Interior design ideas: illustrator Oliver Jeffers' New York home - in pictures

British-born artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers at home in Brooklyn, New York. He shares the tiny apartment with his wife, Suzanne, and the pair rent a huge studio a few minutes' Vespa-ride away.
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott

You can glimpse the small mezzanine bedroom above the sofa, accessed through the hallway.
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Jeffers fills his home with his own, usually quirky, artworks.
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The thrift-store look can feel contrived, but here the pieces all fit. A roll-top desk from Craigslist was bought purely to fit the even smaller space in their previous apartment, above which sits this book-filled shelf.
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Chalkboard signs in the hallway in Jeffers' unmistakeable script, as seen in his children's books – since 2004's How To Catch A Star, he has published roughly a book a year.
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A reclaimed bathroom cabinet.
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A simple display in the panelled hallway.
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Jeffers' studio, in nearby Cobble Hill. It enables him and Suzanne to cut off from work at home where they gather in the kitchen with friends, or head down to the boardwalk that looks out on the spectacular Manhattan skyline.
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"In my studio I have a huge blackboard I write on. Crossing things off lists is probably my favourite thing to do. Sometimes, I’ll even add something on to a list that I’ve already done, just so I can cross it off.”
Photograph: Nicholas Calcott