Artist turns her New York home into a psychedelic retreat when American artist kat o’sullivan purchased a run-down 1840s residence in upstate new york, she planned for its total reconstruction into a psychedelic retreat, painted in a spectrum of rainbow hues and large-scale frescoes. Since then, she and partner mason brown have added oddly shaped windows, vibrantly colored exterior paneling and a pink front door to their home, transforming it into ‘calico’. black-painted trim gives the entire scheme a cartoon-like quality, as if torn from the pages of a comic magazine. a hand-painted mural illustrated near the roof draws out the shape of smiling mouth, while two adjacent window-frames serve as the eyes of the architectural face.

o’sullivan has added oddly shaped windows to exterior

colorful exterior paneling is painted in a spectrum of rainbow hues

black painted outlines give the entire exterior a cartoon-like quality

murals painted near the roof illustrate a smiling face, completed by window frames acting like eyes

the artist’s bus parked outside is colorized with a similar stylistic approach

vibrant shades are painted onto the walls of the home

working on the residence.