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The Big Spring Clean Chez Moi (& Chez Toi)

March 8, 2019by Lisa Anselmo 12 Comments

A few days ago, I started to tidy up my Paris place to prepare for a visit from some New York friends. My apartment is only 258 square feet (24 […]

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Being Brave, Home Sweet Home

Keeping House (In French)

February 27, 2018by Lisa Anselmo 37 Comments

This was originally written for my memoir, My (Part-Time) Paris Life: How Running Away Brought Me Home, published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, but didn’t make the final edit for reasons of story flow. In this […]

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Challenges of Parisian Homeownership, Home Sweet Home, Learning to Live Parisian

Five Years On

March 17, 2017by Lisa Anselmo 12 Comments

Five years ago today, I found the apartment that would become the vehicle for my life change. This is the first year I will be in the apartment to mark this […]

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Home Sweet Home

Life Lessons from the Water Fairy

August 25, 2016by Lisa Anselmo 21 Comments

I honestly don’t know how to tell you this, but, well…I sprung a leak in my apartment. I hear you all, the collective thwack! of your jaws hitting your tables. “What?” you’re […]

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Challenges of Parisian Homeownership, Deco, On Renovation, The Leak

Coming Home (Again)

June 27, 2016by Lisa Anselmo 24 Comments

Nearly two years after I was ousted from my little Paris apartment by destruction and mold thanks to a leak from the upstairs neighbor that took 18 months to fix, my luggage and I moved back […]

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Challenges of Parisian Homeownership, Home Sweet Home, On Renovation, The Leak

The Saga of My New Little Paris Kitchen

May 27, 2016by Lisa Anselmo 23 Comments

If you’re following along, you know I’ve been planning a kitchen update chez moi since 2013. But between the rising exchange rate at the time followed by a leak that made […]

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Deco, On Renovation, The Leak

(Re)Renovation Part II: The Healing Begins

May 18, 2016by Lisa Anselmo 13 Comments

In early 2014, signs of a leak began to distort the wall in my entryway. It would take nearly two years and an order from the French courts before that leak […]

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Challenges of Parisian Homeownership, Home Sweet Home, On Renovation, The Leak

The Book I Was Destined to Write (In Spite of Myself)

Featuredby Lisa Anselmo 10 Comments

In 2014, my life would change forever. I had decided to leave my beloved job, then a day later, received an email from a woman named Kat Brzozowski from St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne Books wanting to discuss turning […]

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Being Brave, Learning to be Happy, My Paris, On Writing

Drying Out in Paris

March 24, 2016by Lisa Anselmo 15 Comments

No, I’m not talking about that kind of drying out. In fact, after the intense month I had in Paris, I think my wine consumption may have ticked up a bit. I’d […]

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Challenges of Parisian Homeownership, Home Sweet Home, Learning to Live Parisian, The Leak

The Path of the American

September 15, 2014by Lisa Anselmo 9 Comments

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been having a tough time with an unresolved leak in my building that is damaging my dream home. Toxic mold has grown, forcing me […]

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Learning to Live Parisian, My Paris

La Rentree (Re-entry)

August 31, 2014by Lisa Anselmo 5 Comments

August in Paris is coming to a close, which means Parisians are returning from their vacations. You can tell because the Métro is busier, the streets are more bustling and […]

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Home Sweet Home, My Neighborhood, My Paris

Dear Tourists, Please Unlock Your Love

January 21, 2014by Lisa Anselmo 36 Comments

Dear Tourists: I know it seems romantic, a lock signifying your everlasting love fastened forever to a bridge in the City of Light—and sure, a few years ago it was […]

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My Paris

Christmas in Paris Next Year?

December 27, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 1 Comment

I just spent a wonderful Christmas with my sister in Florida. Eighty degrees but still Christmas-y. This was the first year since mom died that I felt the holiday spirit […]

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Home Sweet Home, Life in 2 Cities

La Cuisine Parisienne: Chic and (Kinda) Cheap

September 20, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 15 Comments

I’ve spent the better part of the last four months researching kitchen designs for my on-again-off-again-(maybe)-on-again renovation project in my Paris place. What I’ve discovered: high style comes at low […]

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Deco, On Renovation, Shopping Paris

So You Want to Buy a Place in Paris?

June 14, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 46 Comments

  Updated 9/4/2018 Think you’re ready to buy an apartment in Paris? Before you take the plunge, you might want to take this quiz: Am I Ready for a Pied-à-Terre […]

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Buying in Paris

With This Key, Responsibility

April 11, 2013by Lisa Anselmo Leave a comment

After several stays in my new pied-à-terre, something has occurred to me: my trips to Paris have ceased to be vacations. This is to say, I’m no longer truly unplugging. […]

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Home Sweet Home, Life in 2 Cities

Change of Ownership

April 4, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 3 Comments

On March 17th, I celebrated one year since I found my Paris apartment. It would take three months before I took ownership officially, but it felt like mine from the […]

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Home Sweet Home, My Neighborhood

Lisa’s ‘Hood

March 6, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 3 Comments

While exploring my new neighborhood, I came across a shop that stopped me in my tracks. I whipped out my iPhone to snap a shot. The sign, written in English […]

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Home Sweet Home, My Neighborhood

The Housewarming

February 24, 2013by Lisa Anselmo Leave a comment

La pendaison de crémaillère: the hanging of the iron rack thingie that suspends the cooking pot over the fire. It’s the French version of the word, “housewarming.” In centuries past, […]

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Home Sweet Home

Yes, This is Paris

February 4, 2013by Lisa Anselmo 6 Comments

When most people invest in a pied-à-terre in Paris, they settle in the central part of the city—the chic 6th or 7th arrondissements, or the trendy Marais—where resale values will […]

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Home Sweet Home, My Neighborhood

Paris Au Beurre

December 1, 2012by Lisa Anselmo 7 Comments

The original tagline of my blog was: I Got an Apartment in Paris So I Could Buy the Butter. This is not me being clever; it’s the deep-down, primal, driving truth. […]

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Home Sweet Home

Under Water (Part Deux)

November 16, 2012by Lisa Anselmo 2 Comments

During my first stay in my new Paris apartment, my main water pipe, located in my bathroom, sprang a leak. My contractor, who was on vacation, left it to me […]

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Home Sweet Home, Learning to Live Parisian

Paris-o-rama!

October 25, 2012by Lisa Anselmo Leave a comment

Don’t you just love names that end in “-rama?” It just sounds like bigger and better fun, doesn’t it? Try it right now and you’ll see what I mean: take […]

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Deco, Shopping Paris

The Homecoming

October 22, 2012by Lisa Anselmo Leave a comment

[Note: This post had been unpublished while we filmed House Hunters International. I’ve recently republished it.] I hadn’t seen the apartment since June, when it was covered in an inch […]

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Home Sweet Home

Leaving Left, Turning Right

October 17, 2012by Lisa Anselmo Leave a comment

A creature of habit, I stayed in the same hotel in the Left Bank every time I visited Paris. I grew very attached to the quartier, and to the hotel staff […]

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Learning to Live Parisian

Les Soldes? I’m Sold!

October 16, 2012by Lisa Anselmo 1 Comment

I’d just arrived in Paris to oversee the renovation of my apartment and was profoundly jet-lagged. I threw myself on a bed, my limbs heavy, my head fuzzy. “Moins 30%” read the […]

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Deco, Shopping Paris

Coup de Coeur

September 4, 2012by Lisa Anselmo 6 Comments

Coup de coeur is a favorite expression of French real estate sites. It literally means a blow to the heart, which sounds like a bad thing, but it refers to […]

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Buying in Paris, The Search

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