Village People

Our new apartment is slowly but surely-ish starting to resemble a home! That is, I spent a considerable number of hours this past weekend listening to  techno music and furiously arranging my pretty-and-useless-flea-market-crap/color-coding my Equipment button downs.

So, although our couch has yet to arrive and we have been living without internet and cable for 9 days now (things one can accomplish when living for 9 days without internet and cable: finishing two books, actually reading the NY Times Sunday Section cover to cover, long telephone conversations with ones mom, unpacking of all of ones and ones roommates worldly-ish belongings, and going out every night because…what else is there to do?), my closet and every shelf/wall/surface in our apartment look excellent.

More importantly, we have been exploring the neighborhood that has very rapidly become my favorite in New York. I have discovered slash become a regular at: a cash-only-amazing-coffee-shop that already knows my order, a consignment shop that also already knows my order, a BYOB sushi place, a 24 hour restaurant with food that actually tastes good, a bar that I want to frequent with my girlfriends, a bar that I want to frequent with my boyfriends, a bar where I want to meet my boyfriends (as if I’d tell), a bar where boyfriends meet their boyfriends, and then some.

Highlights:

[The view from our roof]

[Decor shopping]

[Decor shopping Swedish meatball detour]

[A new subway stop]

[Matzoh Ball soup & a good book]

[Things coming together]

[Street scenes]

[Fun mottos]

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Movin’ Out

I’m moving this weekend! I have actually moved 7 times over the past 7 years (each year of college, and each year thereafter), and I believe I finally have the art down to a precise, two-step science: 1) Hire professionals, and 2) Throw out all your shit.

While I’d love to say I’ve made significant headway on the actual moving process, I’ve instead been focusing on menu-stalking the best places to eat next to my new East Village digs, trying to figure out how to fit all my belongings into a closet one third the size of my current one, and endlessly poring over Pinterest home decor to decide how to furnish our new pad. Having lived with a male for the past 10 months (ladies: live with a male. It’s so freaking easy), I’ve had to keep the feminine touches to a minimum, so I’m excited to bust out the girly pieces I’ve been hiding in my parents’ garage.

Until then, I know of a few projects I’d like to get started on for the new crib (has anyone else been really into Arts & Crafts lately? I think it’s a back-to-school thing).

Inspiration:

I. Gallery Wall

[Striped wallpaper and frames in different shades]

[A girlier take. I would love a bright gallery wall like this in our living room]

II. Animal Throw Rug

[Animal rug to go with my authentic-shot-and-mounted-by-my-Siberian-grandfather-antlers (sorry, PETA. And I freakin' love fur]

[A more subdued take on the animal rug trend]

III. Kitchen Chalkboard 

[Perfect for menu-planning, or if you use your oven for shoe storage a la Carrie Bradshaw/myself, listing out restaurants you'd like to try]

[Take two. I love everything about this industrial-looking space. If only I cooked...]

For the first time, I can actually imagine staying in my apartment for more than a year, and I couldn’t be more excited to make my crappy little 700 square foot house a home.