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You know what they say about New York City "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere".   It is a place of opportunity.  Just ask the heaps of people who are tempted to move here and the millions who are already here despite the crowd and the cost which are most often overlooked because the pros are too hard to resist. 

 

No matter which neighborhood or borough you live in, #NYC always has something to offer no matter what time it is, all year round - day in, day out. You can go on for months not going to the same restaurant twice.  You can walk to Times Square every single day and you would never have the same experience.  The art and culture scene are just unmatched.  From the museums, to the gorgeous libraries, to the broadway theaters, to the night life,  there is no reason to stay home and do nothing in the city that never sleeps.  

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Then the pandemic hit.  New York City became the epicenter of the #Covid-19 virus.  In one instant,  the city that never sleeps took a pause, a long pause...  People who are transplants cried their way back home and us real New Yorkers resiliently stayed and hoped for the best.

 

Months went by and all I can do was stare at the walls of my place.  I'm lucky enough that I live in a spacious 3 bedroom & 2 bath near Central Park.  A walk in the park kept me sane.  But being at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week I couldn't help but notice every uneven wall, all the chipped paint, the unmatched pillow cases,  the rusty nails on the chair.   I had the urge to fix everything, to paint all the walls, to change my whole interior. 

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And then just like that, REIMAGINING SPACES was born.  

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Feb 27, 20221 min read

Purse storage idea for small spaces (part 2)

A woman can never have enough purses (or shoes or hats) if you ask me. So I built another space to organize my remaining purses (did I tell you I have more in boxes tucked away in my closet? We will skip that, for now at least.



We pay so much money on our beloved purses so I figured why not put them some of them on display. If you want to see how I store and organize the purses that I currently use, click this link.


First I took down the vanity shelf that I installed a while back.


Then cleaned, spackled any holes or imperfection on the wall and sanded it to prepare for the shelves that I will be putting up.



I tailored my own shelves by making them myself which allowed me to meet my needs. Now this is my first time making them so I know I didn't make them perfectly. I was pushing to make thin floating shelves without using brackets but that didn't work out too well. I just kept going and worked with what I got, with sturdy brackets that is.



I taped the sides of the wall to prepare for painting the shelves. I painted using Benjamin Moore regular semi-gloss white paint.



And here's the finished product.




Click the photo below to take you to the the part 1 of my purse organization storage idea for small spaces.




Feb 27, 20221 min read

Purse storage idea for small spaces (part 1)

There are multiple ways to organize and store your purses. For me I needed a practical way where I can pull the purses that I regularly use and put some of them on display (there's a different link for this). And those that I use infrequently, I just left them in the boxes they came in, stored in their original dust bags tucked away in my closet.



For city dwellers like me, doors come in handy especially if you don’t have any extra space in your closet to store your purses. I found this over the door hanger on Amazon.



It came in a pack of two, no assembly needed. They hang over the door and came with hooks that you can move up and down easily. The bag rack takes up very little space and can fit any size of doors.



You can adjust and reposition the hooks to allow space between your purses, depending on the size (height & width) and switch them according to your preference.



This over-the-door rack organizes the purses that I am currently using for the season and it's so easy to just switch to another purse if I change my mind on what I want to wear. It also doesn't hurt that it takes up very little space and doesn't take any floor space which is very much needed when you live in New York City.



To see the video for the hat wall - click this link

To see the video for the shoe wall - click this link

To see the purse storage idea for small spaces part 2 - click this link



Feb 26, 20221 min read

Hang up your hats

I can't say that I'm an avid hat collector but I had purchased a few hats in the last few months that I needed to figure out a proper way to store them. I love the idea of hanging them on the wall as storage and display at the same time.



MATERIALS USED:

Anchor drywall nails

White plastic chain rope

Wooden clothespins





I had that bare wall next to my shoe wall that I couldn't put any

shelves on because I didn't want the door hitting them every time I come in and out of the bedroom. Since my shoes are on full display why not do it with my hats too. I'll put the link of how I made my shoe wall at the bottom of this post.





First I measured the size of my bare wall. I used dry anchor wall nails on each side where I will be hanging each plastic chain ropes.



I found these white plastic chain ropes in my storage. Not sure why I have them but I figured out a way to use them. I cut them to the size of my measured wall - multiplied by 3. Please note that you can also use a regular rope or any kind of cord or string to do this.


Then I used wooden laundry pins that have a flat front because I didn't want to make any indentation on the rims of my hats.


And that's it! You now have an organized hat of walls.



Here's the link of the process of how I made my shoe wall

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