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Gorgeous plants and greenery! They add so much to the life & soul of this apartment. I also love all the textiles.

These are definitely the greenest-thumbed people ever in an AT House Tour... Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful space!

It's amazing how spacious it feels for just 480 square feet!

Would absolutely love to see a full House Tour plan of the overall apartment layout.

Beautiful! Your house tour exudes elbow grease, loving care, thoughtful planning, and personal style.

I especially love that rug in your bedroom. The color is so rich, and it proves that classic Turkish/Oriental rugs in a modern space can be stunning.

Clearly, Apartment Therapy needs an official Philadelphia outpost! More, please...

Fun, quirky, colorful, and unapologetically home-y. It's got a lot of charm and personality. Looks like a great place for having friends over for casual dinners and just hanging out. My only wish for this (and most) house tours: a floor plan so we could visualize the entire layout.

Thanks so much for sharing your place!

An amazing space. It feels real, personal, creative, lived-in. It doesn't feel staged, curated, or oozing with crazy amounts of money. Thank you for sharing this.

It's always refreshing when AT presents a house tour that isn't rife with the same old stale Dwell-y/MidCenMod/Room & Board/DWR crud.

Whatever you decide, take your time. Buy one piece at a time and live with it for a while before you make your next decision. Let your space grow slowly, in an organic way.

And please consider keeping your new place relatively spare! It's so beautiful. Too much stuff (even really awesome stuff) will spoil it.

(I'm not advocating total minimalism... just resist the temptation to fill it with stuff.)

we got rid of cable two years ago and have never looked back. We saved a ton of money, and Hulu Netflix give us plenty of great stuff to watch. Another benefit: we now watch a lot less TV than we used to... more time for real life.

Yes, sometimes it's mildly annoying to miss a show you really want to see, but 99% of the time, I really don't care.

This house tour is unlike any I've seen before on AT. It's refreshing and thought-provoking to see something so different from the norm.

Karla clearly puts a lot of thought and love into her home. There's a poetic simplicity here that we rarely see on AT. (We often see contemporary/MCM-style minimalism on AT, but Karla's aesthetic is something else entirely.)

There's something about this home that stirs people's emotions. It makes me think of a Tennessee Williams play -- something delicately beautiful, ephemeral, and inward-looking. It's a perfect haven from the world.

Karla, thanks so much for sharing. Your home is exquisite and unique. AT, this is a great tour.

Thanks for showing us this great home. Regarding the tour itself, there were some lovely pix, but next time please include fewer close-ups of cute stuff and more photos that show entire rooms/layout.

what a unique and lovely space. reading the backstory made it especially interesting. sounds like a complete transformation.

i really like the tiles in the bathroom and also the ones on the kitchen wall. and i covet your built-in bookcases; they are so wonderfully functional and also frame the space beautifully.