Home & Design | Nicole Crowder
If you weren’t currently familiar with Nicole Crowder’s vibrant home furniture and textile styles, get all set. The Minnesota native, who returned household previously this yr, is about to make her mark. Yet again.
Just after several years producing shelter magazine headlines for her lively textile patterns when she lived in Washington, D.C., Crowder is unveiling new jobs seemingly by the day given that moving back to the Twin Metropolitan areas, where she grew up and exactly where her household lives. She squandered no time signing two leases: one particular for her apartment in the coronary heart of Uptown, just blocks from Bde Maka Ska, and a further for a 1,200-sq.-foot studio and workshop place in the Casket Arts Setting up in Northeast Minneapolis.
As we were earning the final edits on this tale, Crowder was jetting back and forth concerning Minneapolis and New York to go on filming her web sequence for Food stuff52. Occur January, her furnishings collection for Earth Market will debut in retailers. She not too long ago finished outfitting her new digs—though is a household at any time genuinely concluded?—and she invited us about for a glance inside of (and out).
Come on in to see how she remodeled a when banal condominium into a respite brimming with Crowder’s signature fashion.
Growing to New Heights
“I wished a spot exactly where I could not only be rejuvenated right after do the job in the coronary heart of this attractive metropolis but do so though enjoying a cocktail as effectively,” designer Nicole Crowder states of her balcony, which offers a bird’s-eye watch in the coronary heart of Uptown. She made the room work like an indoor place with a rug, seating, and facet tables so she can flip via a magazine or read through a reserve.
“I’m happily surprised at how this condominium seems to agreement and grow all at the exact time. If it’s adorable, I’m likely to come across a corner for it.”

A Fresh Start
Crowder was not shy about placing her imprint on her new apartment, starting off with producing statement partitions. “There was no anxiety of experimenting, only a need for self-expression by way of individual design,” she claims. “I have confidence in that if one thing doesn’t get the job done out, it can usually be improved.”
Higher and Lower
In the kitchen area, Crowder outlined the space by punching up a slice of the wall with a coat of bold purple paint (Stiletto Heels by Clark and Kensington) on the reduce portion and, earlier mentioned it, hand-painting the hash marks with turquoise paint from the fabric keep. She picked up the classic bar cart from Loft Antiques and painted it electric blue.
Spacial Matters
“I preferred to increase the residing and dining rooms, but I also wanted to produce sections so that my living room felt individual from the kitchen area and eating desk,” Crowder suggests. She manufactured the base of the outer kitchen area counter a focal stage by masking it in a graphic textile. She also re-coated the midcentury fashionable eating chairs with woven material by P/Kaufmann (she’s a lover of just one of the company’s style and design administrators, Annicia Adams Durka).
Artful Effects
During her apartment, Crowder displays her vibrant art selection, which ranges from items her pals and spouse and children have gifted to finds she’s picked up at craft markets and boutiques. Occasionally, she even stretches her fabrics across a canvas to make her personal art. Mostly neutral home furniture lets artwork, components, and pillows to present the pop.
Kind and Function
Crowder states she’s drawn to symmetry to create stability and order—both in her textile layouts and in her dwelling. In the living area, she break up up the sectional. “It will make the living room more conversational and makes a pure partition in between it and the dining room,” she claims. The hand-painted hash marks on the wall pick up on the rug’s repeating lines.
“As a renter, I consider to make each and every of my apartments my residence for even so extended I can. It means filling my condominium with factors that may well not have any form of permanence over and above the existing, because this is exactly where I lay my head now.”

Visible Inspiration
A freestanding bookshelf tucks into an empty wall just off the living area to home some of Crowder’s library of design and style textbooks and art collections. “Culturally, I have generally been all over individuals and residences that adorned them selves in a lot of coloration and bold jewelry and materials,” she claims. “I imagine that is why I’ve constantly been bold with coloration and material in my function.”
Combine and Mingle
On 1 wall in her bedroom, Crowder hand-painted a sample she established for House52. She built the tub chair as aspect of her Globe Sector collection, which debuts in January. “It’s the great shape, and the pattern suits into virtually any space,” she says.
On a Roll
“I’m encouraged by many points,” Crowder says of her research collecting for impending patterns. “Some are much more tactile, like style and traveling and patterns that the natural way manifest in or that I discover in character,” she claims. “Other inspirations are extra cerebral, like spirituality, tunes, and goals. I continue to keep an open up intellect about inspirations for the reason that they can appear from any place.”
Inventive Classes
Even though her apartment has a restricted footprint, Crowder’s new studio in the Casket Arts Setting up gives a lot of space to increase for her home furniture style work. She also strategies to provide Do-it-yourself workshops there beginning late winter/early spring 2022.
Three’s Business
Nicole Crowder shares some new-to-her people on her radar.
The Styl’d Life
In addition to creating households, Television and film sets, and activities, Nina Belton curates and sells house items on line and at pop-up events all over the Twin Metropolitan areas. 612-267-5380, thestyldlife.com
Bluebird Floral
Crowder’s assistant introduced her to Bluebird proprietor Becky Anderson, who produced a floral cloud that hangs in Crowder’s new style and design studio. 612-568-2090, bluebirdfloral.com
Bailey Builds
“I am obsessed with the wood pieces Anna and her partner, Nathanael, generate from reclaimed wooden,” Crowder suggests. The Duluth-dependent small business usually pops up at Minneapolis marketplaces. 218-481-7799, baileybuilds.com