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The Apartment 3 months later: Shelves

Well, I made a promise and I have certainly tarried with the delivery of it, but now here it is. This post is part of a series on what we did to the apartment. View all the posts here. You remember the apartment when we moved in. And we spent the first two months really setting up shop. One of our very best friends moved to Austin shortly after we did, and was looking for a short term and affordable place to rent; the perfect answer was our second bedroom. So, our “formal dining” room became my new office, we always have our friend around and it’s worked out perfectly. On today’s edition of “The Apartment 3 Months Later” we are taking a look at the pipe shelves.

Josh in his infinite genius and handiness made these breathtaking shelves with wood and pipe and half way into our home depot shopping trip I told him I wanted custom lights on the shelves too and he rose to the challenge. I like to give him a hard time about the number of Star Wars/Dr.Who/Thor toys and trinkets on the shelves, but in all honesty – I love how much we’re both represented here. This is the one place I’ll allow knick-knacks and if any of your ever come over, I can give you a background story about every little thing on the shelves.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Saturday, the 20th of December, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: Book Wall & Master Bedroom

Book Wall? Yes, I did have this exact same look in our last apartment in Florida, but I can’t help myself. I did it again. My friend Brie can take you through the steps. She helped me with that first book wall, and I actually helped her with the one in her old room, but this one was all on me. So, two copies of Pride and Prejudice and at least 3 Jules Verne novels later, our walls were covered.

The opposite wall was painted Navy and I decided that painting a poem on a canvas that I randomly water colored with Josh after work one day, could pass for art. I love you, Robert Frost. Some new lamps and matching bedside tables from Target round out my mini master makeover. I’m one very happy girl.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Wednesday, the 29th of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: Walter

Perhaps the biggest challenge of all was finding this sweet sweet bud. He was wandering the streets and we saw him inches away from getting hit by a car. We stopped, picked him up, and took him home. We’ve searched high and low for his owners, scanned him for chips, no such luck. He also had a crazy advanced ear infection and was bone thin. We’ve had him and had been fighting his ear infection for about two months. The vet had him on new ear drops every other week and he HATES having drops put in his ears. Finally, he kicked the infection and is healthy pup once more. He’s finally up to his lowest acceptable weight of 73 POUNDS and never leaves my side all day when I’m working. He has some major separation anxiety though, (he’s had some bad experiences in his four years of life) so we end up staying in more than I would like. He’s so big and really deserves a big yard to run around in, so we knew we couldn’t keep him and were looking for a permanent home for him. I can tell you though, his sweet steady affection for me and his OBSESSION with Josh has pretty much made me a dog person. I know. I know. After months and months of looking, we think we have finally found him a new forever home about 7 hours north in Oklahoma. The girl who contacted us has 3 other dogs, and lives on 5 acres. It’s going to be really hard to let him go. I think all my biological clock hormones have zeroed in on this sweet guy, he’s definitely become my “baby” during his stay. In a few weeks Josh is going to drive him up to his new home in Oklahoma. I’ll keep you updated.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Thursday, the 9th of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: Stand Up Desk

Josh was on a roll with pipe-based furniture so I didn’t want to slow him down. When I was in my former office which we now just call “Bert’s Room” I didn’t even have a real desk I was working on an Ikea console table and it didn’t give me much room. I told josh I wanted a stand up desk like I had at my old office. I held my hands to the height I wanted the desk to be, he measured, and a few hours later (and one quick trip to Ikea to pick up the corner desk top in the as-is section for like $25) my beautiful stand up desk was born.

xoxo,
Adora

p.s. I’m a total bum and i’ve bought a bar stool for the days I just don’t want to stand.

| Posted on Tuesday, the 7th of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: The Couch

While not exactly a project, I’m in LOVE with this couch from Rooms to Go. It’s the first non-ikea piece of furniture we’ve ever bought new, and it was worth every penny. The cats seem bent on destroying it, but I’m enjoying it while I can. You like it? You can get it here. Also, for the record, I pretty much gave Josh carte blanche with the above the couch art and he went hard on the nerd vibe, so yeah those posters are covers of vintage comic books.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Sunday, the 5th of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: TV Nook

We negotiated the acquisition of this GIANT TV from our new roomie Bert, for a couple bucks, one of our older small TV’s, and one month of free rent. Josh is happy. Fortunately we had just gotten this tv stand, that I think is actually supposed to be a buffet for a formal dining room, but we (read: Josh) drilled holes in the back to run chords through and it works perfectly. We even have room for our record player, video game consoles, DVD’s we will probably never watch again, and all our records. Again, this is an Ikea (as-is section) purchase, but I like how mid-century it looks. After painting the back wall of the nook Navy Blue with left over paint from our bedroom, it was done.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Saturday, the 4th of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: music wall

I actually saw a piece of art with this song reference before I ever heard the old crow medicine show song, Wagon Wheel and I was immediately intrigued. I “play” the guitar the way that all girls in high-school played guitar. I know major chords and that was enough to play every worship song from the late 90’s, so I never learned any more. While Josh, just recently got a banjo and is planning on taking lessons. We both said we wanted to hang the instruments up rather than have them in their cases in a closet, so this wall idea was born. I worked with a lovely woman on Etsy to get the vinyl, and at the last second, we decided to add the letters at a 90 degree angle to better fill the wall space. I think it worked out SO well. I’m finding that I play more, if I can just take the guitar down from the wall and then put it back there.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Friday, the 3rd of October, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae

The Apartment 3 months later: Swings

Well, I made a promise and I have certainly tarried with the deliver of it, but now here it is. This post is part of a series on what we did to the apartment. View all the posts here. You remember the apartment when we moved in. And we spent the first two months really setting up shop. One of our very best friends moved to Austin shortly after we did, and was looking for a short term and affordable place to rent; the perfect answer was our second bedroom. So, our “formal dining” room became my new office, we always have our friend around and it’s worked out perfectly. On today’s edition of “The Apartment 3 Months Later” we are taking a look at our porch swings.

Our “back porch” is about 10 square feet of cement and doesn’t have much going on. We tried keeping some things out there, but sadly, they were stolen. The only storage space out there is where the washer and dryer hook up. We weren’t really sure what we wanted to do. I didn’t want to risk buying some cute patio furniture and having it stolen. So, I decided I wanted classic swings, so we could sit out there and gently rock on our two swings and talk about our day. We got about 45 feet of rope and a 2 x 10 board and then I sat inside fanning myself and being fed grapes while Josh labored away (okay not really, but I feel that way when he’s working hard and I’m not). Like everything Josh does, it came out perfectly. So now, we swing – and it’s the cutest darn thing you’ve ever seen.

xoxo,
Adora

| Posted on Sunday, the 28th of September, in the year 2014 by Adora Mae