We moved in a little over a month ago and unfortunately we are still a little unsure about what exactly to unpack. With our immediate future plans sooooo up in the air, we don't want to accumulate anymore furniture than we have. In fact, we sold some of our furniture right when we moved (it was the start of the term at the UO so it was the best time to sell.)
So basically I am trying to justify our little apartment's state of affairs. So yeah ... its not much, but it is ours and I have done my best to make it home.
BEFORE
(aka - moving in)
(remember that face from this post? yup, told you i saw it almost everyday)
Stuff everywhere! This is our living room and the doorway
into the eat-in kitchen.
This is the opposite view - from the eat-in kitchen looking into the living room.
The eat-in kitchen was our "staging area" and still sort of is at this point.
We can conveniently store our packing boxes and bins behind the wall
separating the living room from the kitchen.
Here is our itty-bitty kitchen which of course does not have enough counter space.
The disaster that was our bedroom!
AFTER:(aka: a little decorating to make it home)
Living Room
More living Room
This is on the wall behind the sofa - my thrift-store found framed mirror
(I found it at a Eugene Goodwill when looking for milk glass for our wedding)
and my dear friend Ally's two screen prints of a photo I took back in my DC days
of a light post outside the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress.
I love these prints and I love Ally - she is soo very talented
Living Room Corner ... trying to hide our storage bins :) underneath a scrap
piece of curtains, a lamp, a watercolor of the temple frames - under our
framed marriage certificate.
The entryway between living room and eat-in-kitchen. Thanks to my
old roommate Tiffany, we have a kitchen table and chairs to eat at!
And of course to help Nate feel at home,
we hung his Henry Weinhard's Root Beer sign -
the kitchen area seamed the most appropriate for it.
Eat-in-kitchen! Thanks Tiffany!
Itty-bitty kitchen ... not much change there ...
but I did hang a LARGE frame I already had and it fits perfectly above the sink.
Have I mentioned that I LOVE owls ...
I also found these two little guys at the Eugene Goodwill -
they were unfinished white ceramics which I snatched up while hunting for wedding milk glass. I hung these on the hallway wall across from our bedroom on the way to the bathroom -
not the best picture, but you get the idea.
My refurbished window frame turned bulletin board
hangs on our bathroom door.
Our blue and brown bathroom.
No photos of our bedroom because its not much to look at. We don't have any bedroom furniture besides a bed and box spring on the floor and two mismatched side tables.
We don't even have a dresser to put our stuff in ... we are that sad :( but we don't
want to buy one for fear we may be moving in a few short months.
So, that is our humble first apartment! YAY for new roommates!
My mom altered my wedding dress (added some longer length sleeves to a strapless dress - the longer length sleeves prevented the whole "big arm" look really well I think!) and I really like how it turned out with the square neck and applique on the sleeves. I also really like how you can't tell its been altered ... she did a great job!
Another note about the dress - it was $100 at David's Bridal ... straight and simple and just what I wanted. I spent exactly 2 hours trying on dresses before buying. Never tried on a wedding dress until the day I bought one. So don't knock it before you try it ... that's all I am saying.
Nate thinks I look like I am morning my husband dead at sea on our wedding day in this one.
Can you believe i went out on a rock into the OCEAN in my WEDDING DRESS the DAY BEFORE our WEDDING DAY? I can't either. I was totally not worried about it ... like everything else about our wedding ... And the picture is amazing.
A frame that I painted and used at the reception.
This one is very VOGUE - strike a pose - to me.
