The small stuff is the best stuff🔑
Welcome to a A Tiny Apt., a weekly newsletter about style, design, space, and, ultimately, navigating life + home through change and challenges—be they square footage or otherwise. It’s also a lot about seeing small + occasionally overlooked things differently, more expansively, with more wonder.
A little about me—My name is Christene Barberich (oh, HI:), I’m a writer, advisor, compulsive shelf re-arranger, early-morning walker, design-book hoarder, and a mom, too. In a previous life, I co-founded and was the longtime EIC of Refinery29 where I spent nearly two decades re-framing women’s storytelling in a digital world. Last bit, I’m a lifelong thrifter/collector, so if you’re into that kind of thing, along with hand-me-down quilts, chrome things, vintage Prada, old striped menswear shirts, and essays by Joan Didion, you’ve come to the right place💫. (I’m also obsessive about making playlists for our subscribers, so you’re apt to find those around here, too).
Every week, I’ll be writing to you from my own tiny (750 sf) apartment in Brooklyn to talk about a mix of things, from reimagining shelves and corners, to an insider’s edit for shopping IKEA, to thrifting wonderful/weird gems, to deep-dives into things I can lose my MIND over—reading nooks, old houses, apartment tours, and finding your own center 😎. If you’re not already a subscriber, come and join us—there’s always room for one more…xxCb
