EBK's Profile

Like others have said: no shoes, padded rugs, and general conscientiousness about certain activities (e.g. no vacuuming early or late, low volume on the TV and stereo, no speakers on the floor, etc.). Other than that, people in multi-family buildings should expect and learn to cope with some noise.

My family lives in a big apartment building in Brooklyn, with apartments both above and below ours. Before we moved into our current unit, we lived in another apartment in the same building, and for 2.5 years were harassed daily by the woman in the apartment beneath ours. For the first couple of weeks, it was daily visits to our door to tell us she could hear us walking around -- we appreciated her concerns, but told her that there wasn't much else we could do, since we didn't wear shoes in the apartment, had padded rugs in every room (in excess of the 80% coverage required by our lease), rarely had visitors, and kept reasonable hours (up at 7am, out the door by 8:15, home at 6:30, bed by 11). After several incidents of her pounding and screaming at our door when we stopped responding to her knocking, followed by some intervention by our landlord, she moved on to notes and letters several times per week and DAILY pounding on her ceiling, often accompanied by screaming and profanity. This was usually prompted by our moving about from room to room in our apartment, but also occasionally by one of us accidentally dropping something on the floor, and, several times, to us getting up to pour a glass of water and use the bathroom in the middle of the night.

At our landlord's urging, we even called the police several times, but they (understandably) didn't arrive until well after the call and couldn't do much when they got here because she'd stop pounding and yelling when they pulled up. It was a total nightmare, and when were finally able to move, we experienced an immediate and tremendous improvement to our quality of life.

Viktoria: looks like the Waverly curtain from Target -- http://www.target.com/Waverly-Damask-Window-Panel-Black/dp/B000NKFBII

meatavious - that's the Prouve Standard Chair

http://hivemodern.com/products/?view=sub_product&sid=235

southernwayfarer,

I think those are jury chairs.

http://www.kpetersen.com/jurychairs.htm

This apartment was entered in the most recent Smallest Coolest contest: http://tinyurl.com/2x3hc3.

Fun to see so many more photos of the space.

I read my daily news online, from multiple sources, but I get the print version of the Sunday NY Times.

Whoops, let's try that tinyurl link again:

http://tinyurl.com/2dvkof

southernwayfarer,

Maybe you could use something like this: http://tinyurl.com/2osls3 ?

I enjoy the AT Home & Garden Roundups. Although I do generally read that section myself on Thursday mornings and therefore don't often use the links, I imagine a number folks visit the articles for the first time because they find them here. And I like that the posts on AT provide a forum for comments and discussion.