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…
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…
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.…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…