Introducing: Our Little Apartment!

So after a few full days of cleaning and unpacking, as well as impromptu fit of chaos thanks to a faulty telephone line & random real estate inspections, we're finally settled. Oscar is back with us again {phew!}, we have our little laptops connected to the interwebs, and we're mostly all done here. Now we can relax, I hope!

Anyhoo, enough with the boring stuff. Onwards to the pictures! Let's start with the lounge/dining room. This is my favourite room of the house: it's big, lots bigger than our last place, and it's light, airy & just plain comfortable. Plus, the telly & the laptops live out here, so it's here we spent most of our time. There is also an air conditioning unit here too, which may be another reason why I'm always, always in here. Maybe. Probably. Definitely.

Here's the view as you walk in the door:

And here's the view looking at the room from the opposite side:

Ah, my wee vase of sunflowers: they've been in my room for as long as I can remember, and I love that they've transplanted (ha!) with us here to the new place. Also, I adore our new scattering of furniture - we are living off hand-me-downs for the most part, but all the off-white stuff that you see is from my shop o'dreams, Ikea.

What's that? You want a closer look at the bookshelf? Sure!

This is only half of my DVD collection. Mama needs more space! You can also see the artwork I had commissioned by an artist on Etsy; it was a Christmas present for Jason & will also be making an appearance in our Save the Date cards for our wedding. I love it so.

We even splurged and *gasp* bought a dining table for the first time. Why is that weird? Well, in London, neither of our flats had one included & we made do with eating on our laps. It's SO nice to actually have proper back support while eating and geeking it up online. Having a table makes us feel like grown-ups.

Moving on to our teeny tiny but loveable kitchen:

It's not huge, but it's got everything we need. It's also got a surprisingly large amount of storage space, which is lucky because we had a surprisingly large amount of 'stuff' for the kitchen that we brought with us. Except for baking trays. I forgot to buy baking trays. Must remember to buy baking trays.

Leaving the lounge room now, this is the hallway leading up to the bedrooms. I'll spare you a picture of the laundry and the loo, but they're in their own separate rooms that are off to the right of this picture. Again, it's so nice to have a laundry! In the UK, washing machines are usually somewhere in the kitchen. So weird.

This is the spare bedroom - but for us, it's our storage room. When we're set up and have some funds, we'll invest in a PC for the desk there, but for the meantime it's just for boxes. Oh, and also Jason's clothing! The wardrobes are really small in this place, so we've had to split the cupboard space - my stuff is in our room, his stuff is in here. Compromise. We go well together.

And last but not least, the main bedroom. We didn't buy any furniture for the two bedrooms - these were all pieces we were given from our parents when we moved out. They were both our childhood (well, teenage, really) bedroom sets, so I'm sure the parents were glad to be rid of them and get some storage space! 

We also have a hidden ensuite in our room: I say hidden, because it's located RIGHT BEHIND the main door to the bedroom. So, for example, if you open the bedroom door and walk in leaving it open, you wouldn't even know it was there. You only see the door once you've shut the main bedroom door. Confusing, eh? I wouldn't have even noticed it, save for my mum poking around when we viewed the property before renting it.

So that's that: our new place. 

We're lucky in that it's in a new complex, so we're the first ones to live here & it looks modern and really does feel shiny and new. We have our own undercover locked garage, an intercom system & our own lift - even if it doesn't go all the way up to our floor! It's cosy, and it's starting to feel like home already.