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On this week’s episode of Sweet Digs, we check out the Cobble Hill apartment of Jessica Tarantino. The 30 year old NYC resident moved to the city to shorten her commute to an IT company in Manhattan. Press play on the latest episode of Sweet Digs to tour her mid-century modern space!

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Transcript
00:00Hey guys, my name is Jessica. Welcome to my sweet digs. I call this place my happy
00:03apartment because of all the natural light that it gets. But before you come
00:07in, subscribe below. Okay great, come on in. My apartment is located in Cobble
00:12Hill in Brooklyn. I pay $2,800 a month which I think is a lot but given the
00:17fact that I have a lot of space and storage here I really don't mind paying
00:21it. I have about 700 square feet which kind of gives me enough space to have
00:25all my furniture and then move around a little bit too.
00:32My favorite room in this apartment is definitely the kitchen. Having separate
00:37space for like having cocktails set up or having food set up really helps to not
00:42have it interrupt kind of the hangout area which is usually in the living room. I
00:46have a bar cabinet that's in the living room but when I'm gonna be having
00:49people over, especially a large group, I'll kind of take some of the alcohol and
00:53set up a cocktail station in here and so everyone can either come in and mix
00:56their own drinks or I'll mix a big batch and it kind of keeps the mess in the
01:00kitchen. Here is the bathroom. One of the best things about the bathroom here is
01:05this big closet. Not only does it hold my bathroom stuff but I also have some
01:09water cases and kitchen storage down in here. One of the nice little added touches
01:14that I have in here is this picture of my mom on her wedding day and it's just
01:20kind of something that I like to look at. Kind of makes an ordinary routine a
01:23little bit special. The pet peeve that I have about this apartment which is
01:27probably the thing that I notice every day is the fact that there is no outlet
01:30in the bathroom. That was something I didn't really think to look for when I
01:35was looking at the apartment. It's kind of one extra thing I have to do in the
01:37morning running the extension cord into the kitchen.
01:42And then into the living room it's nice open space really bright and happy. I did
01:49purchase a lot of artwork over the last year. It just so happens that a lot of
01:54the art that I got is boobs. It wasn't intentional it just kind of happened
02:00everything that I picked out kind of had boobs and then I decided to just embrace
02:03it and put it all up. One of the pieces is just over kind of the bar area.
02:08Really weird and odd but I love coffee and I thought it was like perfect for in
02:12here. Over here I have the living room closet so to get into this I do have to
02:18move this chair but it slides pretty easily and then this is my one of my
02:24clothing storage closets so all my coats are down here and then I have all my
02:28summer dresses stuff up there. It does have some more storage and it goes pretty
02:33far back so again a lot of storage for a New York City apartment and I really love it.
02:38My home style is definitely mid-century modern. I'm heavily influenced by the
02:4360s and 70s and I think it comes through in the way that I've styled this
02:47apartment. It's got the wood and the leather, really rich colors. The most
02:50expensive piece in my apartment is the couch. It was $3,000 and it was something
02:56that I was eyeballing for about two years before I actually went and purchased it
03:00and I was really happy with it and it kind of definitely fits into the space and
03:04the style here. Most of the pieces in this apartment are from West Elm and the
03:09West Elm style is definitely categorized as mid-century modern. Into the bedroom I
03:16can walk fully around my bed which is really great and kind of comfortably get
03:19ready in the morning without having to either squish between furniture or kind of
03:25you know have to roll over the bed which a lot of my friends have to do. These are my
03:29hats. I didn't really have anywhere to put them so I decided to hang them up on the wall and
03:33it's kind of a
03:34added little touch that I have in the bedroom. This was my mom's triple dresser.
03:38As you can see it's got a lot of storage and it definitely holds some sentimental
03:41value to me. This funky artworks actually my best friend and I. This is her and this
03:46is me and it's a really weird piece but I absolutely love it and it makes me laugh
03:50and giggle and think of her every time I see it. Every time I do laundry or kind of
03:55need to throw stuff this is the chair that things get thrown on. So this is the
03:59first time I've seen it in a year. This is where I keep the bulk of my clothes that I
04:04wear day to day and again just like my decorating style is very 60s and 70s my
04:09wardrobe is as well. In my next apartment I would love to have an in-unit washer
04:14dryer. Living in New York City it is something that is a huge perk to have but
04:19kind of hard to find especially for me given the fact that I don't even have
04:23laundry in my building. It is a little bit of a challenge. So you guys saw what I
04:28did in the living room. I painted it and it really gave it a lot. I wanted to do
04:31something in the bedroom too. So these are my wallpaper options. Comment below
04:35which you like best. When I called to make the appointment to see this
04:38apartment the real estate agent wanted me to come during the day but I told her
04:41that I was gonna be working it'd be really tough for me to kind of get out
04:44during the day. But she insisted that I see it when the sun was coming in and she
04:49was right. There was a ton of natural light coming in and it just was very bright
04:53and happy and I was sold on it. Before I moved into Brooklyn I was living out on
04:58Long Island and commuting every day and that was definitely taxing after a year.
05:03I knew I wanted to move and I found this place which is only about 20 minutes from
05:07work now. I have a lot more time for other things that I have to do whether
05:11it's just kind of be errands and running around or if I want to meet friends or go
05:16to dinner. It's definitely given me a lot of time back. Now that I'm here I'm
05:20definitely really happy.
05:25Well thanks for stopping by and checking out my sweet digs. I hope you enjoyed
05:28seeing my apartment. To subscribe click here and to see more videos click here.
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