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I'm surprised the conversation here has been so focused on acquiring things, when "de-studentfying" your apartment/home and growing up has just as much to do with getting rid of things, if not more. When it's time to grow up and have an adult home, get rid of the following:

Strings of Christmas lights indoors
Posters without frames (frame them, even with cheap Target frames)
Ratty, threadbare towels
Milk crate furniture
That chipped brass torchiere style lamp in the corner that leans to one side
Your 200 thread count dorm room bedding
That flattened, ancient futon on a tubular metal frame

And I agree, poaching from Mom's house defeats the whole point. Secondhand garbage from your childhood is exactly what makes a college students' apartment look like a college student's apartment. Having a grown up place means cutting the apron strings, dumping the crap and getting your own stuff that's YOURS.

I love following AT's Facebook feed, but the photos from this Target party (pretty unrelated to home design and decor and definitely something most AT readers really wouldn't care about) INVADED their FB feed for a day and really garbaged things up. I was ready to block them entirely if I had to see one more photo. Seriously. Whoever at AT is responsible for their social media presence needs to re-assess their content.

I found a DWR Sussex credenza in white, in perfect condition, for $400 on Craigslist a year ago. You can also buy the new one and have it painted white.

Best housewarming gift anyone gave me for my first apartment: a big, heavy, iron Dutch oven (doesn't have to be Le Crueset but nice if it is). I was pretty broke back then and made lots of rice/beans, soups and stews in that thing to eat all week. Also it's good for roasting a chicken and slow braising on stovetop. I still have it!

I am SO pleased to see this post.

Remember, apartment dwellers in NYC and beyond, a zip code is a zip code is a zip code. It's just geography!

I'm so stoked to see this, because I am a former apartment/tiny house dweller with an eye for modernist/minimalist design, just like many of you. I too, used to scoff at posts like this, until -

I fell hard for a fella, who is saddled with partial ownership of a similar family property in Beverly Hills. After a few years of long commutes to see each other (across town in L.A. is just that), I moved into his albatross, a sprawling 4 bedroom rambler in a very fancy part of BH. It's a crumbling beauty that needs TONS of work. There are lots of family homes like this here, that have sat neglected since their glory days, with dusty brocade drapes and tangled shag carpet.

Everything I owned, my entire modernist pod house, fits into a SINGLE BEDROOM here. I probably should have blogged this whole experience. It's been crazy.

Don't judge by zip code. I'm just like most readers here, but my circumstances are unusual. We are picking away at renovating and updating this heap, and I turn to AT often for inspiration, but live in FEAR of ever posting a house tour because of the harsh judgement by people who don't know the whole story. So Thanks, Molly and family. Your home is gorgeous and functional and I applaud your efforts to preserve it and show it off, zip code be damned!!! Maybe I'll have the same courage some day!

Noooooooooooooo

SUCH a cliche now. This is right up there with vintage typewriters and antlers.

MAKE IT STOP!!!!

I don't know what the rest of your style/decor looks like but if it were mine, I'd go MCM/mod. Paint the fence and deck white. Level the ground flush and lay down AstroTurf. Find a 50s/60s little patio set. String up colorful mini-lanterns. Plant herbs in classic bullet planters. Get a tiny BBQ grill for the porch. Along the fence, put up trellis and plant clematis or morning glories, for pretty privacy. Make it bright and cheerful, don't clutter it up with too much junk

Here's the thing. If it's a joke, it's definitely not very clever, and certainly not worth alienating so many faithful readers. Maxwell's little note, basically belittling our comments as "zingers," seems flippant, arrogant, and strangely oblivious to how seriously some people regard this once-amazing website. Baffling. It's like they WANT to self-destruct.

Interesting. Readers, please consider emailing the editors themselves with all your complaints. When they put up a bone-headed post a few weeks ago featuring a children's "play teepee" that was deeply offensive to Native Americans, I (AT's token Native reader) strenuously objected to the editors via e-mail, and the post was taken down after I threatened to spread it to the online Native community. Here are their contact addresses:

Janel Laban
Executive Editor
janel@apartmenttherapy.com

Jason Loper
Assistant Editor
jason@apartmenttherapy.com

Gregory Han
Tech Editor
gregory@apartmenttherapy.com

Carrie McBride
Family Editor
carrie@apartmenttherapy.com

YES to pasta carbonara!!! It is a lot harder to make than it reads in recipes.

How-to properly scramble eggs, the slow method a la Ramsay.

Some myth-busting, from actual published and certified experts, on common food safety issues.

How-to poach a side of salmon. Simply, with wine & herbs.

A good guide to making a kitchen-warming gift box for a young person in their first new place, cooking for themselves for the first time.

Reviews of healthy stuff we're all a little leery of trying, like all the various butter and milk alternatives, gluten free products, vegan stuff, honest reviews from epicurious foodies!