Following my thorough Thursday cleaning and organizing, I decided to document my apartment in photos so as people would believe me when I claim that I do, in fact, sometimes clean my apartment.
This is the view from my foyer — yes, my 400 square foot studio has a foyer — into my living room. Whereas in most residences a “living room” has some sort of vague gathering-of-sofas connotation, in my apartment, it’s an office + library + media room + bedroom.
My kitchen is ridiculously tiny and long. I moved the refrigerator from under the cabinets to the window and in doing so found room for a table. I do, in fact, have a second chair for that table … I just don’t have any place to put it!
It’d be just as easy to have the foyer completely empty, but I’ve made it fit my “style”. Those are Lego patents framed over the door, and what you can’t see is the Baltimore Street sign from Ohio, and a Spock groks Heineken ad over the kitchen’s entry.
Wow, your apartment looks great. Clean and functional for the new year.
Comment by NotableM — January 3, 2009 @ 10:36 am
You invented Lego? I’m impressed. You must be, what, 84?
Comment by lacochran — January 3, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Michelle: you should come down and visit! I’ll give you the grand tour!
Lacochran: Let me be more specific … framed copies of the Lego patents, which I didn’t invent.
Comment by MalSnay — January 3, 2009 @ 11:54 am
Did you come up with the idea to frame the patents? That is genius!
And oooh, all the books! Jealous.
Comment by Sarah — January 3, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
Jesus Christ, I had more space in my first prison cell than you have in that tiny shit hole.
Comment by Mighty Dyckerson — January 3, 2009 @ 11:04 pm
I think every single person in America has owned that lamp in front of the fridge.
Comment by lemmonex — January 4, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Sarah: I did, thanks!
Dyckerson: Remind me to tell you what I pay in rent sometime.
Lemmonex: I actually have four of them now … which is down from when I had twelve (gave most of ‘em away!)
Comment by MalSnay — January 5, 2009 @ 7:53 am
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Nice spider plant on the fridge! :)
Comment by Danielle — January 5, 2009 @ 9:16 am
If there’s still vodka in that Ketel bottle, I’d move it away from the fridge. The backs and sides of refrigerators get fairly warm, which could ruin your fine liquor.
Comment by Matt — January 5, 2009 @ 10:23 am
Matt – no worries, there’s never been any vodka in that bottle, it was a promotional thing.
Comment by MalSnay — January 5, 2009 @ 10:54 am
Dude, have you ever had to use those swords to defend your apartment? Because that would be a cool story…
Comment by Brian Kainec — January 5, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Brian – No, thankfully, but I do have an old billy club by the door, and a shotgun in the closet.
Comment by MalSnay — January 5, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
…shotgun in the closet
Isn’t that still illegal in the District? Now I know not to break in when you are home.
Comment by Big Money Tony — January 5, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
BMT: No, shotguns have always been legal. It used to be they had to be stored disassembled, though, I don’t know if that’s still the case. And over the summer, the Supreme Court struck down DC’s anti-handgun legislation, so handguns are legal. Don’t break in when I’m not home, either: the cats are trained in feline-fu!
Comment by MalSnay — January 5, 2009 @ 2:05 pm
No vodka in the Kettle One bottle? I cried. But it’s still a lovely accent piece.
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