Every year I try to remember to do a little photoshoot in our apartment to remember the holidays… And this year was a little bit later than the last. ( Here is last year’s post and here’s from our first apartment.) 2015 has been…
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NYC Apartment Update: Bedroom Plants and Temporary Wallpaper Closet Doors
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…
Sitting in my Indiana bedroom editing these photos of our apartment all decked out for Christmas, it’s pretty incredible to think about all of the things that happened in 2013. Sean got into medical school, so many travels, a bigger apartment, tons of projects,…
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…
As I was looking through my photos and posts getting ready to share a snippet of our new apartment that we just moved into in August, I realized that I’d never shared a photo tour of my old apartment. I shared photos around Christmastime,…
As we get ready to move around the corner to our *second* NYC apartment, I’ve been in full-on project mode. One of my most recent projects was making this faux taxidermy out of cardboard, plaster, paint, and paper mache. The night I decided to…
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…
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…