Okay, now that we FINALLY got the pictures back, we could fill the empty frames we hung, which means that I could take pictures of the apartment and show all of you where we are. Okay, I'll post them, but let me just explain that the pictures don't do it justice. The apartment is a lot nicer than the pictures make it look.
Altho
ugh, I'm trying to find the 800 sq ft. that are supposed to be in this place, and realizing we would have died in one that was only 650 sq ft. I told Clayton that there must be a reason that we're in this place instead of any other because for some reason he fell in love with it without even seeing it, and so when I went to look at it, I wasn't looking too hard for negatives in it. Once we started moving in, I realized there wasn't that much storage space. The pantry is out in the open, which makes us look red neck in my opinion, but that's where it's got to go since we got the washer and dryer :o)
Okay, here's
what the apartment's like. The washer and dryer are in the kitchen. Well, in a closet off of the kitchen I guess, technically. There's not a pantry, and the cupboards aren't quite enough to hold all of our stuff, so it's a good thing we have a wheelie cart to put our microwave on and use as extra storage. Good thing about getting lots of kitchen stuff for the wedding: We have a lot of cool kitchen gadgets. Bad thing about getting lots of kitchen stuff for the wedding: Hard to find places for it all.
Then there's the dining room. There's not too much of one of those. We push the table against the wall when it's just the two of us, and when we h
ave people over, we pull it out and rotate the chairs. It's actually not bad. I do like the way it works out better than I had thought it would. And
in the dining room/walkway area, it's unfortunate that Clayton has to park his bike there, but he does promise to find another place to put that soon. (We'll see, he promised that over a week ago.)
The living room also hosts the office, which is just our computer desk. It fits nicely in, and follows the counsel to place the computer in an open are
a. An accidental benefit to the lack of space is that we obey the prophet-nothing wrong with that :o) The rest of the living room houses a leather rocking chair, and our couch (which is really a large love seat, but it more than works). When we first moved in we brought the love sac. By time we set that up and the tv, there was no in between space, and when you sat on the love sac, you were right up on the tv. So I made sure Clayton wasn't super attached to the sac and switched it out for the couch. Now our living room is perfectly situated. There is enough space between the couch and the tv set up. Ew. About the tv. We have 4 remotes just to watch the dang tv. That's not what I'm used to, but I'm working on it :o)
Next we mo
ve to the hallway. We put some cute decorations up in the hallway, and it ends in a linen closet. At firs
t I thought the linen closet was huge, and then, again, I started putting stuff in it and I soon realized it wasn't as big as we needed it.
The hallway leads to the bathroom and the bedroom. Again, no storage in the bathroom, not even a medicine cabinet, but you'll see later how I solved that problem. My favorite part about the bathroom is the candle that I made that perfectly matches the shower curtain. It's a clear vase with a dark brown toole ribbon tied around it, with teal marbles at the bottom and a tan candle.
The bedroom is last. I'm pretty happy with the 
way it turned out. We've got another tv in the bedroom that sits on top of a book ca
se filled with college books from Clayton and I. Then there's a large book case that I filled up all by myself, that surprised me, I didn't know I had that many books :o) The last bead spread that we had on matched the room better, but we just washed the sheets and changed the look. We do fit into the bedroom pretty well, I only have a couple boxes still out of place, so they're permanently on the floor, at least for now. I love the drawer by my bed. It's full of scrap booking stuff. When I basically filled it, I was way excited. I didn't think I had that much of that either :o) My favorite part of the bedroom is the shelf above the bed. We used the wedding vases and engagement pictures to decorate that. It looks fantastic (if I do say so myself). 
Last of all is our
half bedroom- oh, I mean closet. If we stay here a while and do decide to have a little on, then I think the closet will just become the nursery. I know, in the picture, it looks like the closet is an absolute disaster. I promise, it's not. If you look closely, I have my hair stuff on top of my dresser, and the first aid stuff is in my bottom drawer, that's how I solved the no space in the bathroom solution.
Alright, beside the outside storage area, that's our apartment. But, like I said, the pictures don't do it justice, so you'll have to come visit it sometime if you want to get a real feel for it.
Altho
ugh, I'm trying to find the 800 sq ft. that are supposed to be in this place, and realizing we would have died in one that was only 650 sq ft. I told Clayton that there must be a reason that we're in this place instead of any other because for some reason he fell in love with it without even seeing it, and so when I went to look at it, I wasn't looking too hard for negatives in it. Once we started moving in, I realized there wasn't that much storage space. The pantry is out in the open, which makes us look red neck in my opinion, but that's where it's got to go since we got the washer and dryer :o)Okay, here's
what the apartment's like. The washer and dryer are in the kitchen. Well, in a closet off of the kitchen I guess, technically. There's not a pantry, and the cupboards aren't quite enough to hold all of our stuff, so it's a good thing we have a wheelie cart to put our microwave on and use as extra storage. Good thing about getting lots of kitchen stuff for the wedding: We have a lot of cool kitchen gadgets. Bad thing about getting lots of kitchen stuff for the wedding: Hard to find places for it all.Then there's the dining room. There's not too much of one of those. We push the table against the wall when it's just the two of us, and when we h
ave people over, we pull it out and rotate the chairs. It's actually not bad. I do like the way it works out better than I had thought it would. And in the dining room/walkway area, it's unfortunate that Clayton has to park his bike there, but he does promise to find another place to put that soon. (We'll see, he promised that over a week ago.)The living room also hosts the office, which is just our computer desk. It fits nicely in, and follows the counsel to place the computer in an open are
a. An accidental benefit to the lack of space is that we obey the prophet-nothing wrong with that :o) The rest of the living room houses a leather rocking chair, and our couch (which is really a large love seat, but it more than works). When we first moved in we brought the love sac. By time we set that up and the tv, there was no in between space, and when you sat on the love sac, you were right up on the tv. So I made sure Clayton wasn't super attached to the sac and switched it out for the couch. Now our living room is perfectly situated. There is enough space between the couch and the tv set up. Ew. About the tv. We have 4 remotes just to watch the dang tv. That's not what I'm used to, but I'm working on it :o)Next we mo
ve to the hallway. We put some cute decorations up in the hallway, and it ends in a linen closet. At firs
t I thought the linen closet was huge, and then, again, I started putting stuff in it and I soon realized it wasn't as big as we needed it.
The hallway leads to the bathroom and the bedroom. Again, no storage in the bathroom, not even a medicine cabinet, but you'll see later how I solved that problem. My favorite part about the bathroom is the candle that I made that perfectly matches the shower curtain. It's a clear vase with a dark brown toole ribbon tied around it, with teal marbles at the bottom and a tan candle.
The bedroom is last. I'm pretty happy with the 
way it turned out. We've got another tv in the bedroom that sits on top of a book ca
se filled with college books from Clayton and I. Then there's a large book case that I filled up all by myself, that surprised me, I didn't know I had that many books :o) The last bead spread that we had on matched the room better, but we just washed the sheets and changed the look. We do fit into the bedroom pretty well, I only have a couple boxes still out of place, so they're permanently on the floor, at least for now. I love the drawer by my bed. It's full of scrap booking stuff. When I basically filled it, I was way excited. I didn't think I had that much of that either :o) My favorite part of the bedroom is the shelf above the bed. We used the wedding vases and engagement pictures to decorate that. It looks fantastic (if I do say so myself). 
Last of all is our
half bedroom- oh, I mean closet. If we stay here a while and do decide to have a little on, then I think the closet will just become the nursery. I know, in the picture, it looks like the closet is an absolute disaster. I promise, it's not. If you look closely, I have my hair stuff on top of my dresser, and the first aid stuff is in my bottom drawer, that's how I solved the no space in the bathroom solution.Alright, beside the outside storage area, that's our apartment. But, like I said, the pictures don't do it justice, so you'll have to come visit it sometime if you want to get a real feel for it.
