I cleverly took pictures of the new apartment BEFORE the movers arrived and filled it with boxes, before it was filled with anything, in fact, except sunlight and the scrumptious green dutch oven we received as a wedding present, which I opted to move myself out of a paranoid fear that the professional, licensed, bonded movers would manage to break it in two (it is cast iron, after all—the flimsiest of materials).
—Here is what you see when you open the front door (there are notes in Flickr if you click through):
—And here is my sweet, beloved kitchen, home of my heart, cocoon of my soul:
—And again:
—This is the main room, where we will have a couch and approximately 36,000 books:
The bedrooms look much the same as the living room above, only smaller. There is a sliding door between the two bedrooms—the larger one is where we will sleep, and the smaller we will use as an office and later an office/nursery, should the need arise.
—And this is the clean, shiny bathroom:
I’ll be back tomorrow!
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I love it–how beautiful!
ooh, nice and shiny!
Soooo pretty!! Wow grats
Beautiful! We are living parallel lives here as I was just downloading photos from our move on Friday. I cannot get over those floors. Those shiny, lovely floors that make me want to put on socks to go running down that hallway as fast as I could and then slllliiiiiddddeeeee. Please do that so I can enjoy vicariously.
Congratulations and happy unpacking. I feel your pain there, oh lordy.
Absolutely gorgeous! Every last bit of it!
it’s fab!!!! we even have the same home depot cabinets! too funny. moving sucks soooooo bad. I feel your pain. but the place looks awesome, congratulations. I hope to post a few pics on my blog of our new digs sometime this week.
Look at those shiny floors! When we got our floors put in, I looked at the gleaming expanse and vowed to keep it beautiful and pristine for always. Then I didn’t mop for eight months. In fact, I’m not even sure I OWN a mop.
The new place is lovely – enjoy!
So beautiful! And I love your dutch oven. I look forward to seeing the delightful things that will come out of that kitchen.
your apartment is lovely, and your kitchen is GORGEOUS. *envy*
It’s gorgeous Alexa! I am jealous.
Alexa, I’m drooling! Your apartment looks perfect; bright and tasteful and wonderful. I love the wooden floors. I’m off to make Sarge a honey-do list…
It’s beautiful! I can’t wait to see what it looks like filled with all your stuff :-)
It’s the lime green Le Creuset that I covet most, but the undented woodwork is a close second!
Dear Alexa, that’s beautiful! May that apartment be the site of much joy and happiness.
Absolutely beautiful! So full of light and warmth. Ahhhh . . .
I would like the Le Creuset as well, please. That thing is probably worth as much as my car.
VERY nice! I have kitchen envy! And shiny hardwood floor envy!
I bet you could do your makeup in the floor reflection. So shiny and beautiful!
Oh, Alexa, it’s so beautiful! I’m so jealous- I mean, happy for you!
I’m such a sucker for hardwood floors. It looks gorgeous!