Home Tour

Only six months after I moved into my apartment, I’m finally ready to take you on a home tour. Yay! I wanted to wait until I had specific furniture items purchased because otherwise, it just looked like a half-empty apartment. Ha. But I have it in a really good place now, even though there are definitely upgrades I still want to make. But that’s the way it always goes! Nothing is ever 100% perfect or done. 🙂

ENTRYWAY

Here’s what I see when I open the door to my apartment (see if you can find Lila, who was sneaking out of my bedroom to run under the couch, hehe).

And here’s the entryway from inside the apartment. I don’t love the rug I have in front of the door (it curls up weird and catches on the bottom of the door) so I’ll probably switch it out soon. But I do love having a basket of shoes right at the front door. No more running around the apartment to find my shoes!

A quick peek at this key/mail holder. I use the hooks for my mask collection, my purse, keys, and umbrella (hidden behind my purse). In the top organizing section, I keep a secondary pair of prescription sunglasses, a Starbucks gift card I need to add to my account, and bookmarks.

LIVING ROOM

Here’s the first view of my living room, which is probably familiar as I showed you guys this when debuting my new couch. I want to continue adding to my gallery wall so it’s a little unfinished as of now. The wall next to it, with Mixtiles of Dutch and the girls, is unfinished, too. I plan on filling up that entire wall with photos. I also plan on getting a new area rug. I’m using my old one for now, since Lila likes to lie under the couch and it gives her something soft to lay on. (Also, that rug is usually littered with cat toys, but I removed them for this photo, hehe.) I’m still not sure whether or not I will keep the lamp in the corner. I like that it has a place for me to stack my library books but I’m also drawn to something like this. And, of course, I plan on buying a coffee table soon!

Here’s the other side of my living room. My next big home purchase will be a bigger TV. I also want to get something for this big wall, but I’m not sure what yet. Maybe a big canvas of a map? I love my TV stand/bookshelf. The top half is filled with Book of the Month books, my Anne of Green Gables collection, and Chatbooks, and the bottom half is for organization. The girls rarely use the cat tower and I’m thinking of getting rid of it. But I dunno. The little brown thingy next to the tower is a “cat sack,” but only Lila uses it and she only ever sleeps on top of it.

OFFICE NOOK

My office nook is in this extra little space of my living room, right in front of a big window. I just bought the curtains (currently held off to the side) because I quickly learned that having a big window at your back is not great for video calls. So I close the curtains whenever I need to be on video (which is probably only a few times a month; not enough that it’s annoying to have to “prep” my space) and also put on my ring light, which is the little circle you see above my computer monitors.

I love, love, love my desk. I have two blankets for the girls—one of them is usually sleeping on the one to my left, and I just love having them close by. I also love having my big desktop at home, it makes working SO much easier! I have my screens on risers because they just sit too low on my desk without them.

And, of course, the newest part of my office nook is my Etsy prints! They bring me great joy. 🙂

PATIO

Right off my office nook is my patio with my happy patio furniture. I’ve already shown you guys what it looks like, but I’ll add it here, too, just to provide the complete picture. The outside closet is used to store Christmas supplies, extra linens, and extra cat supplies (to be used if I ever have to evacuate!)

DINING ROOM

My sweet little dining room. I love it so much. Those two wall hangings I found discarded by the dumpster on the week of my move, so I brought them home with me. I really love them! (The one on the side says, “Love is the best ingredient.”) I adore my dining room table and I recently added that bookshelf to house more books. It also functions as an organizer for extra shoes, linens, and odds and ends. Next to the bookshelf sits a cat bed that the girls don’t use anymore—I think due to the location? I need to figure out a better place for it, maybe. And then beyond the table is the girls’ food. I fill up the bowls every morning and they graze on it throughout the day.

KITCHEN

I adore my kitchen because it’s such an upgrade from what I previously had. It’s a galley kitchen (common in apartments!) with lots of cabinets and even a little pantry (although the doorway of the pantry is super narrow so it can be a little hard to use).

Tucked away in the corner of my kitchen, across from the fridge, is my stackable washer/dryer. I don’t love this washer/dryer because it’s smaller than what I used to have and the dryer is SO LOUD. Meh.

BEDROOM

My sweet bedroom! I love this space so much. I would like to get more things up on the walls, specifically over my bed. I’m not sure what I want there just yet, though. I’d also like to buy these floating bookshelves to hang on the furthest wall for additional book storage (when needed; so far, I’m doing okay with book storage).

To the left is my cube bookshelf and my new spin bike. I used to have a litter box in the corner, but now both litter boxes are in the closet.

To my right, is my bed, which takes up the majority of the room, and my dresser (that also functions as a nightstand).

Next to my bed is the walk-in closet. I have the girls’ litter boxes in here as well as my laundry basket. All of my “winter” clothes are on the left side of the closet along with some nicer tops that don’t quite fit me right now (which I should just get rid of; why am I keeping clothes that don’t fit me and I likely won’t be wearing anytime soon?!) Lila likes to sleep under these clothes, though, and it’s always a rude awakening when I’m rifling through them for a jacket and she comes running out from under there. The rest of my clothes are on the right (organized by dresses, cardigans, “nice” shirts, and t-shirts). My heavy peacoat and rain jacket are on the right side, closest to the door.

BATHROOM

There’s a small hallway that connects my bedroom and bathroom, and the hallway houses my HVAC closet and a secondary linen closet. Then, there’s my bathroom! It’s much bigger than the one at my old place with an extra closet.

I try to keep my countertop neat as possible so I keep my hair supplies in these little jars (headbands, scrunchies, elastics, clips, etc.) and then have an organizer caddy for my daily toiletry supplies (mostly skincare products, but also hairbrushes, toothpaste, floss picks, deodorant, etc.)

The cabinet below my counter houses another caddy (I love these caddies so much—I also have two under the sink in my kitchen for cleaning supplies) for other toiletries that are used less frequently as well as a basket for washcloths (now that I have an actual skincare routine that I go through twice a day, I go through so many washcloths!) and a basket for my hair dryer/straightener/bubble wand. I also keep some of my bathroom-centric cleaning supplies under the counter.

Lastly, there’s my bathroom closet. It’s so nice to have this! I keep extra towels, extra toiletry supplies, my makeup, first aid stuff, my makeup mirror, etc. in this closet. (Like the closet in my kitchen, it’s very narrow so I try to keep things in easy reach!)

And there you have it! This wound up being a lot more detailed than I was expecting, but I think it’s fascinating to get a glimpse into people’s homes and the way they set them up. 🙂