Take a tour of our city condo as it looked before we moved out at the end of 2017. Click on the images below to open a slideshow in a new browser window.
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- The living room, with the mantel and logs that we installed around year six, became my favorite space.
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- Just about every item in this room is secondhand.
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- The challenge of this space is its narrowness. After a lot of trial and error, we found a love seat to be the best fit for the space. We picked up this West Elm loveseat sleeper through Craigslist.
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- You’ve gotta love a gallery wall, right? What I did not love was filling in all the holes when we moved out!
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- That IKEA cart is still one of my favorite things. I regret not buying two more in that color before it was discontinued.
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- The Mister has owned that military trunk for as long as I’ve known him. It became the perfect coffee table/storage for bed linens in this small space.
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- The logs in the fireplace were stacked but not connected. This made it easy to dismantle the installation. Once a few logs were removed, the whole thing started collapsing.
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- Keeping the remotes corralled is a cinch with this little container filled with glass beads.
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- One of the best things about this condo – and one of the main reasons we chose it – is the abundance of sunlight.
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- The washer and dryer are in the closet behind those louvered doors. Keeping the laundry supplies on that little shelf kept them within arm’s reach of the machines.
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- The chalkboard kitchen is one of the first things I did when we moved into the condo. I never grew tired of it over the ten years we lived there.
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- The Union Jack runner really set the tone for the kitchen. It also made a wonderful catwalk for impromptu walk offs.
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- The stenciled entryway was another feature that I never tired of seeing. It made me smile every time I walked into the condo.
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- The bedroom went through a number of design directions before ending up with this clean, white space.
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- Adding the IKEA wardrobe to one wall made this small space more livable.
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- This school desk is one of the things I’ve owned the longest. I purchased it at a church sale for my first apartment at the age of 19.
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- The plumbing pipe shelves in the den are second only to the mantel installation as my favorite DIY project.
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- This room eventually became known as the den. The DIY patterned curtains closed off an office closet.
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- The Lubi Daybed under the windows became the favored napping placed for human and feline alike.
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- Painting the radiator was a messy, time-consuming and smelly task. And it was totally worth it.
