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inside of our new New York City apartment! So, if you recently watched my
Apartment Search Story video on YouTube, you know that finding this space was a
bit of a long time coming... We were rejected from two previous apartments
before we finally got this one. We're just renting so we don't own this space,
but we are really excited because it's our first two bedroom apartment together.
And it's also our first newlywed apartment! So we're getting married very
soon... and this is the space we're going to be coming home to after we get
married. I just got the keys to this new space today, so this is my first day in
here... so it's completely empty and bare. Bear with me on the echoey sound because
there are 12 foot ceilings and wooden floors... so it's definitely
an echoey space when there's no furniture... But I wanted to do this apartment tour
and show you what the space looks like completely raw with nothing inside.
Because we haven't designed it yet, and we haven't gotten our furniture, and I would
love some of your suggestions. So I'm going to tell you kind of what we're
thinking and what we want to put in each space... but I would love if you could
comment below as we go, and let me know if you have any other ideas. So, just to
orient you, we are in downtown Manhattan and this is a two-bedroom apartment. It's
about 1,200 square feet, but it's kind of difficult to determine exactly how many
square feet it is because it's such an interesting layout... The entire apartment
is a triangle, and as you will see, a lot of the spaces are very angular... so it's
difficult to determine the exact square footage... but it's around 1200. So let's
just get started at the top of the tour! So when you first walk into the space
and you come through the door, you'll see that there's a really cool light fixture
right over the door... It kind of looks like a honeycomb, and it's got black and
gold accents... Very pretty. Next, you'll see these double door closets to your left.
One thing you'll notice about all of the closets, and honestly all of the cabinets
in the entire apartment, are that they're two stories high. So because this is
a 12 foot tall space... all of the closets have a second story of closets on top of
them... Which is why you'll notice that the absolute only piece of furniture in this
apartment right now is this lovely stepladder. This is going to be the only
way we can get to all of our cabinets and closets.
So, now once you're in the entry space, you'll see if you turn left here,
you're in this little triangular nook. This is kind of just an entry space... It
has a lot of natural light. It makes it so that the moment you walk into the
apartment, you really get blasted with the sunlight, which we love. Our plan
right now is to put three bookcases up against this wall... And we want to put the
really tall bookcases that screw into the wall, so that we don't have to worry about
them tipping over... And then we currently have a white desk in our apartment that
we do a lot of work at and all that... and even though we do have a second bedroom
which is designated as our office, we are going to put a desk with a little desk
chair right under this window. So that's our plan for this space... And as you can
see, it's just a big empty triangle. Just the shape I love... Now, let's go in to the
second bedroom / the office. Closets, closets, closets... Okay. So, we're in the
second bedroom. This is a very small room. I don't know how big it looks
on camera, but I believe it's eight feet across by 10 feet that way... We're putting
some sort of a futon here, and we would love for it to be a really pretty color...
and maybe put some stick on wallpaper on the wall behind us so that
we can accentuate the colors... And then on the wall to the right when you walk in,
we're gonna put some sort of a leaning desk...
This really is designated as the office space, so we want to make sure we can
do our work in here but also have a couch that turns into a bed so that
guests can stay over. As you'll notice in this room as well as the other bedroom
and the living room, this apartment has no central air... So there are
air-conditioning units in the window, and these units have a specific remote that
you can use to control them to turn them on when you're not right next to them. Another
thing I love about the second bedroom is that there's this bookcase right
behind you, and it's built right into the wall.
So, we have so many books and although we are assembling those bookcases out in
the entry hall... this is really helpful too for us.
So our other plan for this room is... probably over here along this window... we
just want to fill the space with plants and greenery, and make it super bright and
colorful in here. So, this is where I'm going to leave all of my production
equipment... all of my lights, cameras, lenses... and plants. So, now that we saw the second
bedroom, let me show you the second bathroom.
Let's go. Oh, and these are the closets in here. So once again, two levels of closets...
I can show you what's in it now... but it's basically just all of my stuff from today
that I'm trying to hide from this video... Okay, okay, okay, you've seen enough.
And once I have my handy-dandy stepladder here, I'll be able to open this... And
this will be great for storing things like luggage, and also for storing summer
clothes when it's winter... or winter clothes when it's summer. All right. To
the second bathroom! So, this is our guest bathroom... I'm going in. The bathrooms are
both kind of small... but I love them because they're just very simple. My
favorite color palette is marble white and very light wood... There's a
toilet that flushes really loudly... I wish I had to pee so I could show you. Maybe
I'll show you later... And our second bathroom is where the
bathtub is. So if you come here you can see we've got a tub, and then we have a
nice shower head... and it's just overall a nice little second bathroom. I would use
it as a first bathroom, but I already have one.
Now we're back in that entry hall where we first walked in... So what you're seeing
behind me is my favorite view of the entire apartment. It really shows you the
angular nature of the space, and if you look really closely you can see that
tucked off to the right is the kitchen... and all the way straight down the lane
up ahead of you is the living room. So now I'm going to take you into the
kitchen... This is my favorite room in the entire apartment. Welcome to my bright
white cabinet kitchen. I have never had bright white cabinets. All of the
apartments I've lived in in New York City have had brown cabinets... and finally
we have white cabinets. Come on in! So, as I mentioned with the
closets... the kitchen is very compact and tall. So there are really high cabinets
that we do need to step on a step ladder to get to... but most of the stuff that's
low is really the stuff we're going to be using
every day. For example, in disguise as a cabinet, we have a dishwasher... Which is
very hard to come by in a lot of New York City apartments... Especially downtown
in pre-war buildings... So I'm very excited we found this. And our refrigerator also
is in disguise as a cabinet... I LOVE when appliances are in disguise... It's just
one of my favorite things... Oh! I should have mentioned... I got cupping
the other day, which is why you're seeing these cup marks... in case you were just
seeing my back and thinking that I slammed it in a perfect circle... No. Here's
the refrigerator, and the one thing that is in there right now
is my iced matcha latte in my glass cup... I love that the cabinets are this sleek
white shiny material... We actually are getting closets built into the bedroom
and they are going to have the same doors, so it's going to resemble the
kitchen... And if you want to see my favorite cabinet in here... it's this one. Whoa...
I've never had something like this! Stovetop, oven, microwave... A lot of
cabinets... And as I mentioned, there is overhead lighting in here... So not only is
there a little bit of lighting above the windows, but there's also lighting on the
ceiling, and there's also lighting under the cabinets... as such. One of my favorite
parts of this is knowing that I'll be able to cook at night and have this
beautiful almost pinky-orange kitchen light on me... Very exciting. Okay, so now it's
time to get to the bedroom. If you look straight ahead behind me, that is the
living room... but we're gonna hang a right and go to the bedroom first.
Here we are in the bedroom! So, we had a little bit of difficulty figuring out
where to put the bed in this space. I think right now our plan is to put the bed
here... Coming out of the window wall. And the reason we wanted to do that is
because when you walk into the room we wanted to be able to kind of walk
straight to the bathroom, not walk around the bed... We have a dresser already in our
current apartment that we're going to put off to the side here... And then
opposite the bed we'll put a little TV stand to put our TV on, and along that
back wall on the side is where those closets that I was mentioning are going
to be built. So we went to Ikea and we ordered that pack system of closets, and
they're going to be built all along that wall and basically give us some
additional closet space... even though, as you will see, we do have a walk-in closet!
Now onto the master bathroom... For the first time in New York City, we have a
glass shower door. Wow... So this is our shower... It slides like this...
And my favorite part about this shower is that there's a giant rain head.
So it's totally just right on top of you, and it just rains down on you...
And then I'm gonna open this cabinet for you...
and show you that we have a medicine cabinet in here... There's also a few drawers, a
beautiful sink... And that's the bathroom. So now that you've seen the master
bedroom and bathroom, I'm going to take you to see the walk-in closet that
actually has a washer and dryer in it. Let's go.
Here's our walk-in closet... I'm walking in... This is great because it comes with some
of these shelves assembled that has extra hanging space, and obviously extra
shelves... and this washer/dryer, man... I mean I have never had my own washer
dryer in my life, let alone in New York City... So when I saw this I was just... "You
mean I get to just throw my underwear in the washer dryer... at any time that I
please? WOW! How exciting!" So this is my new best friend in the apartment. I am very
excited to wash and dry. And now we are off to my actual favorite room in the
apartment... even though I've pretty much said that every room is my favorite... The
living room. This is a beautiful space with windows on three sides of the room...
I just can't believe we found a space that has this many windows. In the living
room, the way we plan on decorating this space is we're gonna put an L-shaped
couch like this along this back wall and along this corner... This L-shaped couch
will have a coffee table in front of it, and we're going to put a TV stand and a
TV opposite it right under that window... And then our plan is to use the very
back of this living room space as a dining nook. So we're going to get a
dining table, four chairs... We'll probably try to get a table that can
seat more than four people in case we have guests over... but I guess, you know, it's not
that big of a space... so we'll have to keep it as compact as possible... And if we
can find one that's the right size, we would love to get one of those buffet
tables that we can keep just tucked under the back window there, in case we
want to keep extra dishes or cups in it so we don't have to keep getting up and
go to the kitchen when we're setting the table. Our plan right now is, against this
back wall where the back of the couch is gonna go... wallpaper the entire thing with a
very modern, geometric wallpaper. We think it will work really nicely with the rug
that we've picked out for the living room... which is kind of retro and kind of
a mid-century modern... My absolute favorite thing about all these windows
is that the ledges are really, really deep... so if you follow me the front
window, this is what I'm going to be doing every single morning. And my
absolute favorite view in the entire apartment is the Empire State Building
that you're seeing behind me... SO BEAUTIFUL. This is where I'm basically
going to have my coffee every morning, and just sit and look out on the city,
and just be so grateful that we are moving into this beautiful space. So we
just formally got the keys to this space, but I have had access to this apartment
for the past couple of weeks, and every single time I come... whether it's just to
check it out, or do a little bit of cleaning... I've parked myself right here in
my favorite window, I've popped in my headphones, and I've started listening to
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you would listen to first. And that is it. This has been my new two-bedroom,
two-bathroom apartment tour in downtown Manhattan... I really, really would
appreciate your design suggestions, so comment below now that you've seen the
space if you have any layout ideas or furniture ideas... We are always up for
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see you later, from New York City. Bye!