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  • Getting settled.

    Sorry to leave you with those yelling goats for so long! Friday was our big Brooklyn moving day. We said goodbye to DUMBO and hello (again) to Cobble Hill. The two neighborhoods…

  • Please meet my kitchen work table.

    After our yellow stools arrived, Evan and I moved our kitchen island—the GROLAND from IKEA, which we’ve had pushed up against a side wall in the kitchen for the past 7 years—to…

  • Birch log bundles, just for show.

    Okay, so maybe putting decorative logs in a non-wood-burning fireplace doesn’t make sense. Yes, I know it’s silly. But I don’t care. Look how cute! Birch logs! Bundled! With rope handles! Stacked!…

  • The kitchen has been painted!

    I painted the kitchen this weekend, and yes, I got just as bold and crazy with my color choice as you’d expect: GRAY. Valspar’s Filtered Shade, to be specific, in a matte…

  • How about we try this again, Brooklyn?

    Just about a year ago, Evan and I rented an apartment in DUMBO. It was the first time we’d lived in Brooklyn since we relocated to upstate New York nine years ago,…

  • Kitchen lighting and shelving.

    Now that the kitchen tiling is about 85% done (I can’t finish until the radiators are disconnected in the spring), I’ve started making final decisions about the lighting and shelving that we’ll…

  • Kitchen tiling madness!

    I had grand visions for my end-of-year vacation: I was going to catch up on emails, clean the house from top to bottom, watch movies, spend time with Evan and the dogs,…

  • Another side of the (not) “new” apartment.

    I realized last night (upon receiving lease renewal forms) that it’s already been 10 months since we rented “the new apartment” in Brooklyn. Whaaaat?! I don’t really understand how it’s been almost…

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