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Show Off Your Place: The New Apartment Thread for Nosy People (NSF56K)
Janson
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Well, we have not had one of these in a little while, and I always find them interesting! Post pictures of your apartments/houses/rooms!
@Moriveth and I actually moved this past week. We'd originally planned to hire professional movers, but Mori convinced me we could do it ourselves. Right? WRONG! I thought he was being a little optimistic, and I think he had begun to realise this by the third day. After renting a 15-foot truck, and making at least 10 trips with the car, we had moved all of our possessions... but had yet to do any sorting. Cue a forgotten Christmas, as we worked 18 hours a day to get the place looking reasonably livable. On Saturday this was how our new apartment looked:
By Monday, however, we were about finished! We were/are so excited. This is the first decent place we've had all to ourselves (we lived on our own for two years, but it was a sub-300 sq ft studio apartment full of spiders and dust; hardly ideal! We have a spare room for the first time in our lives!
This is how the living room looks now:
(it's not a great photo, but gives an idea of the space).
We did have a sofa, but fuck moving that. The lovesac will suffice for now.
The kitchen! Man this is a pretty sweet kitchen. Okay, so the cupboards are fairly cheap painted plywood, but there are so many of them. We can actually stash things away instead of on the floor/on top of appliances/on top of the cupboards.
We were even able to keep the guinea-pigs off the carpets and have a space to eat:
(The matching dining table for those chairs is actually being used as our computer desk, at least for now).
We have space! This is still boggling my mind a little. Actually, this is to be the eventual baby room. But for now it's a very handy storage area for our leftover books and odds and ends.
Our bedroom! Having had a cluttered bedroom for, well, forever, I'm relishing the bareness of it right now. But we'll eventually put up our pictures (we have a whole stash of pictures in the spare room) and buy a dresser and maybe a couple of tables.
The cats totally approve.
Phew! It was a hard (and expensive) couple of weeks, but so worth it. It really feels like home! So, what do you all have? (And if you have a house you can actually repaint and decorate, I'm still jealous!)
@Moriveth and I actually moved this past week. We'd originally planned to hire professional movers, but Mori convinced me we could do it ourselves. Right? WRONG! I thought he was being a little optimistic, and I think he had begun to realise this by the third day. After renting a 15-foot truck, and making at least 10 trips with the car, we had moved all of our possessions... but had yet to do any sorting. Cue a forgotten Christmas, as we worked 18 hours a day to get the place looking reasonably livable. On Saturday this was how our new apartment looked:
By Monday, however, we were about finished! We were/are so excited. This is the first decent place we've had all to ourselves (we lived on our own for two years, but it was a sub-300 sq ft studio apartment full of spiders and dust; hardly ideal! We have a spare room for the first time in our lives!
This is how the living room looks now:
(it's not a great photo, but gives an idea of the space).
We did have a sofa, but fuck moving that. The lovesac will suffice for now.
The kitchen! Man this is a pretty sweet kitchen. Okay, so the cupboards are fairly cheap painted plywood, but there are so many of them. We can actually stash things away instead of on the floor/on top of appliances/on top of the cupboards.
We were even able to keep the guinea-pigs off the carpets and have a space to eat:
(The matching dining table for those chairs is actually being used as our computer desk, at least for now).
We have space! This is still boggling my mind a little. Actually, this is to be the eventual baby room. But for now it's a very handy storage area for our leftover books and odds and ends.
Our bedroom! Having had a cluttered bedroom for, well, forever, I'm relishing the bareness of it right now. But we'll eventually put up our pictures (we have a whole stash of pictures in the spare room) and buy a dresser and maybe a couple of tables.
The cats totally approve.
Phew! It was a hard (and expensive) couple of weeks, but so worth it. It really feels like home! So, what do you all have? (And if you have a house you can actually repaint and decorate, I'm still jealous!)
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it feels very good to get all the clutter sorted
Then there are the boxes with odds and ends - loose coins, short wires; we have two whole boxes just full of electric cables of various kinds!
what you're talking about there is getting organized ma'am
also, meant to say this before, but
that looks like quite a nice place
congrats to you and mori
I honestly just hate my place, and it never feels worth the effort to make it up proper
Thank you! It is a lovely place. Oh man, I really am so pleased. I've rented some nice rooms before, but this is the first time of having a decent everything-else to ourselves, too. I keep obsessively cleaning the kitchen.
I even organised our closet according to clothes types, with least-worn clothes all in the hard-to-reach corners.
Feels so good.
Now we have a few months to ourselves before the baby arrives and everything goes to pot
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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@Aphostile, rubbish, all places are interesting!
Also our walls totally look bare, gotta get around to hammering in those picture nails
the build quality and utilization of space is way better than what we're used to
I am really looking forward to getting out of school and maybe hanging around someplace for a bit
but I'm also terrified of getting Stuck, so we'll see
Though my most probable path in life is apartment hopping, sigh
it's like I enter another reality when I go in there
shit's like Tlon and my computer is the only window I have into real life
But then again I've never had a desire to live in a bunch of different places. Visit, sure.
Oh god no.
Do this instead.
So you guys are planning on moving the hell out of California or selling your soul then, huh?
as far as apartment hopping, that's totally cool! buying a house or an apartment should not be the Obligatory Adult Step that we act like it is
uh the bay area is a lil slice of heaven
Oh, it SO IS. Mori and I remained for more than two years in the tiny, spider-infested place (and I haaaate spiders!) just because it was going to be such a hassle to move. Also...
12 different places in the last 11 years, for me!
Getting 'stuck' now is actually a bit of a relief! I know what you mean, though; I get itchy feet after several years, and I have a great amount of fun living in new cities.
:^:
My parents' place (now just my mother's place, since they separated) had plenty of space and was pretty decent home for a family of 8 - but honestly the build quality is crap! Damp on the walls, disintegrating bathroom floors/ceilings (despite repair work - the core structure is just too poor), slugs in the kitchen, it's damp and draughty... my poor mother can't wait to move, and have a smaller, more manageable space. I can't blame her!
We could actually afford a 2-3 bedroom, ~1100 sq ft property at the current prices - we just don't have the employment history or history of outgoing expenses banks would like to see. The market's surprisingly good right now; as long as prices don't suddenly jump and mortgage interest rates remain at their current levels we should be in a pretty good position in a couple of years! I'm being realistic and not expecting to be owning a very large or luxurious place.
fully expect to just get tired of rolling around at some point
not there yet, though
Noe Valley, west Mission, something like that. She's also partial to North Beach
she wants me to go in halfsies, but hell if I am opting into any sort of financial situation with that insane woman
Yeah; prices and availability here are pretty difficult, too.
We really lucked out with this place; saw it on padmapper and it was almost instantly gone, but the original renters changed their minds, and the apartment manager happened to have Mori's number on file still! It's quite close to my work (about 5 miles away), accepts cats, and is the cheapest for the square footage we found - $1,430 a month for 1,000 sq ft. We've been here a week and so far it's quiet, the floors aren't creaky, it has an awesome central heating unit, and our neighbours seem pretty friendly!
Definitely agreed, but moving around is still such a hassle.
I've been reading a blog about a pair of ladies who quit their jobs to travel around Asia for 6 months. Very idealistic but it still got me dreaming.
there are always dogs
so many dogs
Fortunately Mori and I happen to work in slightly cheaper areas of the Bay Area; I mean, you can go pretty much five miles either way and yeah, you'd be paying about the same! Even in our area $1400 will more often only get you 800 sq ft, so like I said, REALLY lucky!
I think Palo Alto had a 300 sq ft studio on sale for a sweet $700k.
this is noteworthy because they are not wealthy, at all
one of them in particular is definitely broke as hell, but he somehow manages to wind up all over the damn world with no apparent issues regarding visas, tickets, schedules or cash. He's not a jerky faux-Kerouac, either, he's a perfectly nice guy (if a lil nutty, he's a circus performer and a big Burning Man guy)
I'd like to talk to him about how he manages it, but I know that at least part of it is that there are a surprising amount of programs out there that want to pay for you to do stuff
also not letting money fear control your life
They work exactly as promised on the pack. I was concerned with the blistering hot summers we get over here, but they don't fall off the wall, and they don't leave marks/residue.
The ones for wire-backed frames are rated to 8 pounds, if your picture is heavier than that, just use two or more hangers.
I'm envious; they've been to some amazing places... but then again I do appreciate warm showers and clean clothes and not having to pack up everything I own into something that can be carried on my back.
I think it can be cheap or expensive depending on where you go and what you do. They're taking cheaper public transport options - trains, buses, hitch-hiking - where possible, eat the local food, and learning to haggle!
It's always tough; part of me wants to travel and be freer and get outdoors more, and part of me wants to relax at home and enjoy TV shows and play games. I suppose I'm quite lucky in that I quickly adapt to new places and new ways of life; I've never, ever been homesick, and as soon as I step foot into a new place it tends to feel like home.
I would love to own a big country home and be able to paint the walls and choose hardwood floors and create a living space that could be in a magazine, and yet I do appreciate the convenience of inner city living, and I am pretty pumped just to have a place where the walls and carpet are new and neutral! And at least with renting you don't have to worry about repairs or home improvements.
it basically sounds like you like a lot of stuff
which is a pretty dang great place to be
The only problem I ever have is deciding what to do!