Blast From The Past: Part 2: a house log

Is it painfully obvious that we are trying to keep everyone entertained while holiday celebrations are distracting us from working on the house? We thought so.

Now that you’ve seen my little space in the big city, it is time to show John’s Apartment on New York City’s Upper West Side. It is second in the series of videos I shot for Kitty, my BFF who lived in Iowa at the time.

John in fact edited this one down a little bit so you do not get to see the living room. That is because it was only a living room for a few days before they had walls built to create a third bedroom in order to accommodate a third roommate – a classic NYC trick for lowering your rent. It also does not show the five flights of stairs you had to walk up to get there. We do not miss them.

Here are some of the lively things you will get to see:

• More free or low-cost furniture finds

• Another small kitchen that we were quite proud of at the time

• A lot of brown and blue (I at last made him tone down the masculine color scheme when we moved in together)

• A cool, accent wall mural that we painted together based on our go-to album cover by The Shins