Hi I'm Alison,
welcome to my Sweet Duplex… I mean Digs.
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I live in Harlem with my boyfriend Matt.
Our rent is $2750 a month, which we split.
Overall, I think it's horribly inflated but, you know, for here it's good.
It's also an improvement from our last apartment
which was about 200 or 300 more dollars a month.
It was probably about half the square footage that this is.
I think this space is probably 1200 square feet.
Does that include the garden?
With the garden I would say maybe a couple hundred more.
We moved in about 5 months ago,
from my much smaller apartment on the Upper West Side.
We moved to New York from Kentucky,
so there was maybe a bit of a sticker shock.
I actually had a house
there, so it was weird to move from a house that I own to an apartment
that I have to rent for way, way, way more money every month.
You enter straight into our dining room here
which connects to the kitchen and bar area.
I feel like we split the cooking pretty evenly.
But we do not split the cleaning, Matt does most of it.
I really hate doing the dishes.
I do the dishes probably 9 out of 10 times.
She uses 19 spoons a day probably.
Being liberal there, I think.
I like anything that can go in like one dish,
or a pot, or the crock pot.
I like things that are more involved,
I like making pasta some heavier dishes.
One item that we have here that
is tied to our relationship is this French menu that
I bought for Matt.
It was the first thing that I ever bought him
because he was living in Paris for a year
before we met.
It was an awesome way to sort of
let me know how much she liked me.
I really liked it.
What would you say our favorite part of the neighborhood is?
Personally, the commute down to 59th street where I work.
Super, super easy.
I guess my favorite part of the neighborhood
is how accessible the north side of Central Park is
because it's not quite as manicured as maybe the middle of it is,
and I really like that wild feeling
because it feels like you can explore and get lost in it.
And then through here is our bedroom.
The worst part about living in this apartment
is probably that you have to walk through
the bedroom to get to the bathroom.
It's kinda unfortunate when we have guests stay over.
Compared to our last apartment
we had a bed that was lofted,
so you had to walk up a rickety
ladder to get to it.
In comparison
this one seems so much better.
But it's nice that it's spacious
because we have the queen sized bed now
and if we wanted to put a king in here we could.
So, the worst part about living with Matt
is that he's under the impression that I absorb
about 3 quarters of this bed at night,
which is not true, I absolutely stick to my half.
But it's a source of tension.
I think she actually lies completely horizontal,
so she takes up 100% of the bed, for the record.
I would love to take credit for the wallpaper behind me
but that was actually put in by
our landlord before we moved in.
And over here we have our very small bathroom.
Hopefully in our next move we'll have one
that's a little bit nicer
and isn't in the bedroom.
Especially because I consider this to be
sort of sanctuary for me,
which basically just means I like drinking in the shower.
This is the terrace outside of our bedroom
that has a spiral staircase leading down to
the garden area.
There's nothing out there yet,
but I'm hoping to put in some fairy lights and hanging gardens.
And then we can head back through here to the living room.
We found the majority of our furniture on Craigslist.
I think it's nice to
buy something off of somebody else
because they need the money,
I need the furniture, and
it's good for the planet to give something a second life.
For the trash finds
just kinda go out on trash day
and wander between the suburban rows of houses.
You're guaranteed to find something.
I moved to New York City for my Master's
which was in History of Designs and Curatorial Studies.
I don't think that my budget is quite matched
up with my tastes,
just having studied like
extremely high-end design in school
because that's sort of all you look at.
So, my favorite home find is probably this
chair from Crate & Barrel originally.
Then I spent maybe three days pulling the stains out of it.
I remember the vacuum was on for like three days straight,
I saw Alison down here trying to get the stains out.
But it works, it looks really, really beautiful.
My favorite home find is probably this lamp we got,
it's a floor lamp from Ikea,
we got off Craigslist for around 15 dollars.
Our most sentimental piece of furniture
is probably the coffee table which your dad made for us.
It's beautiful, it's this live edge table with hairpin legs.
My father's a woodworker
and when we moved in together he gave us this table as a gift,
as a keepsake, so it's super sentimental for us.
You might have noticed there's a ton of wall space down here,
and a lot of our furniture is sort of white and cream.
So, instead of buying something
I'm actually a trained artist, so I just went and bought
a canvas and painted this huge painting
behind me to try to bring some more life into this space.
It took me several months to do it, but
that was probably owed to my own neuroticism about
the colors and shifting those back and forth all the time.
Our strategy for finding this apartment
was kinda just let's hit every button on StreetEasy
that we want
but we don't actually think it's gonna be attainable,
and this is the only place that came up.
So, we jumped in the subway
and came up here and signed the papers.
We met on tinder about four years ago,
he was the first person that I went out with,
and I think it was the same for you,
and we went to a coffee shop on a Sunday morning.
It went really well.
The best part of living together is
that I get to see you all the time.
Yeah, I mean, I love your company so it's great.
Yeah, we used to do long distance
which was really, really hard, and now that we have
a space to share together that's big and beautiful,
it makes it a lot easier, I think,
on the relationship.
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