Nick and I have spent today settings things up and unpacking. No pictures yet, but we’ll probably have some tomorrow. Nick cooked dinner on the gas stove for the first time tonight. He’s very happy to have gas again instead of electric.

I put together some before and after photos of the apartment. The before photos are on the left and the after photos are on the right. Sorry that some of the before photos are old; I forgot to take pictures before we started packing. Whoops!

Bathroom:

Bedroom (the loft):

Kitchen:

Living Room:

Office:

Nick just finished hooking up the TV and components… and we’re very, very happy to report that we have PBS again! We don’t watch a ton of TV, so we just have an inexpensive indoor TV antenna that we use to pick up basic channels. PBS was the main channel we watched back in Michigan, but we weren’t able to get it at our apartment in Seattle. We get FOX and a few other channels now, too. Pretty cool!

Just turned in our keys! We went over there this morning to pick up a few final things and do some last minute cleaning.

We’re going to set up internet at our house today, so expect a longer blog post later.

We were lucky this morning, because it wasn’t raining. After our second trip, we went to the store to get some mattress covers in case it rains tomorrow. By the time we left the store, it was raining pigs and chickens! We got soaked on our way back to the car. The clouds have calmed down since then and it’s sunny and clear again. I sure hope tomorrow will be rain-free, but it looks like there may be some scattered showers. Fingers crossed that they avoid us!

Nick and I will probably do another load or two tonight, leaving not much more than furniture for tomorrow!

Getting into Gunter was not an easy task yesterday! I think our neighbors have gotten crazier now that we know we’re moving… either that, or I’m just super impatient about moving.

It’s just after 4am. I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t fall back asleep. Nick’s mom and Donna should be starting their trip to Seattle right about now. Yay!

Our New Apartment

Working from left to right, row by row:

1. This is our “not so great room.” Nick and I used to call the equivalent room at the old apartment the “great room,” but Mom giggled at us when we tried to call it that. Due to its size, it has now been deemed the “not so great room.” The pile of boxes has been slowly diminishing each day. Nick and I bought a coffee table on Sunday, but it’s still in its box for now (we didn’t think our glass coffee table would survive the move, so we didn’t bother bringing it). There are windows along the entire left wall that look out onto some pretty trees, grass, and a children’s play area. The kitchen is on the other side of the half-wall behind the couch. The ladder goes up to the…

2. Loft! This is the view of the “not so great room” from the loft. Our bedroom furniture couldn’t all fit in one room, so it’s scattered throughout the apartment. Thus, Nick’s armoire is next to the TV. We hooked up our TV, Internet, and Playstation 3 over the weekend. I think we’re waiting to find some cables before we hook up the Wii.

3. The loft is serving as our bedroom (the actual bedroom was too small). There are a few windows in the loft and there is a fair bit of room at the foot of the bed (we have a nightstand and small dresser there for now).

4. Our little kitchen! We have had to be especially creative in this kitchen because there is only one usable above-counter cabinet. There is a small cabinet above the fridge that is essentially unusable and another above the stove that has hardly any storage space and I can’t reach it anyway. Also, unlike the old apartment, we don’t have a pantry. We found a nice bookshelf at Dania that we wanted to use as a makeshift pantry (and, later, as a bookshelf… once we found a house), but they were on backorder until September. So we bought a five-tier shelving unit from Storables instead, which sits in the entryway.

5. This is our office, which was supposed to be the bedroom. It is quite small. Nick and I got some desks at Ikea on Sunday, because we left our computer desks behind. We have another five-tier shelving unit in the back corner for additional storage, which left just enough room for the dresser.

6. Our desks in the office. My desk is on the left (Nick’s is not set up yet) and the room ends at the left edge of my desk. There is also a small closet to my left.

Ta da! That is our new apartment. It’s small, but we like it. We love the location – we are right next to Magnuson Park and only a short drive/bus ride from the University of Washington!