A Brooklyn Artist Infuses Her 1,000-Square-Foot Apartment With Her Signature “Pantone-Punk” Style

Lizzy Plapinger, the solo indie musician who performs as LPX and cofounder of record label Neon Gold, punches up her railroad-style rental with funky secondhand steals and hand-painted walls and furniture.
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For artist Lizzy Plapinger, the apartment was kismet. She’d almost given up hope of finding a suitable spot for her needs and aesthetic—a within-budget space big enough to create her work in and enough of a blank canvas to put her stamp on the interior (plus an amenable landlord). But the way she got her floor-through, 1,000-square-foot railroad-style rental was the stuff of New York legend.

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Megan Reynolds
Senior Home Guides Editor
Megan Reynolds is Dwell's Senior Home Guides Editor. She's previously worked at Jezebel, The Billfold, and many others. She feels strongly about neon as a neutral and loves a good lamp. Holler: megan.reynolds @ dwell dot com.

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