It’s not enough to taste the rainbow; Skittles wants you live inside it.
Skittles is offering the chance to live in a Skittles-themed New York City apartment designed by interior decorator Dani Klaric that packs every color of the rainbow several times over into a tiny 353-square foot space. Rent is free for a year, but your sanity is accepted as an alternative form of payment.
The one-room apartment was designed to promote the new Skittles Littles (a tiny version of Skittles) with features like a multi-colored vinyl-wrapped kitchen, Skittles tiled flooring in the bathroom, and a canvas filled with Skittles Littles for wall art. They also swapped out the standard off-on light switch for red and green arcade game buttons.
“It’s definitely one of the most maximalist apartments I’ve decorated,” Klaric said in a TikTok video about the five-day makeover. “We started with a blank canvas, there was absolutely no color at all.”
Klaric and her team painted the ceiling orange and covered the apartment’s Murphy bed in all-red dots. Skittles calls the look “maximalism meets littlesism.”
Located in Kips Bay on Manhattan’s east side, the apartment is one of 55 units in Carmel Place, New York’s first “micro-unit” apartment building. Though Skittles didn’t provide a market rate for a year’s worth of rent in the unit, similar studios in the building have rented for anywhere from $2,900 to around $3,500 over the last year.
Among the building’s amenities are a fitness center, roof deck, lounge, outdoor grill, rec room, and in-building laundry. Skittles promises the contest winner will also get a weekly housekeeping service and restocked toiletries from Malin & Goetz.
To enter to win, all you have to give is your name, phone number, and email address. You must also consent to your data being processed by a third party. Receiving marketing emails from Skittles’ owner Mars Wrigley, however, is optional.
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