We’ve been working very hard on making our home liveable… this means finding a place for everything, which is intensely challenging for a number of reasons. The main reasons are:
1) horribly designed cabinetry and VERY little usable storage space in our 1-bedroom apartment
2) enjoying lots of hobbies that require large equipment, such as a full-sized keyboard, keyboard stand, amp, boom mic stand, skateboard, longboard, and snowboard, skiis that aren’t even here yet (they’re in Spokane!), 2 bikes, etc.
Leading up to the wedding, our apartment was a horrendous mess of clutter, random boxes of my things because I was working on moving in, and random boxes of Eric’s things because we agreed not to decorate or make it homey until I could live there too. That agreement made it easier to go home when I should have.
Add to that the wedding week and wedding supplies, Eric’s bachelor party happening and some of the guys staying at the apartment with him, and housing the groomsmen for the weekend of the wedding, and it was surely more than I wanted to come home to. Incredibly, our wonderful families cleaned the apartment (as well as they could) the day after the wedding, when we were on our way to Maui. I’m posting some “before” pictures, and soon I’ll do an “after” post showing improvements we’ve made, decorations, additions, etc.
I was overwhelmed (in a good way) and didn’t think to take pictures of the disaster, but here’s a vague idea of what our families did for us. Hopefully adding some apartment improvement posts soon! :]
