Let me be the first to warn you: There are few journeys quite as harrowing as the one you’ll take from your first-ever apartment to the nearest home goods store. A decade ago, in my first few weeks as ...

Moving into an apartment means filling up a lot of empty space. Even if you start out with some basics from friends or family or your college apartment, there are still so many things you need to buy.

Fill your first apartment with all the essentials using this comprehensive checklist. Shopping for a first apartment isn't easy, when you're searching through the seemingly endless variety of home ...

Shopping for first-apartment essentials should be exciting—there’s an undeniable sense of newness in a space just waiting to be filled. However, as exciting as it may be to live outside a dorm or your ...

Chef and cooking teacher Sara Polczynski obviously knows her way around a kitchen. But when her daughter Ava, now a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University, decided with roommates to move into ...

Welcome to How I Pick My Picks — a kind-of-regular newsletter series in which we check in with the Strategist staff on the stuff they’re using day-to-day, the products they’re testing for stories, and ...

I’ve lived in an on-campus apartment at NYU for two years and have misplaced my keys far more times than I’d like to admit. The result: I get locked out, I have to be let in by campus security, and ...

Moving into your first on-campus apartment at Duke feels like freedom. A kitchen! A living room! No RA down the hall! And then you show up with three suitcases and realize you forgot trash bags, a ...

Your first home away from home might be a dorm room or shared apartment. Space most likely will be tight, yet you’ll still want the comforts and essentials you left behind. Dormify specializes in ...

Moving into your first apartment means that it may also be the first time you manage a lease, a monthly housing budget, utilities and an entire household on your own. It’s a common milestone — about ...