A FIPS GUIDE TO MAKING YOUR SHITTY APARTMENT LOOK NICE

Making your shitty Park Slope apt look less shitty is actually way easier than you might think...and I'm gonna teach you how. 

If you own your place, you can get REAL creative and do all sorts of crap, but today we're going to focus on all the renters in the house. Now renters are somewhat limited as they can't just do whatever the hell they please in their apt cause of security deposits-n-shit, but lots of people use this as the perfect excuse to do absolutely nothing. 

LAME.

Every time you open your front door you should feel super excited to be walking into your own special space-- like little unicorns are dancing in your eyeballs and kitty cats are purring in your ears. if not, read on. 

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Giant robot-like apartment building coming to 5th avenue!

This is how I want it to look.

Park Slope's own 5th avenue will soon be the site of a shiny new apartment building. And not just a regular, run-of-the-mill shiny building -- it will be a MEGA SHINY one that will probably look less like a building and more like a robot. This is because of its environmentally-powered awesomeness. That's right, bitches. This building will be run solely by the power of the sun and wind. Pretty badass, right?

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An English synthpop musician bought Jenna Lyons's Townhouse

Photo via www.fashionologie.comJ. Crew President Jenna Lyons's 4-story, 7-bedroom townhouse is officially off the market. 178 Garfield Place, with it's "plaster cornices and medallions, aged pine floors, seven restored limestone mantels, 3.5 bathrooms, an eat-in cook’s kitchen, a large private terrace and a cellar that has been converted to a media room for entertaining" -- has been sold to English Synthpop musician Vince Clarke (welcome to the nabe, VC!). 

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Here's Some Apartment Porn for the Vitamin D crowd

Photo via The Brownstoner

You know that tiny sliver of sunlight that spills into your apartment in the late afternoon? You know, the one that your landlord describes as "sun-drenched," and charges you an extra $400 in rent to experience? Well, if you can handle the jealousy of a high dose of Vitamin D, check out the light-filled layout of this Park Slope beauty.

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Hey look! A map of celebrities who live in Park Slope (Except they probably don't)!

We here at FIPS have made no secret about the fact that we love a good celebrity sighting in the 'hood. So when Gothamist linked to apartment rental search site Rentenna's star map of Manhattan and a little slice of Brooklyn, I jumped to see which famous Slopers made the cut.

And that's when I saw it: Anne Hathaway, Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo, and Steve Buscemi. 

What the what?

Listen, Rentenna. I don't mean to be all whatever about this, but you're a little off here. Sure, you were right about Steve Buscemi. He's Park Slope Royalty. But despite what we said back then, Anne Hathaway technically lives in Gowanus. And I'm almost positive Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo do not live in Park Slope. Believe me -- this is something I would know. I spent two hours yesterday stalking the area around The Good Wife filming because I love a good celebrity sighting (If I'm wrong about Nick and Vanessa, tell me immediately because I have a serious supply of 98 Degrees merchandise that needs signing). 

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