For the past year that we’ve been living in our apartment, my bedroom has been frustrating me a bit because it just didn’t feel right. All of the hod podge furniture and decor just wasn’t coming together properly like it usually does. My stuff…
Ever since I discovered that it’s pretty difficult to kill cacti and succulents I’ve been collecting then around the apartment like a squirrel preparing for winter. Usually when I bring a plant into the apartment it commits suicide upon entering our threshold, but the…
When it comes to craft supplies, I love glitter. In the past I’ve made a glittered shirt, a glittered purse, glittered sunglasses, and a glittered lamp shade. So when I received some iron-on glitter sheets to use in a project from the Tulip Holiday…
A couple months back when we were living in our old apartment, my roommate Adele walked by this home store with this incredible display of pendant lights hanging from pulleys. Adele took a photo so that we could recreate the idea in our new…
When we first moved to New York, we counted ourselves pretty lucky that we had a few square feet to our names and a sink large enough to wash dishes. We were really lucky to have had the apartment we got, but after a…
A few months back during Hurricane Sandy, we were cooped up for a few days in our little apartment. We were some of the (very) lucky ones who didn’t lose power, (or our home for that matter). So because we couldn’t do anything, we…
Out of all the decor I’ve collected over the years, my owl lamp is one of my favorites. (Much to my mother’s disgust. She hates the little guy. ;)) I found this lamp when I was in college, my friends and I were walking…
Our (very little) NYC apartment, all cozy and decorated for Christmas. 🙂 This little 700-square-foot little place and I have spent a lot of time together over the past couple of months and I’m pretty happy with some of the things my roommates and…
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DIY Apartment: Electrical Tape Frames
One of the major things about living in a NYC apartment is that we have to decorate our home in impermanent ways without making everything look like a dorm room. One way we’ve been doing this is with an excessive use of black electrical…
There’s a pretty specific type of couch that you can haul from Indiana to New York in a cargo van full of furniture, clothes, and stuff to furnish an apartment. There’s also a very specific type of couch that will allow three roommates in…