Well we are officially moved in and settled at our new apartment and we love it here! I cleaned house for your tour this time, so it will look much nicer than the last time you saw where we lived. It's not a dream home, but that's the great part about being young newlyweds...low standards! :)
A few notes about our new place. 1) Since we're planning to be here short-term, the manager told us the best way to get our deposit back is to not hang anything on the walls. Apparently, he's really anal about holes in the wall, so we are allowed to hang one clock and one key holder, and nothing else. Therefore, the walls are bare and we don't have a lot of decorations. 2) We were able to use the church office building for storage, so we put a LOT of our stuff in storage to free up space around here. Therefore, we mostly have the basics out and not a lot else.
So...those are my disclaimers. My home will never be featured in a magazine and I'm totally ok with that. We are really happy in this new apt and actually feel like we'd be happy staying here for a while. So here are the pictures:
Looking up at the apts from our parking lot, ours is up the stairs and to the left.
Welcome to our home!
Looking in from the front door to the kitchen with the living room on the right.
Not too surprisingly, the living room is the first room you come to when you walk into the apt.
Yes, that is a fake fireplace under the TV. I have never lived anywhere that had one, but I'm kind of hoping we're still here when the weather gets cold enough to try it out.
Next to the living room is the kitchen, which is my very favorite room. It's so big! It's actually bigger than the kitchens in a lot of houses I've seen, so I'm quite excited our little apartment has such a large kitchen.
Of course, since I haven't had a dishwasher for the past 2 years, I'm quite excited to have one now!
The dining room is really just a small part of the kitchen, but it works great for our little dining room table.
We're also excited to have a balcony here, which is accessible through the door you see in the picture above. My picture-taking skills are definitely lacking, as you can tell in this next picture, but at least you get the idea. The door on the balcony is to a tiny storage closet, where we keep our bicycles.
The weekend of the 4th, we bought a grill for Kory and some flowers for me.
My flourishing strawberry plant...which you will see in just a little bit is no more.
From back inside the kitchen, you head down the hall to find the rest of the apt and one fat cat laying in the floor. That's Kabie...who is quite large these days.
The first door on the right is our little pantry. It's a tiny one, but since we didn't have one at all in our last apt, we're happy to have it!
Across the hall from the pantry is the water heater closet. Nothing exciting, but this is what you get on the Premium Tour :)
The full bath is the next door on your right down the hallway between the pantry and the washer/dryer. The cats' litter box lives here in this bathroom also. I REALLY hate litter boxes, but this one actually hides the smell pretty well as long as it's cleaned frequently.
I am not sure if it helps, but hopefully the pictures from all different angles help you get a better idea of what the room really looks like.
Next to the full bathroom is the washer and dryer. I know I sound like a broken record...but since we had to use a community laundry room before, we're REALLY excited about this!
At the end of the hall is the guest room. Kory will primarily be using the room for this:
His PlayStation2 is in this room...and yes, it's totally necessary for it to have a separate TV from the Xbox 360, which is in the living room.
This will be where our guests get to stay when they come visit us, but the rest of the time this bed will serve as a bouch. What, you've never heard that word? It's because we made it up. We've decided to try to make this into a bed/couch by putting a ton of pillows on it and using it as a place to play video games/read/chill. Here's what we've got so far:
It's still a work in progress, but here's the rest of the room.
Finally, here's the Master Bedroom.
My nightstand is clearly much shorter thank Kory's as it makes my normal-sized lamp look miniature!
And some other angles so you can see what the rest of the room looks like.
Our bedroom has a walk-in closet that I adore. Most of our winter clothing is in storage, so we actually have some open space in here, which is nice.
We have a 1/2 bath connected to our bedroom, and it's been really convenient so I can get ready in the mornings in the other bathroom without waking Kory up...since he gets to sleep in later than me. Lame.
And a couple pictures of our cats, just for fun:
Kabie was rolling around on the ground on the balcony.
Mr. Sir has taken to laying in my strawberry plant anytime he's out on the balcony. If he wasn't so stinking cute, he would get in trouble..but I'm a sucker for his purring and he gets away with most anything he wants.
So there ya have it, our new home :) We'd love for you to come visit and see it all in person very soon!
