Solange Knowles has lived in the same loft overlooking downtown Hollywood since she was just 19, to which she has added some personal touches including furniture she designed herself.

The singer-songwriter, who has a net worth of $9million, recently shared in an Architectural Digest spread how she made the space her own personal sanctuary with objects she collects that she feels encapsulates her life.

She even shared how she writes most of her music from the bathtub, which became a safe haven of hers early on in her career. 

Solange's downtown pad is now an eclectic minimalist space, with work commissioned by black artists and an array of knickknacks that bring her peace.

As Chloe Sultan wrote for Apartamento magazine, 'This loft has been through all of it, the private island where her personal investigations of space register themselves in the small, mundane arrangements of her everyday life.'

Solange Knowles, 36, recently showed off her intimate loft overlooking downtown Hollywood

She designed the couch in the living room - just steps from the kitchen appliances - herself

Solange, now 36, first moved into the apartment when she was just 19 years old and had an infant son.

'As my career as a songwriter grew, I wanted to find a place where we could have a bit more grounding, a home life there with more stable roots,' she said of her apartment search at the time. 

'I was a single mother and I was looking for a building with a sense of safety when I found this loft space in Hollywood,' she told the real estate magazine describing it as a 'peaceful nest' from the bustling city outside.

'I really felt connected to its [1920s] art deco architecture, its exterior and all of its original moldings and details,' Solange said.

Since then, she said, 'No matter where I've gone or moved, no matter the friends or relationships that have come in or out of my life, this loft has always been a place of home. 

'It's been one of the most constant, grounding things in my life.'

Solange then shared how the bathtub in the loft became her own personal oasis, where she does most of her writing.

'The beginnings of that love for the bath really started in the loft,' she said. 'Those days of just coming home alone from the studio, my son being at school, and that was my safe space.

'I recognize it as sort of recreating the environment of a womb, feeling safety in that, trying to recreate those early attachments to my mother.

'The bathtub was my space to take care of myself and my body and my heart, and have those awakenings of what I was being called to do and deliver into the world.' 

Solange's minimalist bathroom is pictured here, where she says she does most of her writing

In the beginning, Solange said, she did not have much in the apartment except for a mattress, a bed in her son's room and 'the most basic furniture you could have'

In the beginning, Solange said, she did not have much in the apartment except for a mattress, a bed in her son's room and 'the most basic furniture you could have.'

But eventually, she said, she started to add her own personal touches to the space.

'And then I remember, I was living in New York for a period, and my mom moved in while she was getting her home renovated. 

'She totally Tina-fied it and painted all of the walls and put in curtains and added a bedroom,' Beyoncé's sister recounted. 'In the six months she stayed in it, she transformed it.' 

At some point, Solange even began designing her own furniture as she tried to figure 'out new ways to express my own deign language and encompass all of my ideas and ideals into objects.'

She started off by creating her own sofa, which she said she wanted to be a 'modular piece with different variations, but all starting with the circle, which is very sacred to me.'

Originally, she said, she had the sofa facing the window 'so that most of my guests and I would be looking to the light.

'Then I had it in a circle, which was a really intense social experiment, witnessing people have such intentionality with their energy and their body language, just absolutely mirroring the person across the room.

'And then I opened it up into this current configuration, and it felt really right,' Solange said of the wavy pattern she has now. 

'It's not as intense as the circle, but you still have that sort of flow of energy from your neighbor.' 

The singer-songwriter said she started to fill her apartment with 'lifelong objects'

Solange has also started 'to collect things with the intention of keeping them as lifelong objects that would become part of my life wherever I am, envisioning how these objects and artworks could evolve with me over the next 40, 50 years.'

She explained that she relies upon those objects 'to teach me things about myself and to reflect things in me that I need to listen to or work on.

'I really look to all of these as things that I would leave on my own personal altars, or if I were to be gone, what I would want to b a representation of who I was and what I believed in,'

She added: 'Over the last few years, it's the space that I come to that feels like a snapshot of these different chapters of my life.

'It's really sentimental for me, for sure.' 

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