautiful new family home. It was quite a leap and change in lifestyle, but they were tired of having "fix up the house" projects taking up every single weekend and decided family time and down time was much more important then the old Victorian. Love. The biggest and most fun challenge of this project was that Nelle & Co. are much more drawn to the decor that a Victorian home would have, that classic, elegance, collected antiques, china, old antique dishes, but also loved the new industrial condo. Although the words Victorian and Industrial are basically polar opposites....some crazy magic occurred when I needed to find out these two worlds could be fused together and I couldn't be happier with how this space turned out! I worked on the majority of the house with them, and this is just the kitchen. More photos to come in the near future when I can get back down to NJ to shoot some more!