Style & Shopping · April 21, 2024

Why Beth Birkett Gibbs Says You Shouldn’t Toss the IKEA Pieces You’ve Outgrown

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Beth Birkett Gibbs wants her go to feel off-kilter. “When I create a space that is besides condom, it doesn’t feel authentic,” she tells Domino deputy editor Julie Vadnal inwards the latest episode of Design Time: The Rebellious Ones (out today on Spotify and Apple Podcasts). “It feels like, ‘Ooh, you lot’re scared. So you lot went obvious.’ I similar to force myself to do things that I haven’t seen earlier.”

From opening the Los Angeles streetwear storefront Union, which she co-owns with her hubby, Chris Gibbs, to launching her creative blueprint studio, Bephie—together with collaborating with brands similar Nike, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as well as Converse—Gibbs has a more than-than-impressive portfolio thanks to her risk-taking. 

In the episode, Gibbs shares why she won’t option a paint colour from a Pantone volume, the argue she used Roman Clay instead of limewash on her walls, and the room in her vibrant L.A. habitation she thinks she designed on the rubber side. (Spoiler alert: It’sec not the living room where her dark-green manus-dyed RH Cloud sofa lives.) She too answers all of our Never Have I Ever questions. Here’s a sneak peek:

Never have I always…accidentally killed a establish.

I take killed plants. It’sec a struggle, but I’m figuring it out.

Never have I e’er…bought a slice of piece of furniture at Target.

Oh, accept I ever? Of form I take. Target’sec and so neat, just it gets you lot inwards problem.

Never take I e’er…fought alongside a meaning other over a decor item.

You know what? Never accept I ever. [Chris] is really laid-dorsum, Canadian. I want him to have more of a enjoin. He’ll simply convey inward an art piece or purchase a lamp, only it’sec non actually a conversation. He’second like: Do you lot, and I’ll do me. And that’s our blueprint style.

Never take I ever…hung fine art upside downwards.

Never have I always. I make not hang art, because I volition hang it upside downwardly.

Never take I ever…cried while edifice IKEA furniture.

Oh, accept I e’er. Yes, of form. Those instructions are a nightmare. I don’t know who they’re for. Actually, I’ve tried non to purchase IKEA as much for those big things. That’sec i matter my hubby I had to talk nigh, because when nosotros were younger, that’sec all we could afford. And now we’ve changed together with nosotros’re trying to do less and less. Hold on to that IKEA, though—who would have known they would become classics.