Hi! My name is Clemence.
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I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with my partner, and we pay $3,150 a month.
We get a lot of amenities.
It’s newly furnished.
So, I think it’s kinda of worth it, even though it still hurts to pay that
much money.
The old apartment is technically bigger than this one, but it was so narrow that
you didn’t actually have that much space to work with.
So, moving into a newly renovated building was a big improvement.
This is the kitchen.
When we first moved here, the whole back wall was covered.
So, we asked them to remove it and actually expose the wood that we
thought was really beautiful.
But, the downside to that is that it exposed everything because that’s
the only storage we have.
So, what we did was decant everything; quinoa, rice, coffee, you name it.
This keeps everything organized and clean.
A thing that I really like about this apartment is that there’s more room to
entertain guests, which I didn’t have the luxury to do in the last place.
I’m half Persian, so a big thing in our culture is hosting and having, you know,
guests over.
So, I just have more counter-space to cook and prep.
I’m kinda of living that side of me a little bit more here.
And my plants seem to really like it here.
And this is the dining area, and the living room.
I really like the dining table.
It was really, really difficult to get a narrow, oak table, but I found one for
about $200 on Overstock.
And then this couch, that I really, really like, from Interior Design.
We had it custom made to the dimensions of the apartment.
I watch a lot of movies.
So, I’m here a lot of the times.
I run a recommendation website for women called Passerbuys, as well as co-founded a
film festival for female filmmakers called the Female Filmmakers Festival.
With Passerbuys, I wanted to create a platform where people would share what
books they’re reading, what music they’re listening to, or how did they get that job.
I think that was kinda the ethos with Passerbuys, and just making it as
resourceful as possible.
So, this is the bathroom.
There’s not much going on here, but I really like the shower curtain by
Parachute. Some linen. Real nice.
I keep the bathroom pretty minimal as well.
Similar to the bedroom.
And the bedroom!
I went with a minimalist approach for the bedroom just because there wasn’t
much space to work with.
Having less furniture, playing with a neutral palette; beige, whites, kinda helps
open up the bedroom.
Personally, the bed frame, I’m just a huge fan of Floyd Furniture, so that’s
kinda why I went with this low bed frame.
In terms of the other furniture, the side tables are from Amazon.
The bench; it’s really good as well cause it’s really narrow, is from Ikea.
And it’s always good to have some dead flowers too for decoration.
When decorating this home, I was actually inspired by a lot of artist
studios, specifically the Brancusi Studio in Paris, and Pinterest has also been
super helpful for that.
So, we have a walk-in closet, which is pretty exciting for me because in the
last apartment we had to store most of our clothing in suitcases.
The walk-in closet is still a little small, but we found a solution by going to the
Container Store and doing their closet system.
So, what we did is that we sent pictures of the closet completely empty to the
Container Store, and they mocked up some designs, and how to efficiently
use the space.
They sent a couple of options.
We approved this one.
Something they utilized is the high ceilings.
We have 2 corners.
One for me and one for my partner.
Everything fits.
No longer need to put things in a suitcase.
This place is pretty much a dream apartment, but I think by
New York standards.
In terms of my next dream apartment, I think having more space would be great.
It’s only one bedroom, so it’s pretty limited if you’re living with a partner,
but we make do.
Especially since it’s pretty minimalistic, there’s more room for things.
But yeah, I think ideally it would be great to have more space, and then it would be
pretty perfect.
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