We moved into an apartment a few weeks ago. Here is the floor plan:
It is smaller than our first house but works very well for us. We have an additional closet in the laundry room, it goes under the stairway of the apartment above us. The kitchen is tiny; smaller than it looks , although there is a dishwasher. The rooms are just large enough for the furniture that was rented for us and then the closets are for all the clutter of life. For some reason the truck brought us 4 twin beds for the boys. There is NO WAY 2 twins would have fit in their rooms. We even have a television; just no time to watch it.
This is the flower bed that greets me each time I arrive at our apartment complex. Next year I plan on using the same combination of plants and have something blooming during July and August. Blue
Salvia, a purple verbena,
penta, and some
vinca's. Some coleus is in the background.
One crazy thing the apartment office staff does; bake cookies all day. Any time you go to the clubhouse there are fresh chocolate chip cookies and raisin cookies. All day, every day, at least during the work week, I haven't been there on Saturday or Sunday.
Since we had just arrived home from vacation when we moved to the hotel we already had our bags packed. Unfortunately that means I wore the same skirt to church every Sunday from the middle of JUNE to August 7--that's only 8 weeks. Many times when I went to the house I had the idea to get a different dress.. by the time we left it wasn't important enough to climb those stairs one more time. Since we had packed light for our road trip I also wore the same 3 pairs of pants for 9 weeks. The same pair of sandals for 11 weeks! Every single day.
As they were packing out house I grabbed a few essentials that I've been very happy to have. Some we were able to dig out of boxes to bring to the apartment. So this is what we are living with:
- crock pot
- garlic powder
- salt
- pepper grinder
- stick blender
- crock pot
- rice cooker
- food processor
- cutting board
- 3 knives
- stainless
- 1 big pot
- 1 small pot
- 1 potholder
no bowls, no pans, 1 potholder! What was I thinking?
Once the sink and the dishwasher is installed we will move in. The furniture is coming Wednesday morning; during my pre-op dr. appointment. I'll come home and the house will be all together! HA!
Ya'll will notice that the doors are off the top cupboards. The wrong doors were put on and we took them off yesterday and they were sent back; it will be 2 weeks before the new ones come in. I think the 'boxes' will finish going up tomorrow!
It is going much faster now!
A very noisy machine. It creates lost of dust but it is slowly getting the old grout off the concrete. Roger rented the scrapper for 24 hours. During that time he slept 3 hours; the rest of it he was guiding this monster. I brought him some food, but never enough, we swept some for him, but never enough. The boys had homework and conference to do too.
Here are 2 shades of 'beige' that I thought I would like....not so much.
There was also more framing below the support bean that the tape measure is on; also with the plywood to support the mantle and the tile surround. I THINK it will hold up a tank!
It's lovely to see the walls go up.
I bought a couple of sample colors. the 'antique beige' is the color of the bathroom cabinet we are getting in the master bathroom. So I think I'm going with the beige for the trim. So do I go lighter or darker for the walls?
The washer and freezer still need to be moved out....Still a long way to go.
These tubes bend pretty easily as long as you have a torch of some kind to heat the side that has to stretch.
Here you can see the position of both tubes; their connection is to be installed behind the TV or family portrait that will hang above the mantle...
Here they are! My kitchen! On the far right you can see the front of one of the cabinets. A nice honey color. Now if only
Here you can see where the can lights are and see that progress is being made...but it is so slow. Today we figured out where to put the mantle...so we could figure out where to put the outlet so it would be behind a picture and not right above the mantle (or behind the mantle.) Roger is finishing up putting a tube from behind the mantle to the computer and to the entertainment center so it will be easy to snake cords to the TV that will be above the fireplace.
I loved it at Christmas but it was hardly used as a bar. We did use it to serve punch at our daughters open-house though.
Here they had started to take stuff out.
I'm glad I wasn't welding the crow-bar here.
Here it is on the curb:
The contractor is building a box for shelves in the large opening, moving the doorway over and making it a real closet. Stay tune for the reveal....months from now.
for the following view: as seen from my kitchen sink...or what would be my kitchen sink if I had one! 
The kitchen is going to be so much brighter due to that big window on the right. But why is it open? It is 103 or there about outside, we can't keep the house cool but it is certainly cooler than that!
It is smaller than our first house but works very well for us. We have an additional closet in the laundry room, it goes under the stairway of the apartment above us. The kitchen is tiny; smaller than it looks , although there is a dishwasher. The rooms are just large enough for the furniture that was rented for us and then the closets are for all the clutter of life. For some reason the truck brought us 4 twin beds for the boys. There is NO WAY 2 twins would have fit in their rooms. We even have a television; just no time to watch it.
This is the flower bed that greets me each time I arrive at our apartment complex. Next year I plan on using the same combination of plants and have something blooming during July and August. Blue Salvia, a purple verbena, penta, and some vinca's. Some coleus is in the background.
