"Apartment is a piece of art" - Dave G.

A Painterview

Noelle: Okay. So what's going on? Tell me about this, this situation.

Dave: You have to ask me a more specific question.

N: Oh. Okay. Ummm...How do you feel about your apartment now that it is painted?

D: Well, I’m more connected to my apartment now. Now it’s not just like a shell with my things in it, now it’s a place I enjoy. I enjoy looking around my apartment, at my apartment, not just the things in my apartment. It’s like the apartment is a piece of art.

N: It feels integrated….

D: Yeah.

N: What was it like before?

D: (laughing) It was like a garage! It was just white, there was a bunch of stuff in it…

N: (laughing) ...some exhaust…

D: Yeah, it was just there. It was a shell.

N: What made you decide to take the plunge and paint?

D: The realization for me was…it wasn’t about my apartment—it was about my life. I had reached a point where I realized that this was no longer a temporary thing for me. There were things going on in my life where 

I realized, Alright, I’m entering a new phase of my life. This apartment is going to be a part of that—it’s not just a weigh station. So I need to make it all that it could be.

N: Now that it’s more than a shell holding your stuff, what does that do for you?

D: I don’t know, it’s hard to describe what it does. It doesn’t really do anything. It’s just sort of proud. The apartment sort of thanks you back, it sortof sits here now, like, thank you for doing this to me.

N: (laughing) Your apartment came alive?

D: Yeah, its like, thank you. It reawakened. It’s like it got the respect it deserved. It’s just sitting there looking back at you saying, look how good I look--thank you.

N: Wow.

D: It’s like I had this person sitting here forever in like a schmata, like a mum. And then one day I went out and bought them beautiful clothes, and they looked awesome, and I was like, Oh my god, you look awesome. And they’re like, Yeah, thank you! I look awesome this great.

N: What beautiful clothes did you get?

D: Just the paint, that brought it all together, and some jewelry.

N: The jewelry being... your art?

D: Yeah, which I had. I just hadn't hung most of it.

N: Before you said you are more connected to your apartment…

D: Yeah, the apartment sort of envelops you more, surrounds you, sort of snuggles with you a little bit rather than being this white shell. It just sort of hangs out with you.

N: That sounds amazing. Why didn't you do this earlier?

D: I figured it would be a pain in the ass. I didn’t know what [color] to paint it. It seems like a chore, and there are endless paint colors and endless decisions to make about it.  

And like I said about the timing. I realized I’m going to stay here a while and I should make it as good as it could be.

N: Did your kids notice the new paint?

D: They did, but it was because I said, Hey look at the new paint. 

N: Bottom line this for me. What's the take-away?

D: You can make your apartment a real apartment. You can transform your apartment so easily. You don’t have to accept your apartment the way it is. Your apartment is probably dying for it! The paint on the wall—the white paint on the walls—is just primer, the canvas.

N: (looking at the walls) And this isn’t that far from white, wouldn’t you say?

D: It's still neutral, but it’s a totally different feeling than white.

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