RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN
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Yasu Home has been featured in Clever and Architectural Digest online, as well as Home Design & Decor Magazine, Living Etc, and Good Housekeeping.
Living, Etc Magazine
Has someone turned on the sun? I'm suddenly gloriously warm, filled with golden light and enveloped in cosiness. This is how a bedroom should be, the space welcoming you in with broad open arms and folding you into itself. Manyrooms impart the feeling of'a hug' - a lot of those have painted ceilings, hint hint. But this is more: it hugs you before tucking you into bed and stroking your hair for a while.
Clever/ArchDigest.com
When Kate Anlyan chose to move back to her native Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2021, she made another major decision too: Ending her two-decade career in fashion retail to start her own interior design firm. With Yasu Home, whose name nods to Kate’s Greek roots, she draws on her expertise in textiles to create layered, colorful spaces for her clients—but there’s no better example than her own midcentury-modernabode.
Home Design & Decor Magazine- Home Tour
When Kate Anlyan, owner of Yasu Home, and her husband Steve decided to move back home fromCalifornia in 2021, the market in Durham was chaotic. Their real estate agent, Todd Hancock, “the guru of modernist homes,” as Anlyan puts it, showed them countless properties, many of which they lost during bidding wars.
Good Housekeeping
"As for approaching color and pattern and texture mixing, to me it's all about the tension and balance," says Kate Anlyan of Yasu Home. Put a large-scale print with a smaller-scale print and another small-scale stripe or check. Keep it varied and don't worry about whether the patterns are related — it's fun to mix styles!"
Architectural Digest Social Media
Kate and her husband were immediately attracted to the 1965 home for its huge windows and functional layout.
Only after their offer was accepted did they learn that it had belonged to the Sedaris family, making it even more special. "It is a cool house in its own right, but the story is especially cool and very personal to me," Kate explains. "Growing up in North Carolina, and being a Greek American, I've read David's books throughout my life and always felt like I knew them. When we found out they were the previous owners, it just felt kismet."
