A colourful 300 sq ft micro apartment in Jersey City
Sheridon left an 800 sq ft Bushwick apartment for 300 sq ft in Jersey City, so she could spend less on rent and more on travel.
Sheridon lived in an 800 sq ft apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and kept wishing she was in the other room. She moved to a 300 sq ft studio in Jersey City instead. Her motto is small space, big life. Spending less on her home gives her the money and headspace to travel and see the world.
She made her clear desk work by pairing it with a clear chair she found on a Bushwick street. If both are see-through, she reasons, the room feels bigger. One orange chair is her whole living room, and a big gold-painted mirror bounces light from the window.
Sheridon loves colour and finds much of her decor on the street. A painting from Bushwick and two found mirrors fill her gallery wall. The centrepiece is a painting by a local artist that she bought in Egypt after promising herself she'd skip the tourist shops. A tile from the Algarve shows a fleur-de-lis, a nod to her family's roots in Louisiana.
She kept her queen bed on a low frame, and a hanging plant marks where the bedroom ends and the office begins. A step ladder reaches the storage above the kitchen cabinets and doubles as extra counter space.
