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Sometimes people look for larger homes because their families are growing. However, interior designer Sydney Moss (of Sydney Moss Designs) and her partner, Joseph Loonam (plus their cat, Nala, and dog, Percy), were looking for a bigger space to share with fewer people.
The couple met at an artist collective in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. Sydney, who also posts on TikTok, had been living there for two-and-a-half years, and Joe had lived there a year before they started considering alternatives. Joe’s friend’s parents owned a one-bedroom rental apartment in Bay Ridge, New York, and they decided to check it out.
“The apartment was beautiful — a bay window in the living room, original trim, cove ceilings, the floors had just been redone — but honestly, the idea of having a kitchen that we didn’t have to share with 12 other people is what sold us,” Sydney explained at the time Apartment Therapy first published this house tour.
Sydney admitted that it was a “bit of a bachelor pad” before the couple moved in, but luckily she was attending Parsons School of Design and majoring in interior design at the time. “I had renders and floor plans made before we even signed the lease,” she said. Sydney said mapping out their new space served as “good practice.”
Since moving into the home (which Sydney estimates was built initially between the 1910s and 1920s) four years ago, they’ve definitely made their mark on the space. Namely, the living room is covered in hand-painted flowers and murals. But that’s just one of the gorgeous projects.