Caleb Feiring, BA’15: A Haven in the Concrete Jungle

Caleb Feiring, who studied English, economics and history at Vanderbilt, is an entrepreneur with an interesting-and incredibly tiny-place to call home in New York City. He and his brother, Micah, are the founding principals of Princevest, a real estate development company that builds apartments in Princeton, New Jersey. Ironically, they initially had trouble finding an apartment in New York City. When they finally found a place in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, younger brother Caleb got the 50-square-foot bedroom. What he did to expand it into "a hug from Mother Nature" was the subject of a New York Times Living Small article earlier this year. But as older brother Micah notes in the piece, "he has become almost aggravatingly competent at doing more with less."

Shelves in the closet provide storage (bottom right), while the closet doors (bottom left) feature painted panels of peel-and-stick wallpaper designed by artist Mae Curry.

The room before Caleb transformed it (below)