Showing posts with label moving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moving. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

the move.


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Well the move is officially over.  It was rough and I am glad it is done.  However, the new place is amazing.  It feels like home instead of an apartment which is nice as I have yet to feel like I was living in a home since I moved out of my parents’ house six years ago.  I will be sharing pictures soon.  The layout is completely different than anything I’ve had before so it’s taking some tweaking to get everything right but so far all the furniture is in place!

As for my list for the weekend I crossed off quite a few things…

…Celebrating Father’s Day and my Mom’s Birthday since my parents will be in town

…Finish the move!!

…Go see Rock of Ages (Does anyone else think this looks insanely good?)

…Get the kitchen completely unpacked and functional, I hate not being able to cook or at least make a salad and know where a fork is

…Start working on getting the gallery wall rehung

…Potentially a cookout on Sunday!

Some things were completed some things weren’t, but that’s okay.  I plan on taking my time to get this apartment together.  The last time I moved I rushed to get things decorated, bought a lot of things I didn’t love and ended up changing everything.  This time around I plan on taking my time and making sure I love something before going forward with it.

One thing I am really excited about doing is creating an inspiration/mood board to cover the shelving on the built in desk.  I never use the desk and I hate the look of it so I figured this time around (I had one in my last apartment) I would cover it up completely.  The picture at the top of this post is my inspiration.  I just need to figure out where I can find a piece of cork or canvas large enough to make this project possible!  I’ve heard that ceiling tiles work great for this type of project so I will have to see if I can get my hands on some of those.

Anyone else ever create a large scale inspiration board or something similar to it?  How did you do it?

xo

p.s. Rock of Ages was awesome, if you like musicals go see it!

Monday, June 11, 2012

drum it up.


The big move in underway.  Things are starting to get boxed up and my furniture is painstakingly being taken apart.  I'm slowly starting to dislike Ikea, taking apart all of my hard work=not fun.  I'll be sure to share the entire process once we really get underway, for now its mainly boxing up all the frames (I never knew I had as many as I do) kitchen and closets.

In lieu of my pending move I wanted to share this awesome idea for all of you apartment dwellers.  How many ugly light fixtures are in your apartment?  Every single light fixture we have is heinous and guess what...the new place has the same fixtures!  This idea however is a great way to hide said ugly light fixtures and is relatively inexpensive.  I'm a huge drum shade fan so this is something I plan on implementing in my new place.

Anyone else in the midst of a move?  Or maybe you have ugly light fixtures in your apartment?  

xo