Halloween festivities. The prints will stay
up until Nov. 1, Tricia said, before they’re
replaced by the everyday “botanical
images” she stores directly underneath,
which come out on days without holidays
or celebrations.
In the kitchen, there’s a designated tea
corner. The couple stores tea boxes in a
storage unit whose cubbies magically fit the
teas, “almost as if it was made for this,” Tricia
said. She painted it herself after having
found it on the street.
Perhaps the most unexpected feature is
a home audio studio concealed as a closet.
Sean lined the inside with soundproof fabric.
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But the couple recently acquired another
home studio — an external one that sits
in their office space next to the masks. Sean
and Tricia decided to take on audiobook
narration to have more stability and worklife
balance, which proved especially helpful
when their first child, Lyra, came along last
June. Besides, it’s just like acting, Tricia said:
“You get to play everything when you’re doing
an audiobook. You’re playing the old
grandma and the dragon and the whatever
it is. It’s all different genres and always an
adventure.”
But with two studios, one of which is a
closet, space can get tight. “We’ve found
interesting ways to create storage spaces,”
Tricia said, highlighting that off-season
clothing gets tucked away into another closet
or into the studio closet along its highceilinged
walls.
Another way to circumvent space restrictions?
“I’m a purger,” Tricia confessed. “I
purge often and I’m cutthroat.” Books, for
example, get recycled or donated if they
weren’t opened in a while.
While New York City homes are usually
tight on space, neither of the two minds.
They moved to Astoria for its proximity to
work opportunities.
“This is really the place to be for audio-
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