today we're going to show you what approximately 2 500 a month gets you in new york versus london
then we're going to compare the similarities and differences between apartments in the two world
cities you don't want to miss this let's begin with my apartment in park slope brooklyn now
we're 15 minutes by subway to manhattan there's a lot of restaurants shopping and brownstones
tons of brownstones this apartment is part of a house where every single unit takes up an entire
floor now we did film an apartment tour one year ago right after we moved in but we've made a lot
of changes we didn't have this when we filmed the last tour and for a new york city apartment
absolute lifesaver because probably in london too space is a premium so we put all our shoes in here
and you could fit eight different pairs
and you put keys and other stuff up top as well i don't even know where this came from but it came
we paid 2 500 a month in park slope the apartment is about 600 square feet we've been here over a
year now so i think we've made it feel more like home adriana was really big on having little
lights everywhere and i think it adds a cute touch to the apartment part of our old apartment in the
village this is a lot of space to prepare food it's not like a humongous kitchen i would say by
american standards but by new york city standards i actually think this is a really nice size
and this is probably our biggest room in the apartment right yeah i think in the village i
used to cook in a space that was this big and that was all the space i had i have here and
all these space but i have to say i think i keep using the same little space because i got used to
it i've been to friends apartments in london before uh we do not have an electric kettle
i've heard that british people prefer tea to coffee so we've just got a keurig and
lots and lots of coffee we consume tons of it one of the great things about having an artist as a
wife is she has decorated most of the apartment and we made a really cool switch right here yeah
now we have the three most iconic food in new york city the pizza the bagel and pastrami sandwich so
i painted these ones and i think they're cute so this is my little office it has everything
i need a desk with a nice view of a back jar i can't believe i have a window in my desk i
didn't even have a proper studio in your apartment and i have a bookshelf with all my art supplies
and this little card with my prints and everything i sell on my etsy so it's really nice and i like
to spend a lot of time here last video we made we actually got a lot of compliments about the
bathroom and i mean the owner of this apartment did a fantastic job just everything about it we
have a nice walk-in shower here which is really cool and we did add this eventually this is a nice
little product having a speaker in the shower so i could sync my spotify to whatever music i want
and i can sing if i want and no one will ever hear me but not the biggest bathroom on earth but it
gets the job done i've got some space down here we have a little cabinet there i get video ideas
sometimes i just look at this map of new york city and i'm like um where haven't i covered yet the
living room setup has changed a bit since our last video she did a nice like autumn motif here we
have the pumpkins we have the the leaves with the little lights even has the pumpkin i guess we're
going to be shifting to like holiday mode soon the last video i explained how we tried getting
a three-seat couch up the stairs but we didn't pivot pivot pivot i got so many friends jokes
so we had to get two separate pieces which actually worked out really well especially when
we have guests because it can be kind of awkward if you have three people sitting all in a row this
way we could turn and talk more this was one of the best purchases we ever made off a wayfarer
got to thank my mom for giving me this idea because i wanted a sectional couch that had the
leg sticking out like this but it would take up too much walking space so unless i'm here relaxing
watching tv you know i just close it up if space is at a premium a reclining couch is amazing and
more of adriana's artwork actually all of this is available on her etsy shop if you're interested
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pocket doors there's pros and cons to this the pro is you can have this open layout and it's
an easy way to you know block out people seeing into here the con is they're not that noise proof
so if someone's watching tv really loudly and i'm here i can usually pick it up now i don't
know about london but this is something that i think is really brooklyn style especially
this part of brooklyn park slope fireplace it's decorative right now now in the previous video
we had books in here now i've decided to put a plant adriana has an army of stuffed animals we
never liked having a headboard if you're in an apartment where the room isn't that big
so if you paint a headboard like this it looks like you have a headboard and is decorative but
it doesn't take away any space and we actually kept our full-size bed from the village now people
have asked us well why don't you get a queen-size bed we could even get a king in here in theory but
i just like having the extra space also we cuddle a lot so i'm probably gonna cut that
got these lamps off amazon love it because you could tap once tap twice tap three off i'm not
sure if i spend more time sleeping in that bed or sitting at this computer editing videos and
doing other tasks related to my youtube channel and having two different windows that i can look
out of onto a beautiful street in brooklyn it's so good for my mental health the most useful room
in this apartment is by far the walk-in closet because you can store tons of stuff here we have
three different shelves full of clothes we built in other shelves here as well we filled up all the
top i'm married so she takes up most of the space i have some space here but yeah it's like somebody
once told me that no matter how much space you get you will always find a way to fill it up
no truer words have ever been spoken because this room has been a disaster before now for those
watching in the uk i know air conditioning is not a big thing over there we do have a portable ac
if you have one of those window units to store them it's such a pain in the butt but these don't
take up that much space just throw it into the walk-in closet we need air conditioning here in
new york city in the summer unless you live in a newer building you're gonna have one of these
loud steam heaters and anyone who's ever lived in new york knows exactly what i'm talking about
let's see how the other half does it across the pond jess dante from lovin london youtube channel
take it away hi guys i'm just dante from the youtube channel love and london and i am an ex-new
yorker who now lives in london and have been here for eight years and i'm going to give you a tour
of my 1 500 pound a month flat here in east london i was really lucky to get this flat at the price
that i did it had a bit of a coveted discount to it we didn't have as much kova discounting as
we saw over in new york but east london is really great because it has so much to do it's diverse
there's a lot of different communities of people here i think it's the equivalent of
maybe living in like astoria in queens not in manhattan that would be central london
so let's start with the living room slash dining room slash kitchen it all just kind of flows in i
think the focal point of this is my blue velvet sofa which i got from this really interesting
shop called lofties they sell x showroom and like slightly damaged furniture from some of the big
what's called high street furniture brands here in the uk and you get them at a discount by the
way if you're american you'll notice i have said flat we usually say flat here in the uk versus
apartment i've been very proud to have my little desk space here which is where i
work about three or four days a week doing everything for love and london
these chairs came from somebody off facebook marketplace who was moving and didn't need
them anymore and actually this little thing i don't know actually what it is but i got this at
what's called a car boot sale which is basically a garage sale but people will drive their cars up
and a boot is the back of the car that opens up so people will open up the back of their car and
sell stuff out of it and then the kitchen i think it's fairly self-explanatory i love lemons so i
bought these lemon prints off of etsy hung those up something that i really wanted to
have and i feel like maybe isn't as popular in some new york apartments is a dishwasher
before i moved into this flat i didn't have access to a dishwasher for about six months
during lockdown and i found it so difficult so as soon as i moved in here i was so thankful for this
i'm still very thankful for it it's just like also something that's quite common in the uk especially
in smaller spaces like this is that you have the washing machine in the kitchen now that i've been
here for eight years i've definitely come to appreciate having tea basically all of the time
and one thing that we have here that i never had in the u.s which because they're really not much
of a thing in the us is an electric kettle it's basically where you put water in it and then you
just flip the switch and it heats up the water to boiling and that's what basically everyone in the
uk uses to be able to make themselves tea so as i mentioned before this is a one bedroom apartment
and i think that this bedroom is actually a pretty good size for london we are known for having quite
small apartments but not as small as new york something that is at a premium when it's comes
to london flats is having wardrobe space or having closet space very similar to new york i know that
so the fact that i even have a built-in closet here is huge and i'm very very thankful for it
otherwise most people in london will get a wardrobe that you put in yourself and get
from like ikea these prints above the bed took me so long to find and then i ordered them from
a local seller off etsy pretty good size actually for london bathrooms and london flats something
that's really common in the us but not that common here but i actually have it is a shower curtain
because most places that you would rent here would have a glass shower door and one thing that i do
have that's very common in the uk but not so much at all in the us is a towel warmer i don't think
i've been to any place in the uk that didn't have a towel warmer just turn it on and pop your towels
onto it and it warms them up and dries them much faster than they usually would one other thing
i'll show you that i feel like is quite european is having two flushing buttons over the toilet one
of them is a smaller one and that is um basically where you use less water so it preserves water and
the bigger one is for when you need bigger flushes and i'll let your imagination decide why you would
need one over the other favorite part of this flat is my balcony which unfortunately i can't show you
because it does make it very easy to figure out basically exactly where i live but my balcony is
not very big but it's a lovely little space where i can sit outside in the mornings when it's nice
out and have my tea and i do feel like it's easier to get flats here with outdoor space than it is
in new york make sure to subscribe to jesse's channel for all things london now tell me in
the comments what are the differences between apartments in new york and apartments in london
i am really curious what you all thought thank you so much for watching as always until next time