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Showing posts with label Apartment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apartment. Show all posts

4.19.2011

New digs.

This past month has been busy with many, many things... Obviously... not blogging. That is the one thing I did not do this month... but not because of lack of things to blog about. 

Au contraire, mes amis...

Since January, I have moved to a new apartment. It was a much needed change. Our new apartment is lovely and definitely not lacking in the sunlight department. It was a lucky find indeed.

 The apartment, which was not initially in our budget, is located BELOW 96th street which is the ward boundary. Tash and I really wanted to stay in the ward and spent a long time weeding through listings that did not meet our budget and location needs.

 Some random Monday, we called some random broker who showed us this place. We were able to negotiate our rent down and talk ourselves out of a broker's fee through the management company. It was a bit of a stressful process since our third roommate, Britt, was in China and it took a little longer to get approved. We love our new place and I have zero plans of moving for a really long time.

our living room... clearly, some curtains and art need to go up

living room 2. 

we love our kitchen. when we moved in, we literally peeled off the plastic off our brand new, full size (unheard of!) appliances.

Remember the pictures I digitally altered from my Europe trip? In love. Particularly the one on the bottom left corner (Carnaby Street in London)

The whole thing. I couldn't completely do away with Broadway, so I settled for my top 2 shows.

my little room. I LOVE IT!

7.07.2009

It has exposed brick... On purpose.

I rather like my new apartment. As Abby Rose describes it "It has a lot of character." I agree.


View from the loft.



View from front door. Check out the dress on the mannequin that Jess put together. I want one in every color.

My own little loft space. I love it up there. I can't ever hear what is going on downstairs. Also, there is a window that looks into a bar. Apparently this wondow provides hours and hours of entertainment.


2.11.2009

Whatever happens is meant to be...

There are a few things in my life I really, really want to work out.

The apartment is one of them. The other one, well... I don't even know what to think about it right now...

BUT...OK. We walked around for nearly three hours tonight. I walked around for an hour and a half during my break. Add another hour for yesterday, another for Monday, two for Saturday and three more for the previous week. That's almost 12 hours of walking around in Manhattan looking for the perfect apartment.

And I think we might have found it. 67th Street and Columbus.


I believe Vanessa from In the Heights put it best when she says "Just a little credit check and I'm on that downtown train..."

We'll find out tomorrow if we got it for sure.


I'll update when I hear back.


Love,

Me

PS. HUGE kitchen= happy Alina

PSS. Barnes and Noble, MAC Cosmetics, AMC Theaters, Central Park, Lansky's, Magnolia Bakery and across the street from the Manhattan temple= very, very happy Alina.