The Adventures of Grover and Tylene: The New Apartment

Happy New Year!

So I have been a little lax in getting my blogs out each week...but what can you expect when I've spent the last month gallivanting around Europe (tee hee hee)

At any rate, I will make up for it this week with many a post and pictures of life as it was in the last month. Perhaps weekly blog updates will be my new year's resolution!

I was delighted to come home yesterday and arrive to an apartment that feels "like home". It's so great to finally feel "settled in"...a feeling that certainly makes the whole life-in-the-desert a whole lot easier to take!

I took a few pictures of my apartment before I left...I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Now, to fix the leak in my spare bathroom (yes, I have two bathrooms...one is technically now my laundry room, but still!)

The front door...Enter at your own risk (tee hee hee)

Sadly the pretty wooden look is actually just really good mack-tack. Meh, what can you do! For those who wish to visit, Number 51!

As you walk in the front door, you see my fabulously orange accent wall and my living room! The furniture leaves a little something to be desired, but I did what I could with what I have. It's amazing how much better it looks in my apartment now that it is painted.

Oooh, check out the brown curtains too! Loverly, and custom made!

Some of my fabulous IKEA purchases. The little table that my lab top on is so cool. The laptop side slides up underneath and then you just have the one table...don't even have to take the laptop off for the table to slide. Now, I must admit it was a bit unpleasant to put together, but I would say it's one of my favourite pieces in my apartment.

And the chair...the most comfortable thing I've ever sat in! Now just need to make a wee bit of money to buy the matching stool!

My little "coffee/television" stand. I have yet to purchase a tele, but perhaps in the future. Then I could have great guitar hero parties! The table was also an IKEA purchase, but this time, very easy to assemble. Also check out the fabulous lamp that doesn't look as diminutive in real life. It has a match on one of the end tables I painted.

This is my little corner. you see it just as you come in the front door. I'd wanted a closed cabinet because I have a turd of a cat that steals things. This way I could lock away my pretties and she'd not be able to get 'em. Tee hee hee. I'm smarter than my cat! HOWEVER, whoever said putting doors on a cabinet was easy, must have some sort of architecture degree or something. SERIOUSLY took all night to assemble this one. Many thanks to Mel, a dear friend, who helped with the assembly of this and many other IKEA pieces.

My Kitchen. check out all those cupboards. My previous Kuwait apartment had two cupboards and four draws. Needless to say, i am enjoying the space. Walls, are of course, floor to ceiling tile. I have a balcony off my kitchen as well!

The hallway that leads past the kitchen to my bathroom and bedroom. The other end of the hall has what would be "maid quarter" but I use it for my laundry room and my kitties room. They have a whole little section of the apartment to themselves. If only they'd keep their hair there instead of all over the place...


My main bathroom...can't find a shower curtain to fit from wall to wall...freakishly long. Will need to get another curtain to extend it! More great IKEA purchases include the standing shelf in the corner and the little stool that stores my towels.

This is my bedroom. I know the curtains are quite bright, but it looks really cool. I've tied the green into the area rug as well as into a little IKEA box thing at the foot of my bed. The last picture shows the great decorator I am in using multiple colours in one room.

I will get pics up on the walls and then it shall be complete, but it is already much more homey than I could have imagined.

Next post: The Ireland adventure!