My Dream New York City Two Bedroom Apartment Tour

What's up, guys? Welcome to the updated New York City apartment tour. We've been living here for over 3 years now, so it's long overdue for this apartment tour. So, with that said, let's just jump right into it. Let's start off with the entryway. So, we have these area wear wall hooks. And usually there's a bunch of coats, but I wanted the space to feel open and airy for this apartment tour. And we just think it's a nice statement piece. It's super abstract and minimal. What you'll notice though throughout the spaces, we don't have a ton of color. Things are typically more minimal, but for the entryway, we figured why not have some fun. We also have this twill checkered entryway rug, and I think it's from Hey. All right. And moving on to this area. Totally different. Gives you more of like a mid-century like farm house kind of vibes, which I like. My wife did a really good job with this space. It's extra cozy. We've got like this wreath because it's holiday season. Christmas is right around the corner. We got this super heavy marble catch all. And you know what's an entryway without a catchall? And then we have another sort of like rustic kind of vintage vibes. This is a gift that we got during our wedding. A family friend gave it to us. She actually knitted this from hand. She's an excellent seamstress. And then the rest is just, you know, some more fake plants. Got the Dyson mounted to the wall. 10 out of 10 recommend. Before we continue today's apartment tour, I want to thank Amazon for sponsoring today's video. The holidays look a little different, and that's because our New York City apartment is smarter than it's ever been before, thanks to our Amazon devices. I've been building a simple but powerful smart home setup using Amazon devices. Each one elevates my everyday routine, and together they transform my space for the holidays. And the Amazon Echo Show 11 is at the heart of all of it. I added the Amazon Fire TV 55 in Omni Minile LED series with 4K Dolby Vision IQ and a super fast 144 hertz display plus the Ring doorbell and the new Kindle Coloroft. What I really appreciate about the Amazon devices is that they were designed to seamlessly work together. And with Alexa Plus, everything just feels intuitive from the moment you set it up. First up is home awareness from right outside of our apartment door. The Ring battery doorbell camera quality really blew me away. >> Someone is at front door. >> I didn't realize how sharp and how clear it could be even in a low lit environment. The Echo Show instantly announces it and pulls up the Ring camera feed even if I'm in another room. I never miss a delivery or a guest. Next up is entertainment. During this holiday season, the Fire TV has become a part of my winding down. The Dolby Vision looks incredible, and the built-in Dolby Atmos audio sounds rich and full. Perfect for cozing up to watch a classic holiday movie. Hey Alexa, show me '90s holiday romcoms. >> Classics like Sleepless in Seattle while you were sleeping. >> Best part is everything is immersive outside the box without any extra equipment needed. It really sounds like our very own mini home theater setup inside our bedroom. My favorite part when it comes to connecting my devices using Alexa Plus is setting up routines. With one Alexa Plus routine, I can transform our entire space into a more festive and holiday feel. Hey Alexa, create a holiday routine where the office lights are green and red. >> Created a routine that sets your office lights to green then red. >> And when I want to unplug or maybe switch up my routine this holiday season, the Kindle Coloroft has been my go-to. I have this new routine that I've been loving where I grab my coffee, I walk into the office, I ask Alexa to set a 10-minute timer, I unlock my Color Soft, and start reading since I've been taking investing and my finances more seriously. The color display is perfect for magazines, recipes, and cozy winter reads. And I love the fact that I can pick some of my favorite segments and highlight them in color. So, yeah, our space definitely feels a lot more connected and smarter than it's ever felt before. If you're interested in any of the devices I use in today's video, be sure to check out my description box for a link that will take you to my Amazon storefront. And thanks again to Amazon for sponsoring this portion of today's video. Moving on to the functionality and storage in this apartment. This is our makeshift pantry. Got everything from dumbbells, Shopright bags, hella toilet paper, got some Lacroy if you want some. And then right next to it is our in-unit washer and dryer. I'm telling you, like to get this in New York City, this is premium right here. Like we don't even care about square footage. We want in-unit laundry. Closing that up. Moving on to this space. You know, this apartment is kind of awkwardly shaped. Like we only have maybe I guess we have two rooms that have four corners cuz you'll see the office is like this weird I don't even know if it's like a pentagon kind of shape. But either way, I still love this space in terms of like walking in and you can see the entirety of the apartment. And when you open up the doors, you can see you can see buildings in Prospect Heights and Fort Green. And then you could also see Williamsburg, which is really cool. This right here is a monitor that I've been using. It's called My Move. It's from LG or the LG Swing monitor. Big fan of this. It's not powered on, but I usually use it for whenever I'm making coffee in the morning, want to catch up on some news, stock market, whatever, watch YouTube videos. Super convenient monitor. And if you have a larger space and are interested in a portable monitor, I highly recommend it. Next, just try not to pay attention to this plant. I mean, you guys have been following the channel for whatever amount of years. This has been a staple in our apartment, but GG's GG's. All right, moving on to the kitchen. This kitchen space is so awkwardly shaped, but we're really grateful for it because we've got a hood with a light and a fan. Like I said, we love to cook and we have some storage and some shelving that we actually built ourselves. Well, actually, not that one. We task rabbit this one. We built this. Pretty much everything you see here, we built from hand because it's IKEA. Either way, this is it's kind of hanging on by a thread. If you like come over here to the corner where the wall is, you'll see it's barely holding on, but it's it's sturdy. It's been here for years. This right here essentially are housing, our coffee, some fruit. This is probably our favorite shelf because we've got so many like kitchen trinkets here. Got got our oven mitts, some fruit. Like we usually just store bananas here and then our other like potatoes, apples, whatever. I'm getting in the weeds here. But either way, this is a Swiss Army knife for our kitchen in terms of storage. And then moving on to, you know, we got dishwasher sink. We've got no garbage disposal. We had it in our previous apartment, but it's whatever. I do really like this faucet, though. And then we got a we actually got a new oven not that long ago, and we've got some Smeg appliances, a toaster here, some drip coffee, which we don't make that often. And then our pride and joy, our espresso virtuo machine that we use every single day. So yeah, I mean that's pretty much the kitchen. And then of course we did not build this massive storage unit, but we did replace our microwave because our last microwave was trash. I think my favorite thing about this kitchen, even though we would love to have an kitchen that's more open concept and actually has an island, I love how minimal this kitchen is. I like the combination of these like monochrome color cabinets with wood finishes. It adds a nice aesthetic or contrast to the space because most of the space is just a bunch of white walls and windows. And the other thing I love is how the fridge and freezer also have the same exact panels as the cabinets. It's such a nice touch and aesthetic. And as you can see, it's consistent throughout the kitchen. Like the gray and wood combination. It's something I'd even consider doing if we owned a home. And of course, can be a tech bro without having tech even in the kitchen. We've got these GOI strip LEDs. And I just usually control them with my phone, which you can control using the GOI app. So, like if you don't feel like turning them on and off physically, you can do it within the app. You'll see a lot of GOI products throughout our space. And not necessarily technology in the kitchen. We really only have like the GOI LED light strips. Um, but we have this Simple Human paper towel holder that also comes with this spray bottle, which I find super convenient. It's definitely one of the best purchases we've made in the last few years. And then last but not least is like our smoothie making and like tea setup, which is this Fellow Electric Kettle. And then we have the Beast Smoothie Blender. We just wanted to go with all black because it's just more minimal. I wish we would have picked another color, but these are the type of products you get and you hold on to them forever. Moving on to our kind of makeshift dining room. Won't spend a ton of time here, but we've got these kind of like cafe boulay seats that we were gifted from Castler about Yeah, actually right around the same time that we moved here. We shot a campaign with them like 3 years ago. And then we recently got this round pedestal walnut table from Amazon. And of course, it's like makeshift wood. We used to have this leaf table. This is like had like weird shape to it as well. And it just didn't work considering the kind of awkward setup that we have here with the kitchen and dining room table in terms of spacing. Just kind of awkward angle. So, we wanted to go with a round table. We don't have too many people eating at the dining room table anyways, but we thought it was also a nice little kind of cozy and modern aesthetic to add to the dining room. All right, so moving on to the smallest hallway you're probably going to ever see. But I guess you can Would you consider it a hallway, bro? I don't know. >> This is a credenza as well that we had for a long time. And we kind of wanted to just blend in with this space, which is why we went with the white credenza bed and breakfast kind of vibe. And we basically just store a lot of our facecloths and toiletries and so forth. And then we've got the bathroom. I mean, no real reason to come in here. Haven't made a ton of changes. Love this massive mirror that the bathroom has and this tube light that spans the entirety of this wall. And then we added another credenza because we just needed more storage because New York City apartments are small and this space is super lived in. We've been here for well over 3 years now. So, you just start accumulating stuff. And then one of my favorite Amazon dupes is this Nesso table lamp. We used to have it nestled in the corner by the window, but we replaced it with a much cooler lamp that you'll see just a few minutes. But yeah, this nice orange mushroom looking lamp adds a massive pop of color, I think, to any space. Add it to your desk, add it to a credenza in a hallway like this, or you can make it a statement piece and put it in your dining room table. And this is the famous IKEA Hovet mirror that we've had for like 5 years. And if we had a bigger space, we love it so much we'd have multiple, but it definitely gives the apartment more of that elevated museum vibe and one of the best purchases. Like this has been with us through like maybe four different apartments. This is our pride and joy right here. This is a side project that really became kind of the heart of our entire space and definitely our living room. But this is the Boaxle wall shelf from IKEA. And you can see here there's a Vitzo magazine. And Vitzo is famous for, you know, shelving systems. And we wanted to install our own version that was a bit cheaper. And this one's from IKEA. And it's literally maybe 120th the amount of money that a Vitzo shelving system costs. But we absolutely love this shelf. What we love about this shelving system is it's organized chaos and also there's little pieces of our life here. So many different moments from like weddings, wedding invites, anniversary pictures, birthday cards, some of our favorite books, um our love for design. Highly recommend this. If I could have done all over it again, I would have added it to this entire space. But moving on to the coziest part of the apartment. Everyone loves this couch. It wasn't expensive at all. We actually purchased it from Costco maybe 6 years ago, 6, seven. So comfortable and it's very broken in. You can probably gauge where I like to sit the most in game veg out to some NFL or NBA games. But what I love about this couch, even though I've gone back and forth with Lee about this, is that I've always wanted a coffee table because it would just kind of make the space feel a bit more modern, you know, a little more spacious and airy, functional. But man, we have guests over and we're just like vibing out watching TV and stuff or me and Lee are chilling. Having this ottoman, it don't get any better than that. like being able to put your feet up over here, view Manhattan, view other parts of Brooklyn, or you want to move closer towards the dining room. We've got a bunch of pillows to try to fill this couch. And um yeah, because I am clumsy, we needed to install the feet so it looks a little less modern than it did the last time we did this tour. All right, this right here, this is fire, right? This is crazy. This is from Miller. So, shout out to Miller for sending this over to us. But this is the piece to have in your living room. It's definitely our centerpiece at this point. Big fan of the stainless steel base and stem. I just think it makes the space look so much more premium and luxurious. Then we have really cool views here, which you'll be able to see a little bit better, but you can see Williamsburg, you can see the East River, you can see Long Island City, and you might be able to see Manhattan. A lot of our view has been blocked by new buildings because if you live in a New York City apartment long enough, that's just inevitable. All right, so moving on to this area. Not a ton has changed outside of like our home theater system and the TV, but we've had this IKEA media console for ever and PlayStation 5. Literally, this is the OG one. This is a Sony Bravia 8 TV and we have the Sony Bravia Bar 8 and just the whole Sony home theater system. RS5 speakers behind the couch. It creates this incredibly immersive audio experience. So, it feels like we're at a movie theater. Surround sound. It's so cool. You can control what you want to hear. So, if you're watching a football game, if you want to just hear the stadium and not commentators, you can do that. If you want to hear the commentators and not really hear the stadium, you can do that as well. Or hear both. It's really, really cool. This little donut, Vanderblick, Vanderblick IKEA donut that we got off Facebook Marketplace. We've had it for a few years now. And then it ties together well with this wall. We've had this forever. So, if you've even watched the videos like like 3 years ago, we had this got a couple pictures. This is just the New Yorker poster board that you can get at pretty much any market in New York City. They mass-produced those. However, we've got some pictures from local photographers and our friend Danny that took this insane mountain landscape and I think this was in Montana. And these other pictures are from local artists. This was shot in China. Love that picture. And then this is a shot of the Empire State Building. And it's even timestamped and signed. >> Was that that something? >> Uh, you know what? I love modern and clean. My wife likes plushy and comfortable. And you know, it works well. Yin and Yang. Basically just holds the remote and drinks so we don't spill anything. And I'm always losing the remote. So that's why we got this for her Stanley cups. All right, moving on to the bedroom. Absolutely love what we've done with our bedroom space. It's so much more put together. Before we were just like whatever about the bedroom cuz we would just come here to sleep. And we do have a desk set up in a corner here for Lee. He wanted to actually make our bedroom nice. Don't have any sort of artwork, but I love these halo lights that we got from IKEA. Got this castlery nightstand which is great for like storage. And then the main furniture piece in our bedroom, which is the Rochelle performance bed frame from Castler. We just really like this Boulay headboard. It's really soft and comfortable. We just quite frankly got tired of our Walmart bed frame. And then we have this article leaf six drawer double dresser in white oak. We recently got this and we're super proud of this purchase, but we're really proud of what we've done in the bedroom, making it super comfortable to watch TV for lead to work from home and for us to just kind of kick back and relax at the end of the day. And then we have the Amazon Fire TV. I think my favorite thing about the Amazon Fire TV, this is the 65-in Omni Miniledd series for the for Amazon's Fire TV, and I just love that it has voice commands. And then my favorite space in the entire apartment, the home office, is where the magic happens and where the work gets done. We do have a proper home office video that we're going to be releasing in a few weeks, but I figured I'd give you guys a nice little sneak peek of the updated home office. So, starting, you know, with this wall, not a lot has changed. Our picture frames unfortunately broke in such a great timely manner right before this video. We've got the Stindig wall calendar. Had this for years. Don't really use it. It's really just aesthetic. Sometimes I will take a peek to look at the date, but I mean I've got a smartwatch, a phone, like I don't know. This is a more recent addition. This is a Montana wire cube that we installed because I wanted to add another dimension to the space and actually take advantage of the amount of wall real estate that we have. Walls were just too white and boring. These are actually all smartphone boxes. So, you could get an idea of how many phones we've been reviewing the last couple years. And this is actually like 70% of the phones that we have here. This is a coffee table that we got. And these two actually came as a pair as a set. You don't even need to use a remote to turn the lights on anymore because this is a real smart home, real smart office. Hey Alexa, turn on all the home office lights. Make them 100% brightness and white. All office lights are now on at maximum. >> Got to love making routines with Amazon Alexa. Now, the desk. I'll go into this more once we actually have a home office tour, but this is a spout sitto stand table from Herman Miller and it's in this really monochromatic like matte white finish. Absolutely love this new change to our desk setup. This is the Herman Miller Aeron chair and it has a stainless steel frame and base. I think it goes really well with a more white backdrop. We've had this drawer for forever. We've had these IKEA pegboards forever just to basically house some gear. And then we've had these IKEA floating shelves for years as well where we just kind of randomly put things up here. And then of course we've got our setup, you know, accessories for my headphones, some MagSafe charging stations, new keyboard from Logitech that I unboxed and posted on Tik Tok. the old lamp from Herman Miller and then of course the YouTube 100K subscribers silver plaque that probably one of my most like proud accomplishments ever thanks to you guys. If you're a tech creator, you got to have a Husky drawer. There's so many different compartments here. There's this massive one that houses everything from like our phones, desk setup, accessories, wellness, tech, this the body minigun, and then we have the open spaces shoe rack that we've had for a long time. And then of course this closet that I'm not going to show you because it's kind of embarrassing. All right, so that wraps up the New York City apartment tour 2.0 here in Brooklyn. Really proud of how this space has come together. It's the longest we've ever stayed in one unit, so it's very lived in. And when we move, we're going to kind of shed a little bit of a thug tear. I literally have to catch a flight in less than 3 hours, and I haven't even started packing yet. You guys know how it goes. You ain't got to go home, but you got to get the out of here. All right. Peace.