Nesting in my new apartment has been an integral part of this whole getting-out-on-my-own thing, so it's probably about time I introduce you to it! There's an awesome tool called The Make Room, which let's you design your entire home, from walls to couches to staplers (not even kidding). Thanks to Jenn I had a floor plan and room dimensions, so I was actually able to build my apartment:
Cool, huh?! If it helps, the bay windows are the front of the house, and the door to nowhere is the back door. (It doesn't just drop off the side of the house; there is actually a back hallways with closets and stairs and all that good stuff. I just didn't know that when I made this.) But I couldn't stop with a floor plan, of course. So during the waiting period between booking my flight to MA and actually moving here, I spent an embarrassing amount of some time planning every little detail of where things would go. This is what the plan was:
Keep in mind that this house is 100 years old. I LOVE that. It has character and beautiful trim and wood floors and bay windows....it's wonderful. The only part that has a question mark attached to it is the kitchen. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind having a kitchen that's broken up into two areas, but I'm OK with it. The big empty room in the middle is one part of the kitchen. It came with the stove, fridge, and washing machine, and I had big dreams of super cheap IKEA countertops and maybe some sort of portable island. The options are endless. The sink and cabinets are in that narrow galley kitchen next to the bathroom. This is fine with me because, let's face it, I rarely cook. (It's on my list...)
Now, the down-side to The Make Room is that it is very user friendly and, therefore, very easy to change the size and shape of items to make them fit the model. This isn't a problem if you have the dimensions of all of your furniture, but mine had been sitting in storage for a year and the only measurements I had were rough estimates of how much room I had when my 6' self laid down on the sectional sofa. As I quickly found out on move-in day, that was a grossly inaccurate estimation. Long story short, half of my sectional is in the living room, and half is on my [enclosed] front porch. Other than that, everything else fit as I had hoped! I did do some shifting and rearranging, but this is how it all looks now:
It all looks very...beige...from this angle, but that's not the case when you can see the wall colors and pictures and paintings and curtains. Anyway, the point of this was so that all you folks at home can follow along when I start posting about all of the DIY and decorating action that's been happening here. Which I WILL post about. Because I'm NOT falling off of the blogging wagon already.
