Survival Tip #163: List the pros. We moved. Just temporarily. While a damaged wall and the associated peeling paint in our apartment gets repaired, we’re one flight down, in a space nearly identical to…
Tip #153: Keep your fruit in plain sight. For every week of June there was a bowl of cherries on the table that we call my desk. It might be shocking to know that there are two desks…
Yesterday I posted a photograph of our plecanthrus going gang-busters, and a few of you asked about how our plants have fared with a toddler in the house. The short answer is that while Faye…
Tip #128: Indoor/Outdoor Houseplants. I’ve got a fickle relationship with my houseplants. On one hand, I want a house that’s filled up with green things. Life! Breath! Fresh air! On the other hand, too…
I hope you’ve come to expect it, really. This time of year practically begs for a weekly catalog of the blooming things and I’m nothing if not up for the challenge. First the crocuses,…
Tip #98: Keep your home office simple. I’ve alluded in the past to doing some of my work at home. In the past five years, as I’ve made my way through graduate school and…
Last week I spent a few days in San Francisco attending festivities taking place around the Remodelista book launch and holiday market, and generally cavorting with the “-istas” who live in California. On one morning,…
Tip #86: Holiday gift ideas.This year, I went tiny with my holiday decorating. Tiny trees with tiny lights because nothing else would do. More on that here.But today let’s talk a little about the…
Tip #82: Choose white sheets. Not all tiny apartments have tiny sleeping lofts, but some do, and even if yours doesn’t, unless you sleep on a futon or a murphy bed, there’s no way…
Tip# 80: Houseplants. Up there? The afternoon shadows that the plants on my windowsill cast onto my apartment wall. The tip? Fill your tiny apartment with houseplants. Mostly small ones. My very first apartment…