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Jeffrey Hamilton came to unrecorded successful an bare condominium, arsenic galore do, aft a achy breakup.

“It was a stressful clip adjacent though it was an amicable breakup,” says the 38-year-old anesthesiologist. “I had 2 weeks to determination and was hopeless to find something.”

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Hamilton, who is drawn to “gallery-esque achromatic boxes,” yet settled successful a two-bedroom, two-bathroom Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects-designed condo 4 blocks distant successful West Hollywood. With fewer possessions different than his cats, helium proceeded to furnish the portion with secondhand items helium recovered chiefly connected Facebook Marketplace.

During the process, helium says, helium recovered himself.

Not to beryllium upstaged by Romulus the cat, Janeway, a husky premix adopted from Hollywood Huskies, makes a connection successful the surviving room.

Black CB2 shelves Hamilton recovered connected Facebook Marketplace store artfully arranged ceramics, books and his and his boyfriend’s shoes.

“It was the archetypal clip I had lived connected my ain successful a agelong clip and it was bully to perceive to my ain instincts,” says Hamilton, sitting successful the surviving country of his elegant condo, which helium present shares with his fellow David Poli, his cats Romulus and Remus and Poli’s Husky mix, Janeway (named for Kathryn Janeway, the archetypal pistillate skipper connected the tv bid “Star Trek: Voyager”). All the pets are rescues.

“Jeffrey likes to accidental that everything successful his flat is simply a rescue, including me,” says Poli jokingly.

When Hamilton adopted his cats six years agone during his aesculapian residency successful San Diego, they were kittens; now, arsenic adults, helium says, the spotted Bengal cats person not conscionable grown but person influenced his plan choices successful his caller home.

The den features much pet-friendly choices including a Rove Concepts modular sofa that Hamilton bought connected clearance. “It’s a small tiny for 2 grown men and 3 pets,” helium says.

“My archetypal inspiration was to lucifer the furnishings to the kitties truthful I don’t spot their feline hair,” helium says. “The cats precise overmuch informed the colour scheme. I find them truthful handsome; it felt similar having matching furnishings was practical.”

In the surviving room, for instance, Hamilton chose a camel-colored Curvo sofa successful velvet by Goop for CB2, which helium recovered connected Facebook Marketplace. Similarly, the accompanying swivel chairs from HD Buttercup and the barstool seats successful the room are upholstered successful Bengal and Husky-durable textiles that camouflage favored hair.

Actor Kit Williamson, a Hollywood person who has tackled galore of his ain interior plan projects, says Hamilton and Poli’s location is much than conscionable a harmless spot to land. “I emotion that Jeffrey’s plan for the flat was inspired by his cats — and that David’s canine not lone gets on with the cats, but complements the colour palette,” helium says. “It’s not conscionable cohesive, it’s kismet.”

A vintage table successful the chamber provides a spot for distant work.

No request for lint rollers arsenic Janeway blends successful with the furnishings.

Hamilton grew up successful the Bay Area but has moved astir the state for his acquisition and aesculapian training, including stints successful New York City, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle. So erstwhile helium moved to Los Angeles for bully successful 2022, helium recovered buying for furnishings connected Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace to beryllium a large mode to get to cognize the city.

“It was bully primitively due to the fact that I was caller to L.A., and it helped maine get a amended consciousness of Los Angeles,” helium says. “I ventured to Woodland Hills and Calabasas — I got a batch of vintage worldly successful Woodland Hills.”

Living alone, Hamilton says, is what allowed him to “find abstraction and clip to honor” his ain interests a small more.

“I deliberation with aesculapian school, residency and fellowship training, I didn’t person overmuch clip and abstraction oregon resources to self-examine, arsenic truthful overmuch of my clip was occupied moving and reasoning astir the wellness of others,” helium says.

For him, portion of his process for creating a welcoming location was focusing connected “sustainable goods — things that were used, vintage oregon local,” helium says.

That accounts for immoderate of Hamilton’s location decor selections: The CB2 bookshelves from Facebook Marketplace, which store artfully arranged ceramics, books and the couple’s neatly stacked shoes and a travertine eating country table, besides from Facebook Marketplace.

Down the hall, successful their bedroom, is simply a vintage table wherever Poli tin enactment from location respective days a week. “It’s a small beat-up, which I like,” Hamilton says. “I similar things that are shiny and bully but besides beat-up astir the edges. Nothing excessively perfect. “

Romulus reclines connected the camel-colored velvet sofa successful the surviving room.

And past determination is the art. “It was important to maine to person pieces from either section artisans oregon artists who are L.A.-based,” helium says, noting the tall, plaster lamp successful the surviving country by Kate O’Connor and a graphic stoneware vessel by Chad Callaghan atop his marble java table.

In the surviving room, Hamilton hung a large-scale artwork by Texas-based creator Jason Adkins for General Public, a institution developed by Portia de Rossi that licenses and 3D-prints artworks. In the den, different Adkins portion for General Public hangs alongside a vintage people by Cy Twombly. “They consciousness similar existent paintings,” helium says of the Synographs. “You can’t archer the difference. “

Elegant, clutter-free and homey, the condominium is simply a calm spot to travel location to aft moving agelong shifts, including overnights, astatine Children’s Hospital. “A consciousness of calm and serenity was astir apt a precise important implicit priority,” Hamilton says. “My enactment tin beryllium precise stressful astatine times, truthful having a spot of refuge came naturally.”

Luckily, balancing comfortableness and pets is different happening that came people to the mates aft they moved successful together.

The open-concept room is modern and streamlined.

“We person a bully synergy,” Hamilton says of Poli. “We thin to hold erstwhile it comes to interior design.”

“I’m much of a minimalist,” Poli says. “Jeffrey likes pillows excessively much. It’s getting a small engaged successful here,” helium adds, teasing his partner.

“I bash similar pillows,” Hamilton says, noting that helium precocious bought a sewing instrumentality truthful helium tin marque his ain brushed furnishings. “I’ve learned that the champion outdoor pillows for pets are from Arhaus. They don’t stain, and they are truly durable.”

Like galore millennials his age, Hamilton often thinks astir buying a location but finds existent property prices, combined with the lodging shortage successful Los Angeles, daunting. “It’s truthful expensive,” helium says. “I support doing the math, get approved for a mortgage, past spot the involvement rates and however overmuch you person to enactment down — and I conscionable can’t bash it. My rent is ridiculous, but it’s much economical than immoderate owe I’ve seen successful West Hollywood.”

For now, Hamilton enjoys surviving successful a 30-unit gathering successful a pedestrian-friendly vicinity with a rooftop platform overlooking the Sunset Strip. “I don’t request a ton of space,” helium says. “Maybe a condo successful West Hollywood would beryllium a bully starting constituent someday.”

After all, he’s learned he’s bully astatine starting over.