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I like to say my apartment is shabby chic. But some of my more meticulous friends will tell you it’s just shabby.

They may have a point, because my home is nothing like those magazine or online images of spotless interiors with gleaming surfaces — nor do I want it to be. To me, those pictures do not represent the perfect interior, but a sterile one, lacking the human element. Yes, even those pictures with a perfectly styled blanket draped over a chair and a single coffee mug on the table. Mismatched towers of cookbooks and novels on a side table, a wine glass in the bathroom, crumbs on the kitchen counter — these are the things that give a space character and make it feel lived in.

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