Ideas for a Beautiful & Smart Home
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My first closet was 30 inches wide, one rod, one shelf, and a light bulb that worked when it felt like it. For two years I managed it by what I called “the avalanche method”:…
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For almost two years, my front door doubled as a shoe avalanche. I’d come home, kick off whatever I was wearing, and then step over the pile every single morning like it was a normal…
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The first apartment I ever rented had a front door that did not fully lock unless you lifted the handle and shoved with your hip. I knew about it on move-in day. I told myself…
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The night I moved into my first apartment, I had a mattress on the floor, four boxes of books, and no idea where my keys were. I also had a set of twelve wine glasses…
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Within 48 hours of moving into my first apartment, I had locked myself out, set off the smoke alarm making toast, and learned that the neighbor upstairs did laundry at 11 p.m. with what sounded…
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The first time I hosted a friend overnight in my studio, I handed her what I’d been calling “the guest bed”: a sofa bed I’d bought secondhand because it was cheap and “good enough.” At…
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My first apartment had a coat closet the width of a refrigerator and a bedroom closet I generously call “a suggestion.” Within a month my winter boots lived under the couch, my towels lived in…
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I once bought a “compact” sofa bed that turned out to be compact in exactly one way: the photo. In real life it took up half my living room, the mattress was about as thick…
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My first curtains went up exactly where every instruction sheet told me to put them: right on top of the window frame, panels the same width as the glass, hem hovering about six inches above…
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For my first four months working from home, my “office” was the couch with a laptop balanced on a pillow. By week three my lower back hurt, by week six I couldn’t tell when work…
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