Our Apartment

It is certainly not ideal and we don't love living in a two bedroom apartment but being in the same town as Chris and not being by myself at night is for sure worth the sacrifice of living space. We are starting to make this small apartment feel like home and each day we find some new way to make things more convenient, easier or comfortable. I thought it was time to show a few pictures of our new place.

Here is the living room/dining room/entrance to the kitchen. We don't have much on the walls yet, we are still working on that.

This is one side of the very small kitchen. I have decided that people that live in apartments must not typically cook a lot or at least not cook elaborate meals because the lack of counter space and baking equipment storage is killing me!
The other side of the kitchen. Aren't those cabinets beautiful?! The doors are not actually wood, they are plastic!
This is our bedroom. Really just our massive bed right now. We do have one dresser against the wall that you can't see and one night stand. Eventually we will add the bassinet and changing table to this room somewhere.


Looking from our bedroom toward the bathroom, we do have a pretty nice big closet. Chris actually made his dresser fit in the there. And this is the lovely bathroom. The counters are some kind of white and gold fake marble sort of stuff and the white cabinets, again plastic not wood, have a beautiful gold trim to match!
This is a very dark Sam's room. Not much to it so that fact that the picture stinks doesn't really matter.

And that is it. We live on the first floor so there is no deck or balcony. We have a small concrete slab right outside the sliding glass doors from our living room but with winter coming we don't anticipate using that for much. I plan on planting our Christmas tree right in front of those doors anyway so then we won't even be able to go out them!

All in all we are learning how to make the most of the space and working with it. It isn't much but with only one salary, a full mortgage and rent to pay this is what we can afford. The neighborhood is great with at least four parks within walking distance and lots of green space to explore. We will bundle up and head outside for as long as we can.

Okay, time to get dressed and head out on some errands! We are going to get our library card today. Very exciting!