five little things that made my week. 1. this laundry bag. {because it sat in a corner of our bedroom unpacked for an entire workday and no one tripped over it or even remembered…
Tip #95: Unpack the kitchen. Forgive the upcoming onslaught of unpacking posts, but our move has gotten me thinking about ways to make a tiny apartment move more tolerable. In hopes you might actually tolerate…
James and I have finally fully moved into our new attic apartment. The boxes are unpacked and long gone, but there’s still all of the usual fussing to be done. We’re deep into what I like…
five little things that made my week. 1. these blackish blue berries. {because they’re the inspiration for a little weekend paint job.} 2. this moon calendar. {because it finally has a place to hang…
Tip #94: Look around. I guess it’s time to drop the two fifty from these apartment posts. It was never really the right title anyway: more careful measurements revealed that the apartment was only…
Blame it on Yankee thrift, but despite the fact that we’ve moved house together four times, before this move James and I had never hired movers. We’ve coerced unsuspecting friends and family into helping…
Tip #93: Keep a razor blade handy. When moving into a tiny apartment my number one, couldn’t-live-without tool is the humble razor blade. Beyond being useful for cutting through tape on box after box…
Welp. We’re doing it. We haven’t taken exact measurements, but our new space hovers somewhere near 400 square feet and sits four flights up in the space above the cornice of a brownstone just…
five little things that made my week. 1. this lease. {because we signed it.} 2. these gloves. {because i finally caved and got high-tech.} 3. this pile of laundry. {for being so stripey}. 4.…
Tip #92: Have a checklist. In the spirit of not counting chickens before they’re hatched, I’m not going into details about last night’s apartment search. They’ll be plenty of time for that. Instead, here’s…