I spent two years and more money than I planned converting a boring rental into a full bohemian home. Most of what I know came from getting it wrong first. This is all of it. When my wife and I first moved into our current rental, the living room had grey carpet, white walls, and …
Lived in three studios. Went broke decorating the first one wrong. Now I write about small-space living so other guys don’t make the same dumb mistakes I did. My first cozy small studio apartment was 360 square feet and smelled faintly of whoever lived there before me. The overhead light had a hum. The walls …
Rented three apartments in four years. Each one had a living room that gave me problems. These are the things that actually fixed them. The first thing I did when I moved into my second apartment was drag my sofa directly against the longest wall, center the TV opposite it, and call it done. It …
