For all of you “living in a nutshell” nesters out there,  you can feel my pain when I tell you it is hard enough to fit things nicely in a small space and even harder to move locations and make it all work equally well again. I owned a small apartment in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, that was all mine—all 620 square feet of it.  Hey, Brooklyn, how ‘ya doin'?”

But then I recently moved back to the city into a new rental apartment that promised amazing views and 130 more square feet!  That is a photo of my cat Scooter on moving day.

 I thought decorating was going to be a piece of cake---WRONG! The layout of the new apartment is strange and has a few odd angles to deal with and after taping -off where all of my big pieces of furniture should go I realized my biggest obstacle was the bedroom door. 

I re-purposed my two brown shantung silk drapes and hung them as a divider between the living room and the bedroom. Talk about instant glamour—the silk drapes play off of the gray walls so well and every time I enter the bedroom it feels romantic and special.  

 

I just hung a curtain rod on the bedroom side of the door and baste stitched the drapes together so you would see the right side of the fabric from both rooms. I installed a curtain tieback and placed it a little higher on the wall so I could really have that voluminous, draped look. Voila!

 

 

 

When it opened it blocked off a big part of the wall where my mirror was going to go. And since it is a rental I asked management to remove the door and keep it in their storage.  They thought it was a strange request but they had no problem with it.