As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

• Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book. There are great mediation apps on your phone like HeadSpace and even group classes available, just google your neighborhood specifically to find out what’s around you. MNDFL is a great mindful meditation class with locations close to Glenwood’s Upper East Side and Downtown buildings. Check it out if you are interested, they offer classes focusing on different things such as breathing or emotions—you can reserve classes online!

Enjoy A Day At The Spa

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in a spa appointment to do so, here are some great recommendations!

• Upper East Side

  • If you live on the Upper East Side, try The Cornelia Spa at The Surry located at 20 E 76^th This spa is located walking distance to Glenwood buildings like The Marlowe, The Pavilion and The Lucerne.

• Midtown

  • If you live or work midtown and are looking for a great spa, check out Spa de La Mer at the Baccarat Hotel at 28 W 53^rd St.  This spa is located close to Glenwood midtown buildings.

• Downtown

  • If you live downtown, try Aire Ancient Baths at 88 Franklin Street. It is a great location with hot and cold water pools, massages onsite and saunas! If you are a downtown Glenwood resident, check Aire out!

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Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series, Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo, who has been featured on tv shows like The Ellen Show, now has her very own Netflix show. She insists that the only items you keep in your home are ones that “spark joy inside of you!”

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer.  If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

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As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

• Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book. There are great mediation apps on your phone like HeadSpace and even group classes available, just google your neighborhood specifically to find out what’s around you. MNDFL is a great mindful meditation class with locations close to Glenwood’s Upper East Side and Downtown buildings. Check it out if you are interested, they offer classes focusing on different things such as breathing or emotions—you can reserve classes online!

Enjoy A Day At The Spa

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in a spa appointment to do so, here are some great recommendations!

• Upper East Side

  • If you live on the Upper East Side, try The Cornelia Spa at The Surry located at 20 E 76^th This spa is located walking distance to Glenwood buildings like The Marlowe, The Pavilion and The Lucerne.

• Midtown

  • If you live or work midtown and are looking for a great spa, check out Spa de La Mer at the Baccarat Hotel at 28 W 53^rd St.  This spa is located close to Glenwood midtown buildings.

• Downtown

  • If you live downtown, try Aire Ancient Baths at 88 Franklin Street. It is a great location with hot and cold water pools, massages onsite and saunas! If you are a downtown Glenwood resident, check Aire out!

Read more

Luxury Living at Tribeca Bridge Tower

Schedule a tour today of Tribeca Bridge Tower's luxury Downtown Manhattan apartments.

Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series, Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo, who has been featured on tv shows like The Ellen Show, now has her very own Netflix show. She insists that the only items you keep in your home are ones that “spark joy inside of you!”

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer.  If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

The post Who Says Spring Cleaning Is Only For Your Apartment? appeared first on NYC Luxury Apartments for Rent | Glenwood Management.

As soon as springtime hits NYC, spring cleaning is on our minds! While you most commonly associate spring cleaning with your apartment, it is also important to relate it to yourself. Take time to personally shed the gloom of winter and ready yourself for the bright spring and summer ahead! We have included some of Glenwood’s tips on how to ready both yourself and your apartment for the spring season. Keep reading to find out how!

Take Care of You!

Find A Way to Center Yourself

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is all about embracing the present moment. Being mindful of your immediate surroundings, all of the noises, the smells, tastes, and feels is how you allow yourself to be present. Mindfulness does not have to be practiced sitting still, enjoy a nice stroll in Central Park. Listen to the birds, dogs, feel the sun, smell the flowers—this is a great way to be mindful in New York City. Even taking 10 minutes out of your day to practice this will leave you will wonderful results! It helps to allow you to be present more than worrying about the past or present, and will relax your body and mind! Who doesn’t want to try this heading into spring! If you want to learn more about mindfulness there are dozens of books and seminars you can easily find online.

• Meditation

There are numerous types of meditations you can try. Click here to read a brief overview of 7 types of meditations from transcendental meditation to breath awareness meditation there is a type for you to try! Meditation has been proven to reduce cortisol levels, aka reduce stress, reduce anxiety, help with attention and so much more! Russel Simmons is a well-known celebrity who has greatly benefited from the practice of meditation in his life. He has a meditation made easy New York Times Bestseller Success Through Stillness if you are interested click here to learn more about his book.

Bring Your Spa Home

Relaxing your body is as important as relaxing your mind, and if you want to indulge in an at home spa day read below.

Elle.com has great face mask recipes that you can make at home:

For a calming mask:

• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 teaspoon coconut oil
• ¼ ripe avocado
• 2 drops of lavender oil

For a hydrating mask:

• 1/2 Avocado
• 1 tablespoon of honey
• A handful of oats or oat bran

Read more

Luxury Living at Tribeca Bridge Tower

Schedule a tour today of Tribeca Bridge Tower's luxury Downtown Manhattan apartments.

Take Care of Your Apartment

If you love to clean and organize and are looking for some tips for your Glenwood apartment, be sure to catch Maria Kondo’s Netflix series,  Tiding Up With Maria Kondo. Maria Kondo is a Japanese organizing guru with four bestselling books, appearances on the Ellen show and her own Netflix show. In her Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up book, she coins The KonMari Method, which is removing items from your home that do not spark joy in you. You simply touch an item and if it brings you joy, you keep it, if it does not you donate or throw it out. She uses this method will all items in her house from clothing, to decorative items, to those childhood school projects parents keep around.

Maria Kondo also goes into depth about how to properly fold your clothes to make sure you can see all of your items. Rather than piling shirts on top of one another she folds them into little standing squares and lines them into a drawer. If Maria Kondo’s tips are something you want to learn more about to make your apartment happy this spring, you can find out more about her Netflix show here or her books here.

Do you have tips for decorating your apartment? Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter and let us know!

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Spring might have officially begun on March 20th, but the weather certainly isn’t reflecting the season yet. However, this gives you more time to give your apartment a fresh Spring look. Even if it’s not sunny and warm yet, buy some colorful flowers and begin with the floral displays! Many of you might not have an eye for flower arranging, leading to wonky and lopsided bouquets. Hence, we’re here to the rescue! Learn these instructions for obtaining the most beautiful flower arrangements, and leave your guests in awe.

1- Cut the Stems

First and foremost, immerse your flowers’ stems in water, and cut the base at a 45 degree angle. This results in the flowers drawing water easily from the vase, also known as ‘faster capillary action’. Alyssa Ponticello, Brooklyn-based founder of Runway Chef, suggests gently smashing the ends of woodier stems with a hammer for good measure.

2- Remove the Leaves

If there are any leaves that fall below the waterline in your vase, cut them off. Also, make sure your flowers aren’t cluttered by excessive leaves at the top, as the end goal is to have an elegant design.

3- Add in Odd Numbers

Time to assemble your arrangement and utilize some creative techniques! According to Refinery 29, owner of Fox Fodder Farm Taylor Patterson recommends adding the flowers in odd numbers, and maintaining a loose grip around the stems so they spread out. She also mentions that tiny pods and mint leaves allow for an element of surprise, as well as some breathing room for the flowers. After all, crammed flowers results in a messy arrangement.

Why odd-numbered groupings? The answer is easy: The rule of threes states that items arranged in odd numbers are more attractive, unforgettable, and effective. Three is apparently the magic number, but 5, 7, or 9 work beautifully too. This guideline appears in many other fields besides interior design, such as graphic design, photography, storytelling, etc. Research shows that 3 is the smallest number that can be used to form a distinguishable pattern in our minds. Moreover, our eyes move around more when we see an odd-numbered display, causing a more fascinating visual experience.

4- Secure your Arrangement

Once you’ve grouped the matching flowers, wrap the stems using a rubber band, floral tape, or even a ribbon to keep your assortment in place. Be careful not to wrap it too tight, or your flowers might shift and appear wobbly. A smart move would be using a clear elastic that won’t show after the flowers are inside the vase. If you’re presenting the bouquet to someone, wrap the ribbon into a bow to achieve a simple, neat look.

5- Create a Unique Vase

Not finding an acceptable arrangement? No problem, you can come up with several sophisticated vase hacks. One idea would be to place each flower in its own water bottle/cup and then group the vases together on your living room table. Therefore, each flower will stand out and you’ll have the effect of a floral arrangement.

A variation on this idea would be tying the bottles together with a twine and adding some wildflowers. This option has a wild feel to it, but it’s suitable for an apartment with a casual design.

To get a mystical appeal, create a flower arrangement in a jar and fill the bottom with 1-2 inches of water. For aesthetic purposes, only group flowers of the same species together. Continue doing this until you have a wide arrangement.

6- Keep the Flowers Fresh

We all fear our flowers will wilt quickly a few days after buying them. For this reason, store the vase in the fridge overnight and we guarantee the flowers will remain fresh and vibrant longer than you expect. Based on Apartment Therapy’s experiment, this was the winning technique to keep the flowers blooming. Test it out for yourself!

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Seems like it actually might be warm now for the duration (though let's not forget the April blizzard of '82!). Spring ushers in lots of activites in New York, such as the flower shows we wrote about recently. But it's also time to clean your home. Ugh, I know, but remember: there are few chores that feel more satisfying when you're done than a big (or even semi-big!) spring cleaning. Now, I am no expert on the subject as my kids will tell you, but we scoured the internet and found a number of sites with some stellar-sounding advice.

Scrub Two Things and Call Me in the Morning

For example, Ashley Brown, normally at Seventh House on The Left, guest-posted 10 Spring Cleaning Tips and Tricks on Home Depot's reliably-handy Apron blog. Using a lint roller to clean fabric lamp shades is an immediate keeper, and I kind of like the idea of spending 10 minutes at the end of every day (Brown sets a timer) to tidy up or scrub down something that will have a real impact on the way your home feels in the morning. The organization fanatics at A Bowl Full of Lemons always have good ideas on how to manage your clutter, but it was their recent post on cleaning your fridge that finally inspired me to do mine, and it makes me happy every time I open it (which is a lot).

Top to Bottom Spring Cleaning Lists

No surprise, our friends at Apartment Therapy have several evergreen posts on the subject, including this gem from last year, a floor-to-ceiling roundup packed with proven strategies on cleaning everything from shower curtains and medicine cabinets to your computer keyboard and garbage cans, as well as a list of 25 places to donate unwanted clothes. The Huffington Post has a good list of off-beat organizers for every room; How Stuff Works put up one of their typically comprehensive guides, which is especially inspiring for their prep tips;

What to Use: Green Cleaning Products

Long gone (I hope) are the days where a good bleach solution to clean most anything is the preferred method. Today, environmentally concious home dwellers are opting for "green" cleaning products that get the job done while having no impact on the environment. The folks at the Well+Good NYC blog suggest that with a little smart shopping, a dash of awareness, and some time to create home-made solutions, you can clean green with these non-toxic cleaners! Treehugger also recenty posted their take on green cleaning, an idea which seems to be is catching! 

What part of your apartment needs the most cleaning attention in spring? 

Top photo by Susy Morris.

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1. We love all of the prints by the folks at Odd Hero, especially their punctuation mark posters, and the typography ones. In fact, it's super tempting to order, say, three of them–we're leaning toward the ampersand, the asterix, and the question mark–and hanging these room changers all in a row…     

2. Hanging a new clock on your wall is also a great quick room changing sprucer-upper. This domino clock by Carbon Design–it's 12:59 in the picture, by the way–is a definite conversation starter. Plus, fun game at parties: see how long it takes for people to notice it's a working clock!    

3. Benza makes lots of fun, unique room changer products for the home, from vases to tableware to lamps and trashcans. But it's the contemporary, energetic Benza wall clocks that have us hooked on this company… that and their nice, reasonable prices.   

4. If you have something a bit more vintage-y in mind, we spotted this clever DIY project on Design Sponge, in which you turn a lovely old suitcase into a classy, low table (with storage!).  

5. Giving your bedroom a new look is easy with room changers: a new duvet cover, new shams (or pillow cases), done. There are tons of great designs out there, obviously, but our favorites tend to come from the geniuses at Dwell Design, or, pictured, Area Home. Or: Marimekko, now at the Crate and Barrel on Houston and Broadway. Or, heck, even IKEA usually has lots of good designs.   

6. Speaking of, this chunky Marimekko Fatboy–in either regular or "junior" size–is an excellent-looking reboot of the classic beanbag chair. We've heard mixed reports as to their functionality (cozy and comfy! too slippy to sit!), but there's no question that these are instant bedroom room changing brighteners. 

7. We fell instantly in love with these lovely white porcelain containers from Kahler, brilliantly brightened by the addition of a simple, colored rubber band. We want to get three or four, in different sizes, and line them up in our bathroom. 

8. Here's another terrific, minimalist design deftly brightened by a burst of color. Really, the only downside to Tamawa's coat rack is that we wouldn't want to cover it up with coats! (Hat rack, maybe?)

9. And then there's the transparent toaster from Design-Milk, which would not only look amazingly cool in our kitchen, but would also ensure that we got our bagels exactly right every time. Only problem? They can't get the glass hot enough, so this room changing product doesn't exist. Yet.  

10. Finally, we've been fans of the Australian outfit Luxxbox for a while now (their Stak bookshelf look great, IS perfect, for small rooms), but it's these terrific little mix-n-match Tingle stools, boldly colored "like a fizzing lolly", that currently have our attention. 

Let us know what other, really want it badly, room changer finds you have your eyes on.

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