![]() ![]() Hopefully in the near future Tangerine House will have enough rooms to provide the right accommodation for everyone on the waitlist. However, the most defining moment was likely when we launched the application portal for upcoming room vacancies and received over 200 applications. Sean: Hosting a pop-up house (alongside Treble.fm) for SXSW with around 20 artists, music studio, was the biggest splash we have made so far. What has been your biggest defining moment thus far? ![]() Hosting events and creating content on a budget has also been difficult, but with the help of residents and everyone else a part of our community, Tangerine House has been able to pull together 200-person events, host monthly live recording sessions in Manhattan and film a mobile recording studio miniseries in the “Tangerine Van”, all while maintaining the co-living infrastructure. We’ve all spent a lot of hours building indoor and outdoor furniture for the house and seeking furniture deals to create an interior design on a budget. Sean: Building the spaces on a budget has been difficult. What are some challenges you’ve faced while trying to get off the ground? The next day we moved in with four other strangers to start Tangerine House. We both broke our leases, put up a Craigslist ad for an “Artist House”, got rejected from a bunch of places and truly a day before our leases were going to end got approved for what is now our original space. So I left my job and asked my friend Sean-whom I’ve known since kindergarten-who had left his 9-5 to produce and write music full time, if he would move his recording studio to the basement of a house/apartment in Bushwick and start a space where artists could live and work out of. Seeing that, feeling the energy at a Treble Tuesday (an awesome event series bringing together all types of creatives), seeing the Brockhampton guys build out of their LA house were all foundational to starting Tangerine House: I saw people building without permission and saw how important physical space was for creatives, especially in today’s digital world. The dude built a wooden stage from scratch and started bringing people together for live concerts/comedy shows on Canal Street-he just did it, no sign off, just like I’m gonna build a stage and start hosting people on it. ![]() After work, I started going to these events Kidsuper was throwing in an empty store. Sam: I was working at a talent agency and felt far away from people actually creating things. Can you give me some background on how you decided to start Tangerine House? ![]()
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