At Home: Living Spaces

It’s nothing special, but our little 2-bedroom apartment has been our home for half a year now. One day { several } months ago I had the urge to try my hand at interior photography. The trick, I realized, is to use a tripod, a a narrow aperture (so everything is in focus) and a long shutter time. Of course, the floor-to-ceiling windows in every room of our high-rise apartment made it pretty darn easy to photograph. The result? Our home looks prettier in pictures than it does in real life. Not sure that [houston]’s okay with that, but I am. I like a home that is lived-in but tidy. Still working on the tidy part.

P.S. – Happy Birthday to my wonderful sister Michelle!!!

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  • Happy Birthday to your sister. Gorgeous apartment!

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  • your apartment looks lovely! i am always jealous of other peoples desks…i need to make a little space for myself so i am not constantly hunched over my computer in bed! =) too bad i don't have a decorative bone in my body!!!

    ~xo, jenn

    the stylish housewife

    • Thanks! I'm always nesting, it's a problem….

  • Pffft! Your apartment is way more put together than my house that I bought a year ago. I'm so bad at decorating, no matter how many magazines I buy and blogs that I look at.

    • I'm the same way. I think I just tend to give up and think "my place will never look as chic as X"

  • your place looks awesome
    the kitchen is cool 🙂

  • You have a beautiful home Kristina! Great shots! Thanks for the photography tip! 😉
    xxx

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    • Thanks Gabby – and no problem! Also, remember to adjust the white balance on your camera (if you have a digital SLR there should be a white balance mode for "Custom" –mine is marked K for some reason) and take a picture of something white to calibrate it with!

  • Your apartment looks great!

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  • Love the pictures. And the Domino Book of Decorating pic. 🙂 Love Domino Magazine, wish it would come back…

    • Same here, elle, same here…

  • Ok… now I have desk envy! What a great (and I would imagine, inspiring) workspace. My Mac is at the end of a dining room table – not ideal. Your apartment looks fresh and gorgeous – love it! xx

  • Lynn Z.

    Thanks for sharing! It's so refreshing and inviting to see where you crank out this awesome blog – and it gives us the opportunity to get to know you on a more personal level.

    If I didn't already know you and HB were med students, I would *totally* be able to tell by the clogs! Now if only they came in designer colors and patterns…

    Lynn

  • i love how minimalistic it is, there is not clutter!

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  • Wow, your apartment is beautiful! So neat & tidy, but so comfortable looking, too! Really lovely!

  • I like the way you styled your apartment, very clean and organized yet girly 🙂 I am in the midst of redecorating my office and I am using lots of pinks and whites!

  • PrettyShinySparkly> At Home: Living Spaces: It’s nothing special, but our little 2-bedroom apartment … http://bit.ly/h5R4Nj (#fashion)

  • Your home is so pretty and classy!!! The kitchen is gorgeous and the floor to ceiling windows are such a nice feature. Thanks for the tips on how to photograph interior spaces. I still have yet to master my DSLR camera and it tends to blur out parts of my photos when I shoot in the automatic setting.

  • Hi Krisina–like your home. It's very neutral like mine. Mine is in creams and grays. (probably why I having so much trouble with the color blocking thing!).

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  • Ah! So adorable!! I'm envious of all your natural light!
    And that color organized bookshelf…a girl after my own heart!

    Happy Birthday Michelle!

  • Pilar

    Love you style! I love that vase by your iMac!

  • ooh pretty! I love where you hang your keys!

    Britt+Whit!

  • I really like your place. I'm moving soon, and I'm excited to try some decorating.

  • love this apartment! Especially that kitchen and those fashion prints!

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  • What a beautiful home you have, K! I love to see little sneak peeks into my favorite bloggers' homes. It's so cool to see how someone's personal style is translated into their living space.

  • Okay, so I have to ask… the framed fashion sketches – did you draw those? They are quite stunning – I love pencil sketches with color accents.
    You know what's funny/ironic? I'm an interior designer, yet I've never taken the time to do anything special to my own house… hmmm…

  • Gorgeous space and photos!

  • Your floors are to DIE for, I am currently decorating my first place and I'm obssesed with any form of home decor blogging.

  • Lovely! And I have that same Pier 1 metal wall hanging that I see in the mirror in the last shot! It's not on a wall in my house now, but I'm thinking of dragging it back out again now…

  • WOW cute place….i love that kitchen :)))

    • Thanks Jen! That means a lot coming from someone with as beautiful a home as yours! 🙂

  • Such a beautiful home! I love it!

  • Love how you used your space so wisely and simply. It's beautiful.