00:00Hi, my name is Hong. Welcome to My Sweet Digs. I live here with my partner, our dog, and our
00:04cat,
00:05who is a princess. Before you come in, make sure you hit the subscribe button below.
00:10Okay, let's go. I paid $3,775 for a one-bedroom apartment at the very edge of the West Village.
00:17It may seem a little excessive, and at times it does feel a little excessive, but we also live
00:23in a very special building. We live in one of the best neighborhoods in New York City.
00:27We have like a really beautiful courtyard outside, so yes, I definitely think it's worth it.
00:33I love this neighborhood because we've been in here for so long. It's actually going to be five
00:37years soon, and we've just gotten to really know the people. I really love the vibrance of the
00:42community, and another perk is that we also know where all the store cats are. This is our kitchen
00:48where we cook and just stand around. So one of the things I love about my kitchen is that it's
00:54very
00:54open, so it makes the space feel a lot bigger. But unfortunately, the space is actually quite
00:59small. My favorite part about my kitchen is this gift for my friend. It's a cross-stitch that says,
01:04my cat was right about you. I think this is about as me as you can get. I love cross
01:10-stitching. It's a
01:10hobby that just completely defines me. We actually don't have a designated dining area, which is quite
01:16unfortunate, but we just have to stand at the kitchen counter and make do with what we got.
01:22Another reason why we do that is because we just don't want our dog to get into our meals. Another
01:28thing I love about my kitchen are the cat butt magnets that Asher got for me for my birthday last
01:34year. He's so precious about like keeping the cat butts together because he wants them to all play
01:39together. Sometimes behind his back, I like to sneak one off just to like freak him out because I could
01:44be a real butt about it. This is our living space where I spend the majority of my time. It
01:55was really
01:56important for us to have a very functional space. So we needed to have a space for our books as
02:03well as
02:03just a workspace for when we need to work from home and as well as like a really comfortable cozy
02:08living
02:09space. So we took the couch and we just basically split the living room in half and we put the
02:15desk
02:15behind it. We fell in love with this apartment simply because the lighting was really great. As
02:20soon as we walked in, the apartment was flooded with light, which was such a huge relief from our last
02:27place. Our old apartment didn't have any windows at all except for in the bedroom and this one I feel
02:33like it's a total upgrade just because it has so much lighting. It's way bigger. So we actually
02:38have two fireplaces in this apartment which I feel like is very unique for New York. One in the living
02:43room and one in the bedroom. They both do not work which probably explains why we don't get Christmas
02:48presents. Because Santa. One of my favorite pieces in the living room is our dinosaur lamp. We got him
02:55from Target and his name is Broccoli because he's green like broccoli. He also likes to dress up for the
03:01holidays. One of the items that's displayed very proudly in our living room are the presidential
03:06campaign pins. These belong to my partner and he's been collecting them for over, I think he's been
03:12collecting them his entire life. He actually knows like the history and the story behind each pin.
03:18But for me personally, I think it's just a piece that really really represents who he is. So that's what
03:25makes it more valuable for me. Another thing that I like to hang in my apartment is my own photography.
03:29I love capturing the city especially during like moody days when it's raining and it's a little dark
03:36and sometimes they're just special photos to me that I love hanging. The biggest splurge in our
03:41apartment is our article couch. Our last couch was so bad that our dog didn't even want to jump on
03:48the
03:48couch. We definitely wanted something more comfortable, definitely bigger and I'm so happy I got it.
03:57This is our bedroom where I like to say the magic happens because I like to cross stitch in here.
04:03So for the bedroom, we wanted to keep the decor really calming and simple mainly because it just
04:09helps us go to sleep a lot easier and we just don't have too many distractions. We're really lucky to
04:14have
04:15like an actual walk-in closet. We utilize the vertical space by adding more shelving in there.
04:20We were able to fit a whole dresser in there which is really awesome because then we don't have to
04:25put it out here. And our cat, she loves our closet so she likes to sleep in all of our
04:30sweaters which
04:32also means that most of my sweaters have holes in them. My partner and I always refer to our home
04:36as our cat's home because she definitely kind of dictates what we do around here in regards to like
04:43like the decorating. We have like her cat tree, we have like her litter box in here and we also
04:48have a
04:48lot of toys for her. The really great thing about Princessa is that she is actually like a princess.
04:53She's very precious about a lot of things like you have cats that like knock things over, she's the cat
04:59that like pushes them back. And then this is our bathroom. Our old bathroom was literally the size
05:05of a closet where we had the sink over the toilet and we also didn't have a bathtub. So anything
05:12with
05:12a bathtub is definitely an upgrade for us. I would say that my style is very comfortable, warm, and very
05:18functional. One of the things that I also wanted to include in there was just personal touches
05:23that tells a very honest and true story about who we are as a family. My partner and I actually
05:30met in
05:31college and to be honest he really didn't like me at first because the first thing I said to him
05:37was
05:37I was making fun of the book that he was reading. One of the last things that he actually said
05:41to me before
05:42he graduated was that how he's never going to see me again. And ten years later here we are happily
05:48engaged.
05:49Except just kidding because we're not happy.
05:55I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. It's our sense of humor. You can put that in there if you want.
06:00When our lease ended at our last place we actually got our landlord to put us on a month-to
06:07-month lease.
06:07So we had a lot of flexibility in regards to when we have to move out. So I basically stocked
06:14StreetEasy for about eight months before this place came on the market.
06:17This building has like a courtyard and it also has like a koi pond and it's in a gated area.
06:23So it feels like an urban oasis. The thing that made it really feel like home is when we started
06:28adding our personal touches in there. So like all of the pictures that we have and all of the photographs
06:33that we have. And then just everything that like reminds us of like our cat and our dog.
06:37It's an ever-evolving concept to us. So we're always adding in things that we acquire through
06:43traveling or through our vacations. And then just also like additional, you know, even our bookshelves
06:48for example, it's always evolving. So we actually just renewed our lease. So we're going to stay put
06:53for a little bit, but I'm going to be terribly sad the day that we actually have to leave this
06:57neighborhood.
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