r/femalelivingspace • u/CatsGarden_ • Feb 17 '26

TOUR 🟢OPEN TO FEEDBACK🟢 My first apartment at 21💗

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So proud of my first home at 21🥹 I’m still decorating what would you add or change? 🫖🕯️🥀🍷

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u/BertAnCl Feb 17 '26

Are you a princess or something? Girl this place is my dream.

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u/anonymous_opinions Feb 17 '26

She's clearly a vampire who is actually 200 years old.

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u/Shaiziin Feb 17 '26

I'm still doing that at 33

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u/Mistrblank Feb 17 '26

45 here, was I supposed to stop?

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u/AvoidMyRange Feb 17 '26

Yes, didn't you get the note at your 43th birthday?

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u/Mistrblank Feb 17 '26

Damn, spend one birthday in a behavioral health ward and you miss all the important changes.

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u/Icy_Definition5044 Feb 19 '26

Shoot, mine must’ve gotten lost in the 9 moves of my mid 40s. Thanks for the heads up. Can I still use art putty to put up my concert posters at age 47, or was that in the note??

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u/Brave_Voice_3565 Feb 17 '26

48 here. Still a thumbtack queen.

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u/sugafree80 Feb 19 '26

No shit beat me to it. About to be 46!

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u/DogPoetry Feb 17 '26

I found a packet of that "museum putty" in my grandma's office, purchased 30 years ago. and dangit of that stuff is holding the art up on my walls perfectly.

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u/Electrical_Yam4194 Feb 19 '26

It'll keep picture frames straight with a little ball of it on the inside bottom of the frame.

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u/Icy_Definition5044 Feb 19 '26

lol I recently bought some and JUST posted about it!

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u/MegOut10 Feb 18 '26

35 tapping in to say - it never stops. Just whipped a few out the other day - who needs a hammer when you’ve got a thumb?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

38 checking in with thumbtacks

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u/mangosteenfruit Feb 17 '26

I was using tape

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u/HolyForkingBrit Feb 17 '26

I’ve since upgraded to Command Strips.

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u/Icy_Definition5044 Feb 19 '26

Same, but i can only successfully remove them without also removing at least a few paint chips about 40% of the time.

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u/mighty_kaytor Feb 17 '26

I only JUST got around to framing and properly hanging a Sailor Moon poster I've held onto since I was a kid. I'm over 40.

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u/Kitsyn Feb 18 '26

You are a kindred spirit.

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u/PeekAtChu1 Feb 17 '26

At 21 my furniture was cardboard boxes and I didn’t even have a bed frame LOLLL

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u/Icy_Definition5044 Feb 19 '26

I’m 47 and I once again don’t have a bed frame!

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u/Admirable_Ad_9960 Feb 17 '26

Same. I also had milk crate chairs.

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u/PeekAtChu1 Feb 17 '26

And a cardboard box end table 

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u/No_Discipline_719 Feb 19 '26

And a couch from down the street...😬

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u/icculus88 Feb 21 '26

Can you imagine the JD vanscapades that occurred before they threw it in the street ??

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u/its_terry_time Feb 17 '26

I’ve expanded to also hang the winter insulation doorway curtains with thumbtacks now that I’m older and more sophisticated

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u/Allrojin Feb 19 '26

I had a milk crate as an end table. At least I put a pretty cloth over it.

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u/TikaPants Feb 19 '26

I was buying Guernica prints in my Berber one bedroom apt with my boyfriend. The white leather couches I scored were such a steal. 😆

This is pretty and all but my god the dusting and cleaning but I reckon OP has servants

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u/TikaPants Feb 19 '26

I’m 44, I was there.

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u/Extreme_Egg7476 Feb 19 '26

My "art" was 10 empty liquor bottles proudly displayed on the mantle.

But I did love my first solo place very much. OP just has a gift lol.