Not sure if living alone is for you? Browse through some of our best practices for creating and enjoying a solo living space. 5 Steps to Creating Your Solo Bedroom There’s an art to designing a single woman’s boudoir. How to Create a Solo Dream Home No matter where you are, you can create the […]
Is a young woman in your life getting ready to strike out on her own? Here’s The American Spinster’s Top 5 list of best housewarming gifts for single women. The Bachelorette Pad Housewarming Party? In the world of the white picket fence, young adults get married, move into their first home, and receive housewarming gifts […]
The solo woman’s bedroom is different from the coupled woman’s, or the would-be coupled woman’s for that matter. If you’re a footloose and fancy-free woman, here are five great tips to create your very own single woman’s bedroom. What Makes a Single Woman’s Bedroom Different? The goal of any bedroom is to facilitate a peaceful […]
Is your “Dream Home” Pinterest board languishing while you’re stuck in a studio apartment? Are you longing for the day when you’ll finally be able to create your ideal home in a spacious single-family home? Spinsters, I have good news. There is only one step in between where you are now and living in your […]
I’ve written peripherally about this before, but today I want to devote an entire post to this novel idea. So here it is: You should enjoy your home. Groundbreaking, isn’t it? I know it’s not a new idea, but it’s something that people say they do, or want to do, and never actually do. Unless […]
American Spinster How-To: Feeling Safe At Home Since the previous blogs covered finding an apartment, home safety seemed like the next best logical step. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about feeling unsafe when they’re at home alone. This is rarely a problem for me, but the first few nights in a new place […]
Buy Your Life In keeping with the recent theme of renting an apartment, I thought I’d add a few words about renting versus buying – in the spiritual sense. You know that Dido song, “Life for Rent?” I always thought that I would love to live by the sea To travel the world alone and […]
American Spinster How-To: Your First Apartment Part II: Making Your Selection Last week I talked about 6 things to look at while surveying your apartment options. This week we’ll go over what to do when you’ve narrowed your list down to a few places. First, you’ll want to call the offices of your top picks, […]
American Spinster How-To: Your First Apartment Part I: Finding The Right One So it’s time to move out. Or at least, you want it to be time. Deciding on a place to live can be overwhelming. You don’t want to settle for the first empty unit in Cracktown, but you also don’t want to blow […]