Busy Bisbey : All Settled In

Russell and I are finally all settled into our new apartment! Like any decision I make I over thought this one too! We looked at 7 or 8 different apartment complexes before finally deciding on the one we chose.

One thing that we had to figure out was where we were going to fit Russell's music things and my hoarding since the new place didn't have patio storage! ;) Hopi suggested I go through things and get rid of stuff, which would've made sense, butttt I challenged myself to make it all fit!

I had most things put away in the first few days! :) Hanging things up was a different story! I finally finished that this past weekend!

Move in

So, I got creative with storage! :) Russell's music stuff is above the washer and dryer. This place has really tall ceilings which I used to my advantage.

Laundry Area

Coat closet

Holiday stuff and college hoarding :)

Pantry (AKA storage for things we use)

Linens, air beds, shopping bags, board games etc.

Now, to the good stuff. :) Decor. I decided when we moved in here that I wanted to buy very few new things. We just did all of that a year ago when we moved into our last apartment. So, I only bought curtains, bath mats (we have two sinks now-which changed things a bit), picture hanging strips, diploma frames and a frame for engagement pics. :)

So before the Texas State wall looked like this...

It looked like...

Picture wall-last year this took me about six hours to do! This year, I wised up bad bought picture hanging command strips and arranged it on the floor first.