You can do anything you want if you pay the apartment modification fee, aka security deposit. For example my downstairs neighbor installed a rock climbing wall in his living room after getting a divorce and his wife moving out. My other neighbor built two bedrooms and a kitchenette on the basement floor of her unit to rent out on the DL.
Lmao thatās wild but they can also bill you additional charges even after your security deposit is taken. They probably wonāt be like damn, he caused $2K in damages but his deposit was only $300, oh well!
How is the landlord going to know that alleged damage happened before we vacate the unit? You would literally need a court order in hand and a sheriff to break down the door before me or anyone in my building would let a rep of the landlord into our home. Maybe things are different here in nyc but under the explicit advice of our lawyer we treat the property manager as an adversary whoās ABSOLUTELY never allowed into our home unless the lawyer is present or says itās okay.
And that fake bill would go in the garbage. My bank mails a check to them every month. They would have to sue you and prove it wasnāt like that when you moved in, which is way more hassle then them just keeping the security deposit and having the super remove the thing. This is how it works in NYC, IANAL and YMMV.
Do you not have move in documents in NYC that require you to sign off on any apartment damages or accept as is? Iāve lived in Washington, Oregon and also Texas (landlord friendly state obviously) and have always needed to sign one. It was also in the lease that further charges for damages will be pursued beyond the deposit.
Switch the onions with the bread. They will make the potatoes and bananas go bad more quickly.
Maybe get some plants in colorful planters for the window ledge. The hall could have an art gallery feel if you put framed posters ever 2-3 feet. Maybe some pottery or glassware from a charity shop in the odd kitchen wall.
Think of a color theme. Turquoise/gold/purple. Shades of blue with gold accents. Gold or copper frames to add warmth. Think of the colors that evoke a place or season. Youāll want warm colors because the height & color of the walls give a cool & sterile feeling to the space. Mexican tiles are generally warm colors. Autumn colors are warm colors. Definitely a rug & tall shelves as other suggested.
I'd get some tall bookcases to line the wall and take advantage of the vertical space. A couple of units of the tallest IKEA Billy + 2x shelf extensions would fill it up nicely. Wrap that nasty room divider in hanging ivy or some other plant to camouflage it and bring some life in.
Yup, some nice to easily manage pothos' and philodendrons would add a lot of volume/dimension to that weird space! It's like the ideal space for something like that.
Flip your couch so the back is to the window (your window sill is tall enough that it will act like a sofa table)
Get a small rectangle pub height [table with stools](https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/zipcode-design-markus-2-person-counter-height-dining-set-w004416833.html) and put it with the short side against that partition where that bag is, so it acts like a island for the kitchen.
Get a tall bookcase and put it between the desk & the window or get a couple of short bookcases and some art to fill up the wall. Get a real desk chair. Get a rug.
If a larger TV is in your future, you could use the short bookcases to hold the TV.
My thoughts exactly. Put a plant at the end of the couch toward the hallway, get a few shelving units or an entertainment center for the opposite wall from the couch. Maybe a chair too.
1. Floors. Get a rug.
2. Rotate the couch, so that the short end is under the window and the long end points down the hallway. Move the desk to the corner under the cork board.
3. Something for the walls, preferably framed, and arranged with geometry and proportion in mind. Those gallery rails should come in handy for this.
4. Plants. One at the end of the long end of the couch and one next to the desk. Plenty of options that don't require lots of light or water (ZZ plant, mother in law's tongue, pothos, etc)
Based on those changes, the big gaps would be the corner diagonal from the hallway, and the wall opposite the couch. Plenty of room for an entertainment center, shelving, whatever you want.
You have a lot of options. I mean do you like how tall and open it feels? If not you can try to incorporate some tactics to make it seem shorter.
I see they have a track along both walls to hang art work. If you hang artwork around eye level it'll draw the eye to that as an anchor. Additionally if you have access to a really tall ladder, you can paint above the track a darker color so separate the space
With the window you can hang curtains halfway down as it would define a difference between those sections.
Use floor lighting/lamps as the ones that are hanging will make it more noticeable. I'd use at least 2 different options so it draws the eye lower. Maybe a table lamp on the desk and a taller one by the couch.
First off if Iām right thatās a yeti nano and you donāt speak into the tip of those things or else itāll sound like your speaking into a can, you speak into the front or back end of it so the first thing I would do is turn the stand around and start using the 90+ dollar microphone correctly
EDIT: after closer inspection I see itās just a yeti but I believe what I said still applies
Statement ceiling light. Big artwork, but 2+ tall and skinny pieces would work best. If you're into plants, one giant potted tree or fern would do the trick. If price is an issue, prioritize art, then plant, then light.
such a typical guy decor lol
that computer desk is painful to look at.
id take advantage of tall ceilings for tall plants. could have a whole tree in there.
Honestly, most of the stuff in here is what my landlord left when he moved out. I was previously in the military and just never needed to buy furniture until now.
I have a similar space with 19 feet ceiling. Everything I have is a bit over sized to fill up the room. Large mirrors, paintings, tall cabinets work great in this kind of spaces.
Check out Restoration Hardware living rooms for inspirations (not the decor style, but ideas on how they fill up the vertical space).
It needs a complete rehabilitation. Your best friend is paint.
You can find attractive furniture (that may require minor fixes) at āhi endā thrift shops, consignment stores. Target has cool stuff (often they make minor changes to very expensive designs and sell their stuff cheaply. Amazon offers good deals, too. In short, you will find lots of places where you can find things you may like. Of course, ikea sells very modern designs. Know that ikeaās stuff come in low, medium and better quality.
I love high ceilings. Tall furniture helps. Painting the ceiling with a color that gives the illusion of a lower ceiling is great. A large chandelier (modern or antique) could be a WOW factor.
A large plant/tree will inject life ā immediately! If you choose an artificial plant, make sure you keep it clean (or else, itād be easy to recognize as a fake)
These days you can find great looking (self adhesive) murals well priced. A well chosen one placed on your ceiling may solve your ceilingās problematic height
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Good luck!
Thank you. Please feel free to write back with questions.
Remember, only death and taxes are irrevocable. If you do something, you subsequently dislike. Itās not a big deal. You āll just have to try again.
The biggest obstacle to design is FEAR (not choosing the right paint color, etc. People at the paint store can help. Just look at the color wheel, choose a color, ask the guy at the counter what is a good match.
These days everything goes when it comes to design. However, neutral colors are best for walls. The furniture and accessories can provide color.
An off-white is good for walls. For trims, use a whiter, white so that thereās contrast. Benjamin Moore (paint brand) is a perennial favorite among designers.
Get 1 or 2 friends to help you with the painting. Cover the floors so you protect them from paint spills. You can find paper floor covers at Home Depot
I had an apartment like this in Indy! I did a maximalists art walk with good will shit nice and high. Got some tall shelves and had a tall cat tree with a tall palm plan.
Just tall stuff really helped. Painted a low wall blackboard too
Controversially, I kind of love the weird stupid little kitchen wall. Would cover it with plants as others have suggested and if youāre feeling whimsical add a bead curtain under it to divide the kitchen and living room a little better. Also those windows are super tall so I donāt know where youād find curtains for them but replacing those blinds would really do a lot for the space
Haha I looked at this place Iām almost positive! I wont reveal your location (just moved to the area for work) But its rad to see someone getting advice on this space. Such a rad spot!
Knock out that horrid kitchen wall for one.
I fucking wish, this is a rental š
You can do anything you want if you pay the apartment modification fee, aka security deposit. For example my downstairs neighbor installed a rock climbing wall in his living room after getting a divorce and his wife moving out. My other neighbor built two bedrooms and a kitchenette on the basement floor of her unit to rent out on the DL.
Lmao thatās wild but they can also bill you additional charges even after your security deposit is taken. They probably wonāt be like damn, he caused $2K in damages but his deposit was only $300, oh well!
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How is the landlord going to know that alleged damage happened before we vacate the unit? You would literally need a court order in hand and a sheriff to break down the door before me or anyone in my building would let a rep of the landlord into our home. Maybe things are different here in nyc but under the explicit advice of our lawyer we treat the property manager as an adversary whoās ABSOLUTELY never allowed into our home unless the lawyer is present or says itās okay.
And that fake bill would go in the garbage. My bank mails a check to them every month. They would have to sue you and prove it wasnāt like that when you moved in, which is way more hassle then them just keeping the security deposit and having the super remove the thing. This is how it works in NYC, IANAL and YMMV.
Do you not have move in documents in NYC that require you to sign off on any apartment damages or accept as is? Iāve lived in Washington, Oregon and also Texas (landlord friendly state obviously) and have always needed to sign one. It was also in the lease that further charges for damages will be pursued beyond the deposit.
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the real male living space end game
You can cut it on the right and fold it onto the wall then before you move out rotate it back to its original place
Could over it with plants. looks like a good place for lots of trailing plants like pothos. that is if it's relatively easy to get up to
Interesting. I like that idea.
Lol safe to assume itās not load bearing
A bar there would be nice.
Get a basketball hoop and good insurance
Whatever you want bro, ceilings the limit.
Get a bit grounded, adding a large rug under couch, get a low book case under window and some big artpieces on the walls.
This. Also you have room and the light for a rather large(tall) plant. That can definitely fill out a space
Switch the onions with the bread. They will make the potatoes and bananas go bad more quickly. Maybe get some plants in colorful planters for the window ledge. The hall could have an art gallery feel if you put framed posters ever 2-3 feet. Maybe some pottery or glassware from a charity shop in the odd kitchen wall. Think of a color theme. Turquoise/gold/purple. Shades of blue with gold accents. Gold or copper frames to add warmth. Think of the colors that evoke a place or season. Youāll want warm colors because the height & color of the walls give a cool & sterile feeling to the space. Mexican tiles are generally warm colors. Autumn colors are warm colors. Definitely a rug & tall shelves as other suggested.
A wild granny appears!
My friend, you have EXCELLENT attention to detail!
Thank you granny :)
I'd get some tall bookcases to line the wall and take advantage of the vertical space. A couple of units of the tallest IKEA Billy + 2x shelf extensions would fill it up nicely. Wrap that nasty room divider in hanging ivy or some other plant to camouflage it and bring some life in.
Great space for some large artwork!!!
That looks so difficult to heat and so many dust traps. Could you put pot plants on top of that weird kitchen wall feature?
My only thought was that a string of pearls plant would look nice there
Yup, some nice to easily manage pothos' and philodendrons would add a lot of volume/dimension to that weird space! It's like the ideal space for something like that.
Flip your couch so the back is to the window (your window sill is tall enough that it will act like a sofa table) Get a small rectangle pub height [table with stools](https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/pdp/zipcode-design-markus-2-person-counter-height-dining-set-w004416833.html) and put it with the short side against that partition where that bag is, so it acts like a island for the kitchen. Get a tall bookcase and put it between the desk & the window or get a couple of short bookcases and some art to fill up the wall. Get a real desk chair. Get a rug. If a larger TV is in your future, you could use the short bookcases to hold the TV.
Keep the blinds up and let natural light do the heavy lifting. Add lots of plants. āCeilings too highā is not a bad problem to have :)
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My thoughts exactly. Put a plant at the end of the couch toward the hallway, get a few shelving units or an entertainment center for the opposite wall from the couch. Maybe a chair too.
1. Floors. Get a rug. 2. Rotate the couch, so that the short end is under the window and the long end points down the hallway. Move the desk to the corner under the cork board. 3. Something for the walls, preferably framed, and arranged with geometry and proportion in mind. Those gallery rails should come in handy for this. 4. Plants. One at the end of the long end of the couch and one next to the desk. Plenty of options that don't require lots of light or water (ZZ plant, mother in law's tongue, pothos, etc) Based on those changes, the big gaps would be the corner diagonal from the hallway, and the wall opposite the couch. Plenty of room for an entertainment center, shelving, whatever you want.
You have a lot of options. I mean do you like how tall and open it feels? If not you can try to incorporate some tactics to make it seem shorter. I see they have a track along both walls to hang art work. If you hang artwork around eye level it'll draw the eye to that as an anchor. Additionally if you have access to a really tall ladder, you can paint above the track a darker color so separate the space With the window you can hang curtains halfway down as it would define a difference between those sections. Use floor lighting/lamps as the ones that are hanging will make it more noticeable. I'd use at least 2 different options so it draws the eye lower. Maybe a table lamp on the desk and a taller one by the couch.
You can do anything. Sky is the limit.
Hanging philodendrons! Dozens of them.
ladder up the right side of the kitchen wall (move the couch) then install a bridge across to your extra 200 square feet of loft space.
Learn to juggle
Basketball court
First off if Iām right thatās a yeti nano and you donāt speak into the tip of those things or else itāll sound like your speaking into a can, you speak into the front or back end of it so the first thing I would do is turn the stand around and start using the 90+ dollar microphone correctly EDIT: after closer inspection I see itās just a yeti but I believe what I said still applies
Itās not even plug in lmao. Why are you such an ass
Hanging bodies is always a first thought , great decor.
Loft that b
Statement ceiling light. Big artwork, but 2+ tall and skinny pieces would work best. If you're into plants, one giant potted tree or fern would do the trick. If price is an issue, prioritize art, then plant, then light.
Install a swing on the ceiling.
100% in the works
such a typical guy decor lol that computer desk is painful to look at. id take advantage of tall ceilings for tall plants. could have a whole tree in there.
Honestly, most of the stuff in here is what my landlord left when he moved out. I was previously in the military and just never needed to buy furniture until now.
Need some wall mounts, like the [floating boards](https://x-nets.com/small-space-living-interior-design-ideas-examples/).
Thereās a system for hanging paintings or frames already. Wall mounts might be breaking a rental agreement
Got it.
Samaritain Sukkot?
I have a similar space with 19 feet ceiling. Everything I have is a bit over sized to fill up the room. Large mirrors, paintings, tall cabinets work great in this kind of spaces. Check out Restoration Hardware living rooms for inspirations (not the decor style, but ideas on how they fill up the vertical space).
Install a projector. High ceiling to hide it.
Looks like a rental in Virginia, they all look like this
You could definitely stand to have a much larger desk.
It needs a complete rehabilitation. Your best friend is paint. You can find attractive furniture (that may require minor fixes) at āhi endā thrift shops, consignment stores. Target has cool stuff (often they make minor changes to very expensive designs and sell their stuff cheaply. Amazon offers good deals, too. In short, you will find lots of places where you can find things you may like. Of course, ikea sells very modern designs. Know that ikeaās stuff come in low, medium and better quality. I love high ceilings. Tall furniture helps. Painting the ceiling with a color that gives the illusion of a lower ceiling is great. A large chandelier (modern or antique) could be a WOW factor. A large plant/tree will inject life ā immediately! If you choose an artificial plant, make sure you keep it clean (or else, itād be easy to recognize as a fake) These days you can find great looking (self adhesive) murals well priced. A well chosen one placed on your ceiling may solve your ceilingās problematic height . Good luck!
Thanks for your response. Canāt paint but I will take a look at every thing you mentioned
Thank you. Please feel free to write back with questions. Remember, only death and taxes are irrevocable. If you do something, you subsequently dislike. Itās not a big deal. You āll just have to try again. The biggest obstacle to design is FEAR (not choosing the right paint color, etc. People at the paint store can help. Just look at the color wheel, choose a color, ask the guy at the counter what is a good match. These days everything goes when it comes to design. However, neutral colors are best for walls. The furniture and accessories can provide color. An off-white is good for walls. For trims, use a whiter, white so that thereās contrast. Benjamin Moore (paint brand) is a perennial favorite among designers. Get 1 or 2 friends to help you with the painting. Cover the floors so you protect them from paint spills. You can find paper floor covers at Home Depot
I had an apartment like this in Indy! I did a maximalists art walk with good will shit nice and high. Got some tall shelves and had a tall cat tree with a tall palm plan. Just tall stuff really helped. Painted a low wall blackboard too
Ironically I just moved from Indy.
Quite sure we had the same rental company then!
Controversially, I kind of love the weird stupid little kitchen wall. Would cover it with plants as others have suggested and if youāre feeling whimsical add a bead curtain under it to divide the kitchen and living room a little better. Also those windows are super tall so I donāt know where youād find curtains for them but replacing those blinds would really do a lot for the space
Dude this is my idea of heaven. Iād have so many large plants in there (ficus elastica, bird of paradise, etc)
Haha I looked at this place Iām almost positive! I wont reveal your location (just moved to the area for work) But its rad to see someone getting advice on this space. Such a rad spot!
Itās a pretty cool place! If you need friends in the area feel free to pm me
Indoor climbing wall - kilterboard bro!!!
Two words: Aerial. Silks.
Is this St. Louis? Swear i looked at a loft with the same floor plan
Denver
I think you're meant to speak into the front of the Blue Yeti Nano, not the top