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Welcome to a A Tiny Apt., a weekly newsletter about personal style, spaces, and, ultimately, navigating life and home through change and challengesābe they square footage or otherwise. Itās also a place to train an editing eye, to see small + occasionally overlooked things differently, more expansively, with more wonder.
A little about meāMy name is Christene Barberich (Hi:), Iām a writer and I also
co-founded Refinery29 back in 2005, spending nearly two decades rethinking womenās storytelling in a digital world. Iām also a lifelong (ie: obsessive) thrifter/collector/room re-arrangerš¬, so if youāre into that kind of thing, along with vintage quilts, Lucie Rie pottery, Old CĆ©line, vintage Levis, and essays by Joan Didion, youāve come to the right placeš«.
Every week, Iāll be writing to you from my own Tiny Apartment in Brooklyn to talk about a mix of things, from reimagining shelves and cool corners, to an insiderās edit for shopping places like IKEA, to thrifting wonderful/weird gems, to deep-dives into things I can lose my mind overāreading nooks, old houses, and oddball (ie: MARVELOUS) outfits, includedš. If youāre not already a subscriber, hereās a quick rundown of how you can join usā¦xxCb