artist turns her new york home into a psychedelic retreat

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when american artist kat o’sullivan purchased a run-down 1840s residence in upstate new york, she planned for its total reconstruction into a psychedelic retreat, painted in a spectrum of rainbow hues and large-scale frescoes. since then, she and partner mason brown have added oddly shaped windows, vibrantly colored exterior paneling and a pink front door to their home, transforming it into ‘calico’. black-painted trim gives the entire scheme a cartoon-like quality, as if torn from the pages of a comic magazine. a hand-painted mural illustrated near the roof draws out the shape of smiling mouth, while two adjacent window-frames serve as the eyes of the architectural face.







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http://www.designboom.com/art/artist-kat-osullivan-new-york-home-psychedelic-calico-11-06-2014/

Before:

[ret5hd]

1. Uh Oh...here comes the HOA!

[GreatGazoo]

6. or a neighbor to complain about 'property values'

Love the individuality of that house!

[hibbing]

2. I like it

I think it is pretty cool, without being obnoxious.

Peace

[hedgehog]

3. Take that, San Francisco!

[shenmue]

4. Pretty

[BlueJazz]

5. I like that sort of thing. Adds spice to the world.

[UglyGreed]

7. Looks like something I thought

I saw at a Dead show at Saratoga many years ago.

[Worried senior]

8. Something I really like

but wouldn't have the guts to do. Think my husband would though.

[Odin2005]

9. I WANT THIS HOUSE!!! It's adorable!