Home Sweet Home

It has taken me a really long time to get around to taking these pictures, but in case any of you wonder what our 73o sq. foot apartment looks like here you go!

Living room/kitchen view
Our Kitchen. See that garbage there? It's one of three. We have three garbage cans, because New Yorkers are pretty serious about their recycling. It's been an interesting adjustment for me.
Our bedroom/office.
Our living room.
Our apartment is a one bedroom with a den. This is a view of what we've done to close off the girls "room" from the living space. It's actually worked pretty well.
The girl's room. Yes I took this while they were sleeping. Luckily neither of them seemed to mind.
Our Bathroom.
The best part of our bathroom. Believe it or not these things are incredibly hard to come by. Seriously there are very few apartments that have washer/dryers in the units. Most New Yorkers are just happy to have coin op laundry in their building. I love these!
Entry way/divider view.

Short and sweet. That's it. I'm sure there are plenty of people looking at this living in places 4 or 5 times this size thinking we must be crazy, but I love our little apartment. Don't get me wrong I would love it even more if it were twice this size, but I really am happy here. It helps that our building has a lot of really great common spaces. My two favorite things about the building are first that our concierge/front desk guys are so nice! They have all of our names memorized, and it always makes me feel a little cool when we walk in the building and they say, "Hello Kristin, how was your day?" Haha. Or when they call up and say, "Kristin, there's a food delivery here for you" And I get to say "OK thanks Tim, go ahead and send them up." Haha, I'm such a nerd, but it does kind of make me feel cool. My second favorite thing about our apartment building is that it has a free hot chocolate machine! OK most people would call it a coffee machine, but they have a few different hot chocolate choices too. Hailey and I are definitely frequenters of the hot chocolate machine on cold days.

We also have a celebrity living in the building. It took us a while to figure out what her name was. Marc and I both recognized her, but couldn't think of what we'd seen her in. We'd seriously searched the Internet trying to figure out who she was, but then the other night I sat down and turned on Gossip Girl just for the heck of it and there she was. I'm too lazy to put a picture of her up, but Micheal Michelle lives in our building. She's a super beautiful half black actor who's been in ER and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days. I've ridden in the elevator with her, and she said hi to me. Haha...yeah I'm a nerd.

But that's our place. Not spacious, but we are happy here.