Rental Revamp: Nick Laciok’s DIY Düsseldorf Flat Is a Perpetual Work in Progress

The photographer and his partner use soothing paint colors, a medley of vintage furniture, and lots of ingenuity to reinvent their early-1900s apartment.
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Photographer and set stylist Nick Laciok was about six years old when he had his first creative breakthrough—involving the living room curtains and a pair of scissors. The end result, a shortened set of drapes with bows fashioned from the trimmings, felt like a "groundbreaking" new invention at the time, he recalls. 

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