Hi! I’m Quressa. Welcome to my Sweet Digs,
also known as my nerdy, geeky, Parisian chic home.
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I live in this three-story townhouse in
the Bronx with my husband Adrian. We purchased our home for $360,000,
and our mortgage is about $1,904 and some change a month. And we think it’s
like the perfect amount for the amount of space we have.
I am a literary agent, which a lot of people don’t know what I do until they do
and then they try to sell me their book.
The neighborhood we live in is the
South Bronx, specifically Morrisania. Even though it’s in New York, and it’s a
giant urban city, it’s kind of tranquil oasis
in the middle of a very busy, crazy city.
This is our kitchen. I love food a lot, so I don’t really have
one favorite, but I guess recently my favorite is cooking pork chops.
My husband on the other hand can make hot dogs, and hamburgers, and spaghetti.
We’re working on his culinary skills right now, so we’re trying to do a lot more
stuff together.
I love the kitchen. It does feel a little dated.
We’re thinking of changing the color of the cabinets.
either a blue of a grey color. What do you think?
Let us know in the comments.
This is our half bathroom.
One of the things you learn when you’re looking for any place, even if it’s an
apartment, is that sometimes you have to compromise. And I really, really wanted
two full bathrooms, but I had to settle for one full bathroom and half bath.
I sort of miss it, but I don’t miss it enough that I would have changed.
This is our dining area and our living room.
So, I really love gold if you haven’t noticed, and so I really wanted
to find a decanter set that matched my style.
So, I found one that had gold polka dots, and it’s the decanter with glasses.
I wanted to have the kind of “Mad Men” set up that Don Draper does,
and with my job, day drinking is sometimes necessary cause when you
get bad news sometimes you wanna take a drink.
The couch that we have is the first grown up thing that my husband and I
bought together. We decided that we wanted to spend a good chunk of money
on a piece of furniture and it ended up being our couch.
So, one of the sentimental items I have in the living room is the photo from
our honeymoon. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan,
we decided to plan part of our honeymoon trip to the Harry Potter studio in London.
We didn’t actually realize that we were near the 9 ¾ Station. And so, we
decided to take a picture there. Me repping House Slytherin,
and him being a Hufflepuff.
We decided to buy a house,
because we kind of just were tired of being in an apartment, tired of being
beholden to a landlord, and I tend to be the kind of person that when I decide to
make a decision on something then I make a decision on something
and make it happen. And so, I decided we should buy a house,
and so we bought a house.
This is our backyard.
I would love, love, love, love to repave our backyard.
One of the things that happens is weeds keep popping up.
So, it’d be nice if all of this was paved, except for our tree.
And I’d absolutely love, love, LOVE a hot tub back here.
I am originally from San Francisco, so I grew up in a townhouse similar
to this one.
When I first walked into this house it
felt like the house I grew up in. And I think that was one of the deciding
factors in us making an offer on it.
This is our master bedroom.
I like for my home to feel, especially the bedroom,
to feel like a hotel. Hotels tend to stay white, and so
I wanted to have that hotel feel here in my room, and that’s why I have
a white comforter set.
So, I have a female empowerment section
in my room. And because, I like geeky stuff, they are all women
mainly from comic books. I like having it above here, so that when
I wake up in the morning, and I’m getting ready, it kind of gives me like the
strength and the power I need to start the day.
Here’s our full bathroom.
I do the 10-Step Korean Skincare Routine.
I only kind of do seven steps, but because I kept forgetting the order, I wrote it
all down on this list here by the sink so I can remember.
The worst part of my apartment is this pink tile in both bathrooms,
like I just don’t like pink in general, but it just feels so wrong
to have pink tile.
This is our guest bedroom.
I’m really excited for it to be used for the first time when my husband’s
family comes in August.
This is a small bedroom slash
my office with my convertible sit-stand desk.
The hope is that one day this room will not just be my office,
but will also be a baby room.
This is the basement.
Over here we have our gym area. In the back is my husband’s “man area".
Not quite a cave, but that’s kind of where he hangs out. It’s one of our older couches
from our apartment before we bought our fancy couch.
And then next to the gym area is my library. I love reading, so I don’t
quite have a favorite book. My favorite book lasts as long as
I’m reading the book, but that’s also why
I really wanted to have a library. I fell in love with books a long time ago,
I think probably when I was in kindergarten, and have been reading
frequently ever since.
The reason the chairs are facing each other is that so that
when we have a disagreement we can actually sit
face-to-face and talk it out. Having been together for twelve years,
we’ve learned that it’s important for communication to read
the other person’s body language.
I would describe our homestyle as very
kind of geeky, nerdy, Parisian chic. You can see all my nerdy accoutrements
around. My lightsaber is up there somewhere.
I love anime. I grew up watching it, Sailor Moon was one of the first anime
I fell in love with.
The Bronx is really great because it’s
like this burrow that’s in New York and it feels really peaceful, and you can hear
the birds chirping outside, which is like very tranquil. And it feels great to be in
this big house where I can hop on the subway and like go to the Met, or the
National History Museum, but I have a house where it’s quiet.
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