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How to Make a Felted Wool Ball Garland

Before the holidays I was over at my friend Tiffany’s apartment in Brooklyn. She had this amazing garland of wool balls hanging on her wall that she bought from a little shop. When I was home for Christmas, we got a little snowed in…

January 28, 2013
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NYC Apartment: Christmastime

Our (very little) NYC apartment, all cozy and decorated for Christmas. 🙂 This little 700-square-foot little place and I have spent a lot of time together over the past couple of months and I’m pretty happy with some of the things my roommates and…

December 12, 2012
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DIY Chevron Chairs

So when we first moved to our tiny NYC apartment, the three of us brought our own mismatched furniture, decor, and knickknacks. Over the past few months we’ve updated a few of these items to make the apartment more cohesive and put-together. These chairs…

December 10, 2012
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How to Paint a Couch

There’s a pretty specific type of couch that you can haul from Indiana to New York in a cargo van full of furniture, clothes, and stuff to furnish an apartment. There’s also a very specific type of couch that will allow three roommates in…

November 14, 2012
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DIY Wine Crate Kitchen Shelf

One night a few weeks ago, I was riding my scooter home off the subway and I noticed this wine crate outside of a liquor store near our apartment. In typical scrappy fashion, I picked up the crate and took it home, with no…

October 19, 2012
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DIY Decoupaged Night Stand

I’ve always been a student of slow decorating— more out of necessity and budgetary restrictions than anything. But these days I am starting to see that decorating slowly is a really fun proces. I’m the type of person who is a perpetual decorator– I’m…

September 26, 2012
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DIY Painted Geometric Dresser

Ok, so remember in one of my earlier posts about painting a filing cabinet I talked about this wonderful furniture graveyard at my old work in Indiana? In that same furniture scavenge, I also found an old (heavy) office cabinet. I thought it might…

September 13, 2012