Before the holidays I was over at my friend Tiffany’s apartment in Brooklyn. She had this amazing garland of wool balls hanging on her wall that she bought from a little shop. When I was home for Christmas, we got a little snowed in…
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…
So when we first moved to our tiny NYC apartment, the three of us brought our own mismatched furniture, decor, and knickknacks. Over the past few months we’ve updated a few of these items to make the apartment more cohesive and put-together. These chairs…
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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…
One night a few weeks ago, I was riding my scooter home off the subway and I noticed this wine crate outside of a liquor store near our apartment. In typical scrappy fashion, I picked up the crate and took it home, with no…
These days some of my favorite crafts have had to do with our tiny NYC apartment as opposed to crafting up my clothes. 🙂 I’ve decided to start a little blog series on the progression of our apartment and give little tours when the…
I’ve always been a student of slow decorating— more out of necessity and budgetary restrictions than anything. But these days I am starting to see that decorating slowly is a really fun proces. I’m the type of person who is a perpetual decorator– I’m…
Ok, so remember in one of my earlier posts about painting a filing cabinet I talked about this wonderful furniture graveyard at my old work in Indiana? In that same furniture scavenge, I also found an old (heavy) office cabinet. I thought it might…