New Yorker and sometime Weekend contributor Liz Arnold (remember this teeny Manhattan apartment, or the LA house where The Kids Are All Right was filmed?) doesn't like her homes too perfect.
On her newly relaunched blog, Homebodies, she celebrates everyday homes. Where many interiors blogs covet the polished and the tidy, Arnold appreciates the smaller details: doorknobs, cigarette burns on an antique desk top or a breast implant used as a paperweight.
She takes delight in discovering mess, marvels at how New Yorkers make the best out of small spaces and polls readers on whether they fold their toilet paper over or under.
Most of the homes featured on the blog – which she visits in person and shoots in an amateur way – belong to "ambiguously employed" creatives across the Atlantic. We love to drool over ridiculous homes as much as anyone, but it's good to get a reality check now and again.
