Apartment Therapy and AOL may earn commission from links in this article. “I never thought in a million years I would move into this apartment, and when I did move in, it was supposed to be for a transition period,” chef and writer Lily Starbuck explains about her Brooklyn rental. “As they say, ‘Make plans and God laughs.’” Initially, the third-floor apartment was supposed to be a temporary move for Lily between selling her cottage on Fisher’s Island, New York, and working and living in Ireland.