From 2014 to 2018 I lived in a mediocre apartment just south of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I had moved in with my boyfriend (turned husband) and quit my product manager job at Kickstarter to become a math teacher, so I moved to a cheaper neighborhood and upped the square footage. Teaching was so all-consuming that I didn’t take any “real” photos of the place; I can’t find any photos of the hallway I painted green. Here are a few old pics from my barely-used Instagram account during that period.

Hated the floors.

Loved these plastic rugs, but they were hard to keep steady on the hardwood. I moved them to our living room to be held in place by our coffee table, which worked a little better.

The coffee table was a hand-me-down from Kickstarter’s original office in Manhattan, which they cleared out when moving to their new space in Brooklyn. I used it as a bench in our next apartment’s kitchen, and now it’s on our balcony in Israel.

The sun, figurines, and magnet I taped to the wall are from Mexico City.