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  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #127: Find Tiny Storage Solutions.People ask me an awful lot how I manage to stay organized in a small space. Usually my answer is that I stay organized in a small space in…

    July 15, 2015 12 Comments
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    Tip #126: Dress your windows, minimally. I’ll come right out and say that I don’t think that window dressings are always necessary. But more than that, sometimes I think they can be more harmful…

    July 8, 2015 16 Comments
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    Tip #125: Give yourself five minutes to make a teeny tiny fix.  On the face of it, this is a post wherein I encourage you to trim a little piece of paper down to…

    June 24, 2015 11 Comments
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    Tip #124: Consider ruglessness. We vacuum our apartment almost every single day. On any given day there’s an army of minuscule squatters taking up residence on our floors. They take the form of shriveled…

    June 17, 2015 18 Comments
  • life in a tiny apartment.

    Tip #123: It’s hip to be square. Or, consider a square table for a tiny space. To be clear, this is a tip for small spaces, not teeny tiny spaces. Sometimes I hesitate to…

    June 10, 2015 25 Comments
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    Tip #122: Skip the coffee table. We don’t own a coffee table. We had one in our very first apartment in North Carolina—a funky little table that a neighbor gave us for free. It…

    June 3, 2015 32 Comments
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    Tip #121: Unmake your bed. No, under make your bed. Makeunder your bed? I get a lot of questions from readers about how to make a bed. Not the pulling up of sheets and tucking…

    May 20, 2015 43 Comments
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    Tip #120: On Scaling Up and Living Large. Last Thursday, my dad came into the city to hang out with Faye. While she dozed in the afternoon, we used his fancy-schmancy Leica Disto Lazer…

    May 6, 2015 15 Comments
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    Tip #119: Ditch the couch. Get a cot. (Do what you wanna.) We recently decided to shake things up a bit around here and go couchless. Not exactly couchless, but one couch less. I’ll explain:…

    April 29, 2015 17 Comments
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    Tip #118: Swap the lights. As you’ve probably grasped, my general approach to living in a rental apartment tends toward making as few drastic changes as possible. (In case you need a reminder about…

    March 4, 2015 37 Comments