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Allow me to explain myself
I think it’s about time to come clean about something. Over the past year and a half, give or take, I’ve developed a little problem. I can’t stop buying lighting. Including the hallway, there are nine...
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Mantle Things
There are real problems, and then there are fancy problems. Real problems are things like meth addictions and getting hit by buses. Those might be bad examples because yeah, maybe you did do the meth...
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Dresser
You have rented a Zipcar and conned your boyfriend into accompanying you on a great schlep out to Long Island. You were supposed to meet Crystal, let’s call her, at 7 pm. But now it’s two hours later,...
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Hallway: Part 1
Our apartment was still occupied when Max and I came to view it for the first time with the broker. He led us up to the fifth floor (although I later swore with certainty that it was the...
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Hallway: Part 2
As we have previously established: 1. We have a ridiculously long and narrow hallway in our apartment. It has many weird twists, turns, and angles. 2. This hallway was very ugly and very smelly and...
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Going Rogue: A Story of Betrayal and Componibili.
First of all——PHEW, my first giveaway ever for Ferm Living Shop took in 734 comments! Lunacy! The winner was chosen at random and a big congratulations to Nancy M. is in order! Yay, Nancy! Now, if you...
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Dresser Restoration
Sometimes, I can’t explain why I do the things I do and why I choose a particular moment to do them in, particularly when drugs or alcohol are not contributing factors. Why did I put in that late-night...
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Winter Times
Remember that stuff I said about tons of things getting done around the apartment while I was on break from school and work? Which has been for the last two weeks? Yeah. That hasn’t really happened...
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Stopgap Measures in the Kitchen
I’ve never really been a fan of stopgap measures when it comes to renovating and decorating. If I have some sort of grand vision for a space that will take a while to accomplish, it’s just not in my...
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New Hallway Light!
When I set about redoing the hallway a while ago, the biggest point of uncertainty was always the lighting. We started out with matching boob lights throughout, and that just wasn’t going to work in...
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Bathroom Light
So remember back in November when we did a super quick, super intense, super kick-ass makeover of Max’s childhood bedroom? And we bought that rad 1920s light fixture that totally made the room? Yeah....
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New Desk!
When I was young, my parents became possessed of the notion that we needed to have all of our personalities tested. There wasn’t anything terribly dysfunctional about my family—at least not more so...
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The Kitchen has a New Floor!
One of the more perpetually hilarious/depressing things about looking at apartments in New York is seeing the ways that landlords try to get creative when renovating and preparing a unit for the next...
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Adventures in Vignetting
Some things I could stand to be better at: 1. Dressing myself. 2. Cooking. 3. Saving money. 4. Waking up in the mornings. 5. Eating breakfast. 6. Eating lunch. 7. Going to sleep. 8. E-mails. 9....
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Desk Drawer Redo!
I guess there are certain things you’re supposed to do when moving to a new place, and there are very few places where these conventions are more entrenched than on college campuses. When I got to...
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The Kitchen Begins!
In the movies, let’s say, there’s this whole idea of what buying a house is like, particularly an old house. It always culminates with that sticky-sweet moment where the couple turns the key, walks in...
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Safe Haven: The Bedroom!
One of the weirder things about our home renovation is that we came here with very little stuff. There was some spill-over from the apartment——a few little things I’d been saving——but by and large,...
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The Kitchen: The big reveal!
BOOM. Bet you were expecting a big block of text at the beginning of this post? Like about how this “little stop-gap quick n’ dirty” kitchen renovation spiraled completely out of control and took way...
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MINE: Vintage Rosewood Credenza
It started off all casual-like and innocent. I was sitting on my sofa in Brooklyn, checking my email. I noticed one from a reader——we’ll call her Priscilla, because her name is Priscilla——informing me...
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The Guest Bedroom is Like a Real Room and Stuff.
One of my favorite rooms in our whole house is what I’m sure was originally a nursery. It’s very small, on the corner of the second floor, and accessible from both the hallway and the main...
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