Home Sweet Home

It has been an exhausting week! When we got back from Minnesota we had to pack and move all my stuff into Chuck's apartment, rearrange Chuck's apartment to make room for my stuff, and being the OCD person I am I had to thoroughly SCRUB the apartment before I deemed it clean enough to live in. (Hey it's been a bachelor's seminary apartment for I don't know how many years--it was definitely NOT up to my standards of cleanliness!) I thought you'd enjoy seeing photos along the way--some are pretty entertaining. I am completely wiped but am happy with the progress that's been made :)

The before pictures--Chuck & George's room--we'd already moved the futon George slept on out of the room at this point.The living room--with the futon mattress already in the middle of the roomWe thought we'd put the futon mattress up on the loft to get it out of the way--except it's super heavy. So I got up there and tried to pull it up but then got a little stuckOn Thursday we had some help from a couple of great friends who helped move my stuff in. I came in a few hours later and asked Chuck 'Um where did you & Ryan put my couch? Is it in here?' Yes, to answer that question--it is...can you see it? Nope you can't.Where did my husband go?? This is the point where he looked at me and said "there is NO way this is all going to fit" I said give me a couple days and that I would fix it.Ta da! This is what the room looks like today...The view from the kitchen.I spent about 5 hours yesterday cleaning this kitchen--scrubbing, shelf papering, washing the front of cabinets, cleaning the fridge...it was getting kind of bad. Chuck even went out & got me new burner covers since the others had literally had holes cooked through them...The bedroom is still a work in progress, but it's getting there. Chuck's desk moved to the living room and mine is under the loft (which is extra storage right now) so I have my own little office. We were going to put the bed under the loft but we got pull out drawers under the bed that won't work if that's where we had put it. So we have to climb over furniture a bit but it's ok :)