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  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #81: How to host a baby in a tiny apartment. First of all: this post is not be confused with the one-day post of how to have a baby in a tiny apartment. Hold…

    October 2, 2013 7 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    September 25, 2013 3 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #79: Purge often. Pack it up, pack it in, etc. Believe me when I say you don’t have room to hang on to socks without toes or sweatshirts with grease stains ten years…

    September 18, 2013 14 Comments
  • life in a tiny 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…

    September 11, 2013 16 Comments
  • come on in, the water’s fine.

    Hints, lately. I realize you’ve been getting a lot of them. Little pieces of stories rather than the whole thing. But every once in a while, I’m finding the time to share the good…

    September 9, 2013 37 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    September 4, 2013 34 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    August 28, 2013 54 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    August 21, 2013 17 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    July 31, 2013 7 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    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…

    July 24, 2013 17 Comments