My New Apartment!

Aug 172010

Dan and I were going to begin moving into a new apartment on the 15th, but our breakup means that I will be living in the apartment solo (if you don’t count Lucy and Prandtl).  I’m really excited about decorating it however I want, and I have a lot of decorating ideas!  It is a relatively small apartment, but I think it will do.  Prandtl might get a little frustrated about the lack of running space, but (as I will show you) we have a pretty big “backyard” to work with.

Anyway, some of my friends were wondering what the new place looks like, and I thought Gee… what better place to share my apartment than on my blog? So I took Prandtl with me to check the place out and take a few photos:

View just after coming in the front door:

View the opposite way (looking at the front door from across the apartment)

The kitchen… I LOVE IT:

However…. the washer and dryer is in a closet next to the fridge. Weird placement. I don’t know how I feel about it:

There is a HUGE bathroom with tons of extra space. This photo does it no justice!

Not really a great picture of the bedroom, but it was the only one I took for some reason.

Prandtl’s favorite thing to do!  She can’t creep out of the windows at our current apartment.  The windows at my current place are too high and they face a brick wall.

I asked Prandtl how she felt about the place… and she approves :)

This is in the lobby! WHAT UP FREE COFFEE?!!!?!

The view out of my windows!! It is WAY better than a brick wall!

This is basically my backyard :) I am gonna love living right next to the river!!

I can’t wait to get settled here!  I basically will have two apartments until the end of the month.. so I have about two weeks to move everything from my current apartment to my new one.  I plan on painting for a few days.. and then I’ll start moving things over and getting situated.

Did I mention that I am SO EXCITED?!?!!!

New Apartment Number 11

Jul 052010

Dan and I have been focused on moving for the last few weeks.  We had initially hoped to stay in the apartment building we are in now, but we regained our senses.  We’re in the city and can’t get away from city buses, I get really impatient in the morning from the traffic (when I leave to get to work by 8), and the construction makes me want to drive my car through barricades since I never know what streets are open at any given time.   Plus, the building is old and the electricity bill is high since EVERYTHING is run off of electricity in a very inefficient way.

Lucky for us, we found a place about a mile and a half from here along the Mississippi river that is a little higher in rent, but ultimately we will be better off because of lower utility bills, no parking fees, and I’ll get to keep my peace of mind.  Also – it’s super cute and our view is no longer a brick wall.  Plus, the building was constructed in 2006 so everything is still really shiny.   AND there is a doggy water fountain!

So we’ve been dreaming about future floor plans and paint colors.  We went out and bought a new couch yesterday, too… courtesy my $700 and the Ikea about 15 minutes away

And while I swore that I would never buy an Ikea couch (quality is a pretty big concern of mine), I caved and just bought the damn thing.  It’s actually very large and takes up almost the entire studio apartment we live in now… but it’s also pretty comfortable.  Or at least Dan thinks so because he’s been lounging on it all day.  And so has Lucy.  And so has Prandtl.  And… so have I :-)

We’ve also been talking about paint colors and decorations and throwing away 50% of all of the things we own because a majority of it is excess crap we never use or forgot we had in the first place.  Funny how we accumulate things so quickly.  I live in a studio apartment and we literally have five lamps in our living room area.  5 sources of light in a 10 x 16 foot area.  And we only turn 2 on – so it’s not even well lit in here.

Anyway, I’m excited.  College was 4.5 years of my life where the number of things I had was limited by the size of my car because I had to literally pack up and move every three months.  I would never get to consider painting or buying a couch… or even put paintings on the wall.  Even the apartment that we live in now shows my hesitation when it comes to getting too “homey” in a place.  The walls have a few paintings on them, but for the most part it is very bare.  I had big dreams of getting curtains, but I haven’t even done that because I still feel like there’s no point since I’ll be moving soon anyway.

I’ve got high hopes for our new place.  I’ll be terrified when we get some paint on the wall because I’ll be afraid it will look awful, but I guess it can’t get worse than bare white walls.