wrintersoldier:

This is concept art of Steve Rogers’ apartment from Captain America: The First Avenger.

Let’s talk about this, shall we?

I’ll lead by saying that I am in full support of the headcanon that Steve and Bucky shared an apartment, and yes this is going to be a Stucky-centric post. Ye be warned. Plus, that guy in the kitchen in the top pic? There’s no way that’s meant to be Steve. In no comic does Steve have brown hair, that I know of, and Steve would have been way tinier. And is that a military issue hat hanging on the wall in the top pic?

A brief history lesson: what we’re looking at is definitely a pre-law tenement that was built in the late 1800s and modified in 1901 to fit new building codes. We know this because there are no visible windows to the outside, and it was common back then to make long two-room tenements with only one window at the end, which would be right behind the “camera” in these pictures. In 1901 building codes were made more strict and required more ventilation, so landlords added (useless) windows between rooms.

However, by 1944, there were far better apartments and even better tenement options available. People who still lived in pre-law tenements at that time were majorly lower middle-class or poor. This supports what I’ve seen in fanfiction, which is that Steve and Bucky don’t have a lot of money.

Something else we see a lot in pre-law tenements is having a bathtub in the kitchen. Take a close look at their “dining table” in both pictures. That’s not just an old tub they’re using as a makeshift table, that is an actual functioning bathtub and definitely the only one in the house. So clearly Bucky and Steve didn’t have any issues with bathing/being naked in front of each other, since their bathtub is out in the open. Unless the other person left the house or locked themselves in the bathroom whenever the other wanted to bathe.

Speaking of bathroom, that’s the door on the far wall. Pre-law tenements just had a closet-sized room with a toilet, and a sink if you were lucky. The door on the side wall is the one that leads to the communal hallway, you can tell because it has a deadbolt lock on it in both pictures that the bathroom door doesn’t have.

And my favorite part: there’s only one bed. It’s a beautiful thing when the fanfiction writes itself, isn’t it?

Other things that are not necessarily important but enjoyable nonetheless: lots of books, like more books than kitchen utensils. The drawings and stuff pinned on the walls (edit: I thought the lady was Marilyn Monroe but apparently she’s Betty Grable). The chair propped up by books. The easel. The ONE BED.

Hopefully this will be useful information in your fanfiction writing, for imagining layouts as well as potential Stucky-ness.

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Ind. & Selective BUCKY BARNES as told by Rae.
Post-Civil War, slightly canon divergent. NSFW+

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