Apartment Tour: Entryway

It's finally here!  Apartment tour time!

I know I've been delaying and stalling and teasing about this forever but I finally just determined that I would never get good photos so, take what you get. Thank you for your patience.

We lived in our old apartment for two years. There were some great things about that place like the size and huge closets. But the rent kept going up, our landlord was not nice, we had bug issues, and it was a major pain to get anything fixed. This new place is only about 5 minutes from our old apartment so we're in the same area, it's a two bedroom, and although it's overall a smaller unit it has a much better layout.

The building has lots of perks like handicap/stroller accessible, elevators, bike storage, laundry room, and an immaculate trash room (this is huge for me). It's the cleanest trash room I have ever seen. The super and porter are super nice and have already fixed things we've requested. The building is a co-op which means most of the units are owned by the tenants. This is a plus because the owners have a huge incentive to keep the building nice. And we benefit from that. We moved way back in June and it took a solid two months to get everything organized enough amid an otherwise very busy time of year. We continue to tweak placement and hang things but it's pretty close to where we want it.

Today I'm sharing the entryway! In a house you would call this a foyer but that term is far too glamorous for Brooklyn apartments.

This is what you see when you walk in the door. A tiny room that looks into the living room and the kitchen is on the left. 

There is an end table where we put incoming mail/junk and a place to hang your keys. The other side has a lamp next to a little storage bench.

Below is the view if you are standing in the living room looking into the entry area. The blue door is the front door. It's a metal door so it's magnetic which is fun!

This is looking into the kitchen from the entry area

And this is looking into the entry from the kitchen.

We have two closets in the entry area. One is serving as a linen closet/broom closet/everything else closet. We lost a lot of storage space in this move so I had to get creative. Those striped totes have extra sheets and towels in them. All my tablecloths are hanging and there is black bin on the floor which is full of "back-stock" supplies like toilet paper, toothpaste, Kleenex, etc. The basket on top of the bin is for things I need regular access to like dusters and wipes.

The other closet is a typical coat closet. We also have empty suitcases in there and black storage totes for winter gear (scarves, hats gloves) and summer gear (beach towels, swim suits, sunscreen).

The entry is about three times smaller than the entry in our old apartment. The entry in our old place was basically another room which we had no idea what to do with and was pretty much wasted space for us. This current entry is a pretty normal size for Brooklyn apartments. There is space to take off your shoes and throw your bags and that's it. But that's all I wanted.

This apartment is overall quite smaller than our old apartment but overall a much more functional layout. For me, smaller means cozier and less to keep tidy. We feel like this apartment "fits" us better and so far we're really loving it.