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“I was storing dirt in all the containers in our apartment,” Simmons says, which partly spurred her on to find a space outside her house to build the pre-made styles (each of which is named after an important woman in her life) she sells through her site and to bring in groups of students. The long, custom-built table room at The Lemon Bowl now hosts Simmons’ workshops, along with a long list of others, which is fortunate for her roomate. Lettered plant pots greet visitors on top of a card-catalog-cum-greenery-dispenser. A table vignette featuring a Linny airplant holder Giffin’s custom-made yarn lamp. “DC Chapter,” she tells me, “and I’m definitely the youngest by about 30 years!” Cheerfully decorated shelves in The Lemon Bowl’s sunny front room. Three years after she started, she’s now even a member of the National Succulent and Cactus Society. That was the moment, she says, when she realized this could be an actual business (or a “side hustle” as she calls it). After posts about her terrariums on Brightest Young Things caught the eye of LivingSocial, she was invited to teach a course at the company’s former DC headquarters-for 500 people over 12 weeks. Friends reaped the initial rewards of her overflow of plants. Instead, she ordered a mass shipment of succulents and got to work building her own. “I went to buy a terrarium,” she says, “but didn’t want to spend all that money.”

Studio one 3 kickass full#

Simmons, who found the space and aptly calls herself a “Craigslist ninja” (those chairs at the long workshop table were a steal at 15 for $100) works full time at the Washington Post as the dining editor of Express, and started her business by accident. The Lemon Bowl: Kathryn Zaremba, Holley Simmons, and Linny Giffin. In the four months since they moved in, the space has undergone a complete transformation and is now filled with cheerful, perfectly off-kilter decor and a bevy of the Lemon Bowl collective’s own work, like the windowsill that overflows with Simmons’ cacti and succulents, an inspired macrame light fixture by Giffin, and chipper vignettes constructed around Zaremba’s wallpaper. But on first sight it was a mess: ripped linoleum flooring, inconveniently placed walls, and that bizarrely full bathroom in the back.

The trio-Simmons, wallpaper and textile designer Kathryn Zaremba, and fiber artist Linny Giffin-got wind of the available space through friends at the Colony Club, a coffee shop one block up Georgia Ave. But we just have so many questions about this space! Like why was there a shower in the back?” “The deli itself was called The Lemon Bowl,” she continues, “and we liked the name so we just kept it. Larry,” says terrarium connoisseur and Sill Life owner Holley Simmons, referring to the former owner of the deli space that she and two fellow makers have masterfully converted into a studio and workshop space. “We’re always on the lookout for someone who might know Mr.