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Apartment Therapy, the book, recommends two easy ways to make your not-so-perfect apartment, and matching life, feel newly cozy. Here’s how to do them both
Simple as it looks, homemade lentil soup is good for the home, and the soul
Delving deeper into my copy of Apartment Therapy, author Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan’s guide to transforming your life by fixing your space (also a blog), has me almost ready to take the plunge. Guests are visiting this summer, there’s a relative abundance of free time and so the eight-week cure seems doable — nearly.
The Eight-Week Apartment Cure
Gillingham-Ryan warns readers not to start the process until they’re ready to commit, and with other failed projects littering my desk, I’m understandably wary of going in half-baked. There are two recommendations for week one, though, that I’m ready to start on right away. Coincidentally, they’re the quickest and easiest ways I know to enjoy a temporary boost in mental wellbeing.
Two Ways to Instantly Brighten and Warm Your Home
Lentil Soup: the Easiest Soup in the World
I’ve been cooking this soup since university, but nobody in my family liked it until we spent some months in Japan, where Western home-cooked meals were suddenly the height of exoticism. Meat makes it even better: I recommend Harvest brand farmer’s sausage, sold locally. I like this soup for four reasons. It costs pennies, is infinitely mutable, is practically foolproof, and even if your larder is bare, you probably still have the ingredients on hand.
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