There isn't a bumpdate today because we spent the entire weekend packing and moving out of our little one bedroom apartment. It was an emotional weekend (preggo hormones mixed with exhaustion) but we made it. The bumpdate will be postponed until I can get to doing the chalkboard. Hopefully it will be up on Wednesday. Why are we moving? Rent.....it's outrageous in L.A. With the economy increasing, so are the rent prices and honestly we cannot afford to keep living with the extravagant prices, especially with a baby on the way. So we packed up our apartment into a 10x15 storage unit and moved in with my in-laws to start sacking away some money for a house. It's a sacrifice that we decided would be worth it in the long run for our growing family. Is it an ideal situation? Of course not. Will we make the best out of the situation. Definitely. I say that this move was emotional on many levels. We have grown so much as a couple living in this apartment, and I have grown leaps and bounds as a person as well. This apartment has seen a lot of sadness, from the loss of my father; to our ectopic pregnancy. We had the thunderstorm incident here as well. It also witnessed our greatest joy, finally becoming pregnant with our first child. We have grown closer and have fallen even more in love here. It has by far been my most favorite place we have lived. Not because of the location, or the actual complex itself. It was the layout, our neighbors and just the feeling that we had there.
I figured I would give you a little peak into our world. People say to me all the time, "Your a designer? You probably have a beautiful home!" Well as we all know, creating a beautiful home costs money. And being a designer causes me to have expensive taste. So while I think our home is comfy and cozy, its really full of hand-me-downs mixed in with a couple of pieces that we have purchased ourselves. A lot of these photo's are from when we first moved in, so the don't include our new to us recliners or our new comforter that I made (post to come) but you can see how we spent the majority of our three years living in this apartment.
Here's our main living space. We no longer have those wing chairs or that gigantic projection tv, we added curtains to the windows after our first heat blasting summer as well. We love our storage chests and I love our hand-me-down sofa as well (regardless of how ugly it is underneath that slipcover!)
Our dining room is something that was new to our old apartment. I love our countertop table with chairs cause Miss Shelby cannot get her head on it! We had a little mini bar set up and a wine rack also. That photo of the tree with the sunset was taken by my great hubby and I blew it up and framed it for him. You can see it larger here.
Our apartment kitchen....complete with a martini theme.....although most of the time it was just a mess! It's a kitchen!
I figured I would give you a little peak into our world. People say to me all the time, "Your a designer? You probably have a beautiful home!" Well as we all know, creating a beautiful home costs money. And being a designer causes me to have expensive taste. So while I think our home is comfy and cozy, its really full of hand-me-downs mixed in with a couple of pieces that we have purchased ourselves. A lot of these photo's are from when we first moved in, so the don't include our new to us recliners or our new comforter that I made (post to come) but you can see how we spent the majority of our three years living in this apartment.
Here's our main living space. We no longer have those wing chairs or that gigantic projection tv, we added curtains to the windows after our first heat blasting summer as well. We love our storage chests and I love our hand-me-down sofa as well (regardless of how ugly it is underneath that slipcover!)
Our dining room is something that was new to our old apartment. I love our countertop table with chairs cause Miss Shelby cannot get her head on it! We had a little mini bar set up and a wine rack also. That photo of the tree with the sunset was taken by my great hubby and I blew it up and framed it for him. You can see it larger here.
Our apartment kitchen....complete with a martini theme.....although most of the time it was just a mess! It's a kitchen!
Our bedroom that doubled as an office. This is where the blog posts were composed....it was also the dumping ground for when people came over. The bookcase got moved into our closet last year and we bought another dresser from Ikea. You can really see my love for teal and grey in our bedding. Baby girl is probably going to have a teal, pink and grey nursery.....that's how much I love it!
Here's our balcony. It was perfect to eat dinner or have a cocktail after work on hot summer days and it overlooked the pool and a wonderful piece of grass. The hubby always bbq'd out here as well.
There you have it....a look into our home for the last three years. Bittersweet, but in the end it will be worth it! Happy St. Patties Day!!
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