This Tiny NYC Rental Is the Perfect Combo of “1960s Meets 2000s NYC Rom-com”
Anna Meyer has been renting this super small studio apartment in Manhattan for a year, and she shares it with her cat, Pippa. Today, the 200-square-foot home is best described as chic and cozy, “with the perfect combination of 1960s meets 2000s NYC rom-com.” But when Anna first moved in, she described the tiny rental as quite “gray, cold, and dark.”
“I thought living in such a small space would make me lose my sanity, but an advantage of such a small space is it’s a cinch to decorate. I’ve made it somewhere I really enjoy spending time,” begins Anna.
“My favorite hobby is romanticizing. So in my never-ending quest to live my life as a ’90s NYC rom-com character (think Nora Ephron, or Nancy Meyers), I decorated my home with that energy in mind. I’m also a big fan of mixing styles. I LOVE 1960s design but also can’t help but be influenced by the very French feeling of my neighborhood, the Upper East Side of Manhattan. So I’d also describe my home as mid-century-Parisian (is that a thing?). I even have a bunch of decor that came straight from the set dec department of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel!”
Decorating in a studio apartment isn’t always easy, but Anna suggests keeping to just three colors in a small space. “One dominant color (in my case the white walls that the apartment came painted as) and two complementary colors that you can then layer different shades of to make everything come together,” Anna writes. “I cannot count the number of different shades of pink and green within my apartment … It’s a lot. And then also because my apartment is SO small I did something possibly a little crazy … I added pops of brown to color coordinate with my cat because she’s always visible in here … lol.”
Resources
- Hanging light is a ceiling medallion and plug in hanging light cord — Amazon hung up with command strips
- Curtains — Amazon
- Lampshade — Amazon
- 1960s hope chest — Facebook Marketplace
- Bag, pink poster, and pink glass bowl — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Mirror — Target
- The green art piece is something I saw in the TV show The Good Place (in Michael’s office) and had printed and put in that thrifted frame!
- Peel-and-stick floor tiles in the kitchen — Amazon
- B. Altman bag on the fridge — Maisel set decorating department!
- Purple leather chair — The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Vintage ads — Were a tweet I saw years ago. I took a screenshot of the photos and had them printed out and framed.
- Frame over the couch — Thrifted, and the print inside came from Etsy.
Thanks, Anna!
This tour’s responses and photos were edited for length/size and clarity.
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