After seeing Young House Love‘s & Attempts at Domestication‘s house tours, I figured that I better get on that and do an apartment tour before we move, since I never did one for our first apartment. Today was the perfect time to do one too, because we have been cleaning ALL FREAKING DAY. Literally. Travis woke up wanting to clean. We even sprayed inside and outside of the apartment for bugs (oh, the joys of basement living) and cleaned the windows inside and out. Since the apartment was clean, I did a video tour quick.
Couple things before you watch the video:

• I did one half of the video during the day, the other half at night. That’s why it’s bright out for the first part, but then the windows are pitch black during the second half.
• My SD card is corrupted in my camera, so the video kept terminating itself after 50 seconds, that’s why the video kind of skips at certain parts.
• Yes, the oven burners are off. We were cleaning all day, and we didn’t put them back in yet.
• Travis was watching TV and writing an email out to DirecTV (our receiver over-heated), so he was in a bad mood, so I didn’t say a word during the kitchen and living room parts. Not much to say anyways, other than… here is the kitchen and here is the living room. But I have faith in you, that you can tell which room is which. ;)
• Yes, that is my sunburst mirror, upside down, on the living room floor. Yes, I started it seven months ago. No, it’s not finished yet…very close, but no.
• The interstate runs behind our apartment, so it’s very loud outside.
• I said I was not going to talk when I walked down the hallway into our apartment, because I had laundry going. It’s not nearly as loud on video as I thought it was going to be.
• Cutest part of video = when Coco meows at me to pet her.

If you have a blog, do a house tour pleasseeee. :) I love watching them, and they really do help the reader learn how your place is laid out. Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Posted on May 20, 2013 - 20 comments
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That’s right, the cable cord was long enough to move the tv to the other side of the bedroom. The pictures don’t do the bedroom justice, but it feels so much better this way. We can now look out the one window to see if it’s storming, dark.. etc, because we usually have the curtains closed to the big windows, since the neighbors house is right there. And it’s actually cooler to sleep on the opposite side, since the a/c blows right towards us. Win-Win. But before I show you the room all rearranged, let me refresh your brain to what the bedroom use to be like…

The bedroom use to be the catch-all for all of the junk in the apartment, but we’ve really been going thru stuff and selling or getting rid of things. The only things left in the bedroom are tires (which are going on my car in October) and leftover parts from Travis’ electric drums. Oh, and a huge futon mattress, which my sister is suppose to be coming to pick up soon.

Anyways, the bedroom is now just about clutter free. Except for Coco’s toys, she is spoiled!

I’m pretty sure that when Travis & I do make that jump into home-ownership, that we will re-arranged things a million times. You always think you know exactly where everything should go, but as you live with that decision for awhile, it becomes clear how things should really be re-arranged. Or maybe I just like playing “musical furniture”. I always did re-arrange my bedroom furniture about 234,343 times while growing up. That’s probably why by the time I was a teenager, most of my furniture was broken from pushing it around so much, oops.

I also know that when we do become home owners, that we will need the following: tv mount, new dresser, new bed frame & headboard & new nightstands. All of our stuff is borrowed (bed frame & headboard) or falling apart (dresser). I see a lot of dollar signs… crap.

Posted on May 20, 2013 - 20 comments
 Filed Under: Second Apartment

I highly doubt you remember my old photo wall and that is okay because most of those pictures have since fallen down. We didn’t want to put holes in the walls at the apartment back then, so we bought some heavy duty mounting tape. It worked for about a day, and then the frames started falling one by one. But for some reason the three biggest frames are still stuck on the wall, and I can’t for the life of me get them unstuck. So our photo wall at the bottom of the steps looks really weird. This time I decided to move the photo wall into the mudroom. After re-arranging it a bit, of course.

I used both nails and mounting tape to hold these suckers up so they wouldn’t move every time the door opened and closed. I think I’m going to add more pictures to this little gallery over time, and extend it all the way to the ceiling, but for now this is all I had on hand. (& yes, I realize that there is a giant screw sticking out of the wall. That was there when we moved in, and I don’t have a drill to remove it. I’d yank it out if I was the hulk, but I’m not.)

Oh, I realized a few posts back that I guess I never talked about the gerbils. We have two; Bora is grey and is impossible to get a picture of, and Scirocco is tan. (Yes we named our gerbils after Volkswagen Models. #RestInPeaceGLI) They are going to be three in December, which is the typical lifespan of a gerbil. Poor little guys. Here is Scirocco:

Coco is loving where her food dish is now, mostly because she loves to sleep on the step that leads to the bedroom. Here is a little refresher for you guys, and a little diagram for some newcomers (hi! so glad you’re here). In this picture I am standing in the doorway of the bathroom and looking into the mudroom.

Tonight, I think we are going to re-arrange the bedroom. Only if the cable cord can reach to the other side of the bedroom though. We’d like to switch the bed & the dresser/tv stand. We’ll see. :)

Posted on May 20, 2013 - 16 comments
 Filed Under: Second Apartment