Billy Morrissette's New York City loft apartment
Moving from L.A. to New York City meant Billy Morrissette had to convert a crack den in to a luxury loft.
“I woke up one day and I was in a large, crazy, dark place,” Mr. Morrissette said, “having moved from very sunny Los Angeles, and all of a sudden I’m making ‘Guernica’ in the crack den.”
He bought loft space for $1.5 million in 2006 and it was dark, dank, and honeycombed with homemade rooms the prior owner had rented out. Basically the former crack den was a bunch of plywood boxes inside a giant space. And it was all black. Literally, the owner had chosen black as the interior color.
Billy Morrissette knew he wanted a grundgy industrial loft for his space. Working with architect, Diana Kellogg, he created the quintessential industrial loft look with tons of space and light.
He spent some significant bucks to get the loft to work, for example, an upper level formerly was only reachable by ladder, but $320,000 later a staircase now rises to the closets, storage, laundry, two baths, two guest rooms, hidden by a walnut veneer wall.
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