When the guy downstairs started playing his loud music yesterday {like he does everyday}, all I could think was “I’m SO GLAD I’m moving.” But in general I’m really really sad to leave my apartment. This is our first apartment, the one we moved into after we got married. Two and half years… I really love my neighborhood too. Anyway, I decided to take pictures of each part of the house for posterity. When I first got married I was so gung-ho about decorating and then I sort of got absorbed in other things. There is still a lot I wanted to do to the apartment that I never got around to. This week I’m giving a tour of my apartment, room by room. Today, the living room.

Picture 1: Art books organized by color. I love our English rolled arm sofa, it is so classic. It can go with modern or traditional. I got my zebra nailhead ottoman from Spiegel {their now defunct furniture line.} The artichoke floor lamp from Anthropologie {I got it on super sale, I was so stoked.}

Picture 2: My antique little french chair. It is all that is left from all that french furniture I bought after we got married. The painting is a study of a Cassandra Barney painting, the result of Paul trying to teach me to paint one night. I LOVE my tall linen curtains. They are cheapies from IKEA and I sort of always meant to hem them so they weren’t in such pools of fabric, but I sort of like how they look.
Picture 3: I did a ton of research to find the best flat screen TV. I liked this Sony Aquos because it was only 26″ and didn’t take over the room. I even did the research to figure out how to install it with no wires {only two small holes in the drywall!} The big box under the TV stand is holding our wireless router and lots of other various wires. The other two boxes are holding our DVD collections. I’m pretty good at keeping certain kinds of plants alive. This mostly includes topiaries and succulents.

Picture 4: I found this light fixture after seeing something similiar in the first issue of Domino. I really really love it. I got it on ebay. It doesn’t work in the new apartment, I’m still deciding if I’m going to sell it or store it.
Picture 5: The table {you can’t really see it} is from Crate and Barrel. The chairs I got on super sale from Hold Everything. The parsons desk is from West Elm, so is the rolling filing cabinet. The desk chair is new and from Overstock.com. The large magnet board usually peeks out from behind the open door. I made it with a large piece of sheet metal from Home Depot and found {after much searching} a frame that wasn’t ridiculously expensive off of pictureframes.com.