Check out Jenn & Phil’s apartment, equipped with a mix of old and new features, accent colors, and all the areas great for “activities.” What’s your favorite part of their tour? Let us know in the comments.
I'm looking at this apartment in horror... yes, they've made cute design choices, etc, but I'm pretty sure for it to be a LEGAL bedroom in NYC, you need a window/means of egress. I don't know, maybe I missed it, but the only window I saw was in the living room. This CLEARLY used to be ONE apartment chopped down into three, all for greed. I'm from Brooklyn but I hate hate hate how homes and apartments have been parceled out, and I really wish folks who come here would stop settling for this. YOU DESERVE WINDOWS! You deserve your own kitchen and bathroom. 😮💨😮💨😮💨
@spirals 73 in bulgaria you can have that for 350, in uganda for 100$. Even north of france can cost 400$, the cheapest regions of spain or portugal. Of even small cities in usa. You can be even more happy if the price is the point. Its cheaper, coz if worse. So easy. You dont have opportunities and cultural and social life like people in ny... i dont get these comments
Lovely home with nice design details. Those who don’t get it, just won’t get it, but you don’t need your own kitchen and bathroom to be “happy”. Certain personalities like to live in certain ways. And certain sacrifices are worth the NY lifestyle you get in return. This shows you truly can make a home out of a very unique space.
Technically it isn't a bedroom. They're just using it as a bedroom. If you look closely they don't even have a physical door to the room. Just a wide archway. It's probably listed as a studio apartment with an office, not a 1 bedroom apartment.
I totally agree with you. Every apartment, even a studio, should have a kitchen and a bathroom, however small. I certainly wouldn't want to share a bathroom with two other tenants. What do they do? Parcel out time for showers? Crazy!
I can’t imagine sharing 1 bathroom and kitchen with 2 other apartments!! I’ve had a hard enough time sharing laundry with other apartments. Or one bathroom with a partner. I can’t imagine adding 2 other units to the mix.
I had to laugh when she said they got a velvet couch to prevent scratching by their future pets. I read the same thing a few years back, splurged on a gorgeous velvet chair, and watched as my cats scratched the heck out of it. No fabric is safe (LOL)! 😿
@ Ann Johnson NO fabric is safe. I actually thought my cat didn't do that after spending $700 reupholstering two huge ball in claw chairs with beautiful tapestry material - in the late 1970s. One day, I'm facing in a particular direction and see the entire side of the chair - the tapestry shredded. Oh well. People say they get get scratching poles, covered with material or carpet and that doesn't keep them off the furniture, either. But I think it's also because they smell us there and you know, they love us 🤦🏼♀️
Truth. But it's worth it. Years ago we had our first cat declawed. Strangely he had far better manual strength than our other cats over the years.. We had a huge Pakman puppet that he hated. Just for fun my husband would put the puppet on his hand and Bucky would growl. One day Bucky ran over to my husband and whacked the puppet off of his hand. It landed on the other side of the room. That puppet was heavy.
I know sometimes we hv to make things work out. Until we can hv our own. If that's the goal. I stayed in shelter's before. I live in a small studio today. What matters having a roof over our head's. Your home is comfy. Thanks for sharing 😊
That’s totally understandable, but I guess if you want to live in New York City, sometimes you have to make allowances. It’s nice they have a mini fridge and a water bottle with a pour spout. I’d have to have those things and probably an electric kettle too.
Sharing a kitchen I could deal with even though it’s far from ideal, but I couldn’t comprise on not having my own bathroom. I just want access to it at all times and not sharing it with a bunch of strangers.
I don't like the shared kitchen and bathroom with 2 other apartments. Hopefully their NY rent reflects that. You can tell they like each others company which is nice to see.
This is the 5th video of yours that I've watched and what amazes me is so many people are RENTERS! They do so much work in their apartments and put in some mighty big bucks and they don't own it?? I am just kinda surprised at that...
Lovely decor and DIY things. I would think that the "Superintendent" of the building would have a full apartment; bathroom and kitchen included. Hope the rent deal is a win-win.
@@sunnydaysatl In all the NYC buildings I've lived in, the super is full time and has a real apartment. Don't know how much super work he does if he has another full time job?
What a fun and creative couple! They look like they’d be fun to hang out with and they’ve done an awesome job with their space. I love that both sets their parents came and helped them intensely when they moved in.
Wow, I Ilve in Williamsburg Brooklyn and was raised in a railroad apartment and I would take any tiny apartment over one where you share a kitchen and bathroom. This reminds me of the turn of the century tenemant apartments where different families shared kitchens and bathrooms. Since the 1960s, my mother still lives in the railroad apartment and it has the original bathtub in the kitchen. I grew up there. I would take a bathtub in the kitchen over sharing anything with strangers, let alone a bathroom. My mother's rent controlled $142/month apartment will pass down to my son as he lives and takes care of her. The landlord could have created apartments with kitchens and bathrooms, but seemed to be too cheap to do it. This apartment seems to be one large apartment that is rented to different people that have their own rooms and share the kitchen and bathroom. This is nothing short of roommates. Being a super, you also get a discount or free rent and most times a salary. Who would strip metal kitchen cabinets if this was not their own c-op/condo if they were not getting paid for it?
Great space! But I can’t imagine sharing a kitchen with two other households. I literally spend probably 80% of my waking “ home hours” in my kitchen! And the shared bathroom? No way!! Glad to leave that arrangement back in the college years😂 However, from the very personal way they talk about the kitchen/bath design choices and the fact he’s the super, it’s clearly more like they have two tenants renting rooms from them--and probably get a much discounted rent for taking it all on! Obvious they “own” the entire space in their own minds😁
I’m glad you made this space work for both of you, especially in NYC where it’s hard to find a decent living space. Sometimes you can’t get windows in all rooms!
Nope. Not sharing a kitchen and bathroom. Beautiful area that you all live in but that’s a deal breaker for someone like me who has to use the bathroom frequently.
Phil had me cracking up. "The best thing is our collapsible dishrack, I know everyone's tuning in to see stuff like this" "It's creepy because it's like staring at the bed, I'm picturing a third person.... but, um, yeah, you can store stuff!"
I have that same dish rack. My current apartment doesn't have a dishwasher, sink sprayer or enough countertop space, like my previous apartment did. Even though I've been in this apartment for almost 3 years, I'm holding onto it, to use in my next place. 😁
Nice apartment however I can not imagine sharing a kitchen and bathroom with other tenants. And Phil’s breakfast fantasy…how exactly would that work?? Definitely not enough privacy for my comfort level.
I think I could share a kitchen, as long as I had some small appliances in my apartment to cook quick meals. But sharing a bathroom I don't know about that
I mean they seem to have more of an issue with the kitchen than the bathroom so kudos to them but wow NY really makes us survivors. I’m sure when they don’t have to share those spaces their going to be super great full
The things people give up to live in NYC..........it just boggles the mind. Sharing a kitchen and a bathroom between 3 apartments???!! No thank you. They literally have like one window for the whole place. Just nuts.
3 apartments share 1 kitchen and bathroom?! That's just gross. The 2 dirtiest rooms in the house. I wouldn't want to deal with other people's messes in those most intimate of spaces. What if one family never washes their dishes?! Or somebody pees all over the bathroom and never cleans up?! Just gross!
They've done a beautiful job. Personally I couldn't share a bathroom or kitchen, I would rather have a tiny house with all I need than share a larger space, but if it works for them, then I'm happy for them!
I am facilitated by this channel people’s creativity is just amazing whenever I get a notification from apartment therapy I get the cinnamon vanilla coffee and my I pad ready😄☕️❤️
Yes, he is a little too precious for my personal taste but she seems to adore him. I love how after she pointed out the posters of show she worked on he had to point out his album, lol!!
their apartment is so cozy and gorgeous... fabulous job! I wouldn't be able to share a bathroom w three apartments.... maybe a kitchen, but dealbreaker not having a bathroom
Great bones in the apartment too bad they split the building up like that with the "share factor". It is kind of a weird set up ...the owner greed is unbelievable in NYC
Phil's feelings about the closed up fireplace and upper cabinet were humorous. But his hiding behind the bedroom screen, as a third person looking on, was a little creepy 😂
I'm wondering if maybe the paint used just wasn't good? 🤔 And the lights under the cabinets is a super easy try out with the peel & stick led strips. Like $10-15 and you can even adjust the tone to warm or cool with some to figure out what you like best
Im struggling to tell with the lighting but I think the blue wall is either inchyra blue or Hague blue by farrow and ball. It looks different in each shot, and I have both colours in my flat and I still can’t tell which it is lol. Either way I Love this apartment ❤
This is very cool and eclectic space.. but idk if I could live with a neighbors door literally in my bedroom and no kitchen. I can deal with a shared bathroom, but I need a kitchen.
They have their own kitchen and bath. The kitchen is outside of the main apartment and down the hall (some apartments in Brooklyn brownstones are like this). As another commenter mentioned, The kitchen tour begins at 14:37 and the bathroom tour begins 17:54. They're beautifully renovated.
@@blurryinterests Hmmm, the only reason I don’t think so is because I had an apartment like this in Clinton Hill, and the kitchen and bath were down the hall so I understood when they said they didn’t want to have to go outside the main apartment to go down the hall. But I could be wrong 😂.
I mistook my Wayfair loveseat for this allmodern sofa- looks exactly the same- also not comfy so good to know I wouldn’t have been any happier spending $600 more.
u made a lovely home & ur apt is pure nyc BUT i cant imagine sharing a kitchen & bath w/ strangers. who cleans the rooms? what if one is a slob? what if ur cooking & the other wants to cook. what if ur taking a shower & the other needs the bathroom ASAP??!. do u disinfect everything esp bathroom b4 using? do you share the pots & pans? who takes out the garbage?! so many questions. im all agog! ive read about the old tenements in lower manh when they finally made it a law that the landlord had to provide ONE toilet for every 20 tenants (i believe) before that, they all shared outhouses & used chamber pots! useless historical tidbits for anyone. now, i wouldnt even move into a place w/o a washer/dryer! LOL. spoiled in tribeca. but i did live in a studio in harlem for 3 years before i was able to buy. (laundry was in the spookiest basement...god i hated laundry day. i refused to go at night.). but i actually liked my cozy little studio.
I have exactly the same dining table as them, it is from West Elm made of Mango wood, they are the best dining table ever!!!! The video doesn't justify the color at all! It is filled with different varieties of red tones, which makes it extremely different from any normal oka or walnut.
I enjoyed seeing your apartment. You two are so cute together. Your ideas worked out very well to make your spaces comfortable and pleasing to look at. 😊
I just painted my bathroom tiles black & going for that black & white theme with the decor, I live in an older larger apartment also & sometimes you just need to get bold with changing up what better way then with paint.😌
My thing is trying to update a prewar apartment that’s set in its ways with its older moldings and door frames that no longer exsist in this new age of home life, I guess I feel caught between the old & the new😏
Your space is beautiful but for the amount of money your probably spending sharing a bathroom and kitchen seems like a big deal breaker. Were do you do laundry? Who cleans the bath and kitchen? And you have to share the fridge with three apt,s ?
1. Where do you do laundry? Drop your laundry off at the wash and fold down the block 2. Who cleans the bath and kitchen? Tenants clean up after themselves and collectively hire a cleaner to come by once a week. New York has a lot of places to eat out so not every tenant will use the kitchen that often. 3. One main fridge in the shared kitchen with separate mini-fridges in the private rooms, if desired.
Lens that elongates the space is used. Look and compare any piece of furniture or home feature taken from different angles. You can see how much they're stretched out (ie: couch @1:35 vs @4:14). Unfortunately this is used in these kinds of videos and by realtors to make smaller spaces look more impressive.
@AdrienneMint , I too years ago lived in a 600 foot apartment that looked and felt like 400 when I was stationed in Norfolk, VA while on active duty in the Navy 🤣
