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apartment

  • teaching an old dresser new tricks.

    Here’s a little lesson in teaching an old dog new tricks. Well, an old dresser anyway. My mom and dad helped us do a furniture swap a few weeks ago. They brought us this changing…

    May 8, 2014 13 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #102: Buy a quart of white paint. See what you can’t cover with it. Over the weekend, James and I tackled bébé’s closet—er, bedroom…er, changing area—oh, let’s just call it the baby’s space. It’s…

    April 30, 2014 12 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #101: Embrace messy projects.Here’s something that I think might not get talked about enough:Tiny apartments aren’t always picture perfect.I started this tiny apartment series on my blog just 8 days after moving in.…

    April 23, 2014 13 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #100: Don’t be afraid to display scrub brushes. Did you see that little number up there? 100 tips? Seems like a pretty big number for a blog about something so tiny, doesn’t it?…

    April 16, 2014 14 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #99: Shoe racks. This is more of an update than a tip. But if your closet is anything like ours, it just might be a tip. (Just remember that what works in my…

    April 9, 2014 13 Comments
  • baby proof.

    A new little sometimes-series for these tea leaves: proof I’m having a baby and musings on life in a tiny apartment, bébé in tow (or very nearly). Seems to me I can’t begin a…

    April 1, 2014 34 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    March 26, 2014 15 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #97: Don’t do everything at once. One more note on unpacking. And the hardest one for me to remember: Try to avoid making too many big changes in the first few weeks in…

    March 19, 2014 9 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #96: Set the bed up first. Another unpacking tip. Most of you guys are already experts at this (read the comments here if you don’t believe me), but my tried and true tip…

    March 12, 2014 14 Comments
  • painting furniture.

    For someone who can be eager to get rid of certain things, I develop fierce attachments to other things. And chalk it up to too much time spent in museums and studying about them,…

    March 10, 2014 38 Comments