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Springy Weekend

By on April 13, 2008 in Apartment, Weekend Adventures

Springy Weekend
It was an absolutely beautiful weekend and I got very itchy with the spring cleaning bug. We’re still about half way through with all the rearranging, or I would have taken more pictures. Saturday was, much to my pleasure, nearly in the 80′s, which allowed me to open up all the windows and really air out the apartment. As you can see, more painting happened (I shall post the final product in a few minutes), Jack made a wonderful breakfast, we moved the couch into the bedroom, and worked on expanding the office area. We did end up going to a friend’s birthday party, but, it was, for the most part, just a productive weekend staying in.

Springy Weekend
Springy Weekend

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I’ve never felt this way about a radiator before.

By on March 28, 2008 in Apartment, Art & Design

Droog Design's Radiator
Wow, i would love to to be the owner of one or two of these. Not only are they stunning, but they’re probably much much more effective at that whole heating thing, than our terrible tiny P.O.S. radiators.

The Heatwave Radiator is designed by Joris Laarman, a young designer from Utrecht. It is composed of heating pipe with fiberglass reinforced concrete and is manufactured and sold by Droog Design. Due to it’s design and enlarged surface area, the Heatwave conducts heat far better than a traditional metal radiator or floor heating. It’s so nice, we are worried we will want to touch it all the time.

Via Apartment Therapy

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*Whisles* Nice trash can!

By on February 27, 2008 in Apartment, Art & Design, Shopping


I’ve been looking for something like this: color-coded, tall, thin trash cans, that make it easy to separate everything out. We’re currently doing it the old fashioned way, and it’s less than esthetically pleasing. But, at $140 each, why do I have to have such expensive taste!?

From Unica Home, Found at Apartment Therapy

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Lazy Sunday Morning

By on February 24, 2008 in Apartment, Crafts, Music

musical survey
Did a little music survey about a year ago and I thought it would be fun to do it again, now, and compare. iTune did change how they organize things so last year’s results may seem a little odd in comparison. (Yea, there’s an audiobook listed amongst the music, oh well.)

We haven’t even come close to really getting into my little-more-than-minor obsession with music; hopefully, we shall delve into that more later.

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrasing it is.

How many songs: 7096 (previous answer: 3553)

Sort by artist…
First artist: A-ha (previous answer: ‘N sync)
Last artist: !!! (previous answer: Zzzz)

Sort by song title…
First Song: A-Punk – Vampire Weekend (previous answer: ‘En Gallop’ – Joanna Newsom)
Last Song: 2080 – Yeasayer (previous answer: Ziplock Bag – Beck)

Sort by time…
Shortest Song: Brak laughing – Cartoon Planet, 0:01 (previous answer: Brak laughing – Cartoon Planet, 0:01)
Longest Song: Disc 15 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 1:17:56 (previous answer: Disturbulence Mix – Fairy Bit, 40:46)

Sort by album…
First Album: Aaliyah – Aaliyah (previous answer: ! – The Dismemberment Plan)
Last Album: † – Justice (previous answer: Zerospace – Kidney Theives)

First song that comes up on Shuffle: This Book is a Movie – Spoon (previous answer: Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel)

How many songs come up when you search for “sex”? 49 (previous answer: 35)

How many songs come up when you search for “love”? 375 (previous answer: 186)

How many songs come up when you search for “you”? 747 (previous answer: 339)

How many songs come up when you search for “why”? 21 (previous answer: 10)

What artist do you have the most songs by, and how many? The Beatles, 453 (previous answer: of Montreal, 171)

updated table
Also, I wanted to give a small pictorial update on our cardboard furnishings.

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New cardboard table

By on February 18, 2008 in Apartment, Art & Design, Crafts


Just got back from a wonderfully long weekend (more on that later). I scrapped that other table I was working on. It was getting clunky, ugly and I just couldn’t gather up the motivation to fix how it was leaning oddly to the side. I very happy with this new idea. It’s so easy to put together, it looks pretty cool, and it uses all these empty boxes we’ve have just sitting around.

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Love Me, Love My Apartment

By on February 15, 2008 in Apartment, New York

Real estate in New York City has a way of looming large in matters of the heart.

Some couples move in together rather quickly just because a lease has run out. Some can’t decide who moves where because neither wants to give up a good deal on an apartment. Others make the leap and marry because they fear that a co-op board will reject them if they are just living together. And there are people who rule out potential partners simply because of where they live.

Via The New York Times

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The Apt

By on February 11, 2008 in Apartment, Art & Design, Crafts



1. Side Table made from USPS boxes | 2. Audry Hepburn silhouette made from postal stickers
3. “All is full of love” poster, paper from flower shop | 4. “Follow your Bliss” poster, cloth, hand stitched


The W.I.P.s
1. Jack’s chair and shelves | 2. My entry-way table
As mentioned in a previous post, we are decorating our apartment out of cardboard and other found materials.

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