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…
Tip #78: Remove the closet doors, hang a curtain instead. It’s been my experience in rental apartments that doors that have been added to closets are typically of the cheap variety. Installed as a…
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 #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…
I sometimes get a little misty-eyed for country life. All those fresh flowers and roadside stands and wide open spaces. But when it comes down to it, I love this city too much to…
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…