Tip #77: Plan your meals; empty your fridge. This is life advice more than tiny apartment advice, but we’re loosey-goosey about the rules around these tea leaves. This tip has a back story about…
Tip #76: Use clear shower curtain liners. If I were to give a simple tip about making a small apartment bathroom appear larger, I’d say use a clear shower curtain liner instead of a…
Tip #75: Get some perspective. At the risk of being a culturally insensitive boor, let me say that spending some time in a canvas tipi in the middle of the Wallowa Mountains of eastern…
Tip #74: Make room for guests. A follow up to my last tip re: overnight guests in a tiny apartment. This summer we’ve had more overnight guests than we’ve had in the past three…
Tip #73: Embrace your crazy corners. It’s possible that I should be the last person on the planet to recommend such a thing. Truth be told, there are a few corners in this apartment…
Tip #72: Employ icy footrests. Post related to the summer heat #2,348. The evenings around here lately have been a marathon of foot propping. If my feet swell this much from the heat, I’m…
Tip #71: Finding a tiny apartment. Here’s something that I’ve never really officially covered but that gets asked of me a lot. How did you find your tiny apartment? I think the…
Tip #70: Picnic dinners. Choices. We live in a very small apartment in large part because we live in a very beautiful neighborhood. Last week, when my sister Devan was visiting from Asheville, we…
Tip #69: In the summertime, take a cold shower. You do this already, don’t you? I’m a baby when it comes to being cold. I can handle a cool shower for the first few…
Tip #68: Walk. This tip brought to you by last night’s Brooklyn sunset. As much as you’re possibly able, take an after dinner walk. It is always worth it. Every single time. It doesn’t…