Survival Guide: Life in a Tiny Apartment, Brooklyn Edition - Remodelista
Photographs by Erin Boyle for Remodelista. When we first moved into our tiny Brooklyn Heights apartment, my husband, James (then fiancé), and I negotiated a six-month lease because we weren’t sure we could survive more time than that in such a cramped space. In many ways, our tiny apartment is the anti-remodel. Save a fresh coat of paint given to the ship’s ladder a year and a half after we moved in, we’ve never made any improvements to the place. Bits from our mismatched furniture collection (not to mention James’s eight-foot surfboard). This dresser (and its mate which we keep in the loft where we sleep) were Craigslist finds from our days in North Carolina (same goes for the kitchen chairs and the surfboard). Necessary even in a tiny apartment, our kitchen table. We put it out on the curb and the same day we stumbled upon this table, left curbside just a block away from our house. The ship’s ladder to our sleeping loft. The sleeping loft (crouching room only: the ceiling is a mere five feet). The space is confined, we figured it needed to be kept as light as possible (bedding included). Our sofa, bird’s-eye view. At 57.5 inches wide, it fits perfectly into the tiny space between our closet and window. A view of the kitchen from the ladder. Our curtained closet and a DIY Mounted Staghorn Fern. Our found kitchen table serves as the staging area for many a Gardenista-DIY. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that my favorite way to make life in tiny apartment tolerable is the addition of fresh flowers.