Posts by James Walker

Most apartment balconies look the same: 4x6 feet of bare concrete, one plastic chair, and a direct view of a neighbor's drying rack. You pay rent on that square footage…

Stand in your doorway and look at your living room. If your eye stops three feet in because a sofa, a bookcase, and a laundry basket are all fighting for…

Somewhere between your kitchen counter and your sofa sits a stretch of floor that was supposed to be a dining area. Right now it probably holds a laundry basket, or…

Most apartment bathrooms were designed by someone who never planned to live with one. You get a 20-inch mirror, a single towel bar, and a vanity that holds maybe six…

Cooking in a small apartment kitchen means doing constant math. Can the cutting board fit next to the coffee maker? If the drying rack moves, does the toaster have to…

Your bed swallows most of the floor. The "dresser" is a chair buried under laundry. Getting to the window means turning sideways past the corner of the mattress. A small…

You've done the shuffle. Sideways past the coffee table, hip against the armrest, apologizing to a guest who's now wedged between the sofa and the bookshelf. Your living room isn't…

You've probably stood in the middle of your living room, turned in a slow circle, and wondered where everything is supposed to go. The sofa sits too close to the…