I hope you are all well! I have been on "stay-cation" this week and I spent my time off getting my new apartment allllll put together :) This week was also my 32nd birthday! Normally, I spend my birthday week engaging in a lot of fanfare and bar-hopping. This year was a lot more quiet and subdued...and I liked it ;)
Please come on in and take a little tour of what makes this apartment "home" to me!
When you first walk in you have the option of going to the dining/kitchen area on the right or the living area on the left. This space pictured above is supposed to be the dining room but I've turned it into my study/sewing/hoop making/reading/record player area.
I hoard two things - books and clothes. I loveeeee my bookshelf. It's full of books I've collected from elementary school until now.
I learned a phrase the other day, "vade mecum." It refers to a favorite book carried everywhere and it literally means "go with me." My vade mecum is a collection of essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I do NOT board airplanes without this thing in my bag!
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| Map Wall |
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| Love my Austin Field Guide and I can't wait to get sewing again :) |
That cross is from Cloudcroft, NM. I got it on a trip with my great Aunt Jane and Uncle Tom :) One thing one notices about my style in my home is that I am sentimental. If I attach some meaning to an object - it's on display! Speaking of display...
For some reason this shelf is called the "cowboy shelf" in our family. I have it filled with random things I don't want to put away but I have no real place for. It includes:
- photographs of me and katie, my great grandma and my uncle bobby, and a picture of my mom in middle school
- mugs my old roommate picked up for me on his trips to Germany
- a motorcycle shaped bottle of men's aftershave from the 60s (found this in my parents' basement)
- a little black cat figurine (for Indy) and a pink unicorn from my TGC days (for me)
- honey jar from my sister
- tin heart and arrow shaped measuring cups my mom found at good will
- a couple little books
- day of the dead tiles
On your way out of the kitchen you can see the "Studs & Spurs" calendar and my small plate collection.
Annnnd that's what I eat these days. Almost all natural ;)
My living room area is a work in progress...I am open to any ideas y'all have about what to do with it.
That wall is a collage of all the extra pictures I had in my house. The turkey painting and the photo of red berries came from my great-granddad. The painting in the center was bought for me in Brunswick by my mom. The first practice efforts I made at sewing, a photo I developed myself in my high school photography class, and some framed Audubon drawings are up there too. Buttt my favorite thing up there is this:
My mom made that for me one Christmas. It's a hand sewed copy of a print my Mamaw Wilson made. It's in Mamaw's handwriting and I really love it :) It makes this place really feel like home.
Do we like that photo wall? I am not 100% sold on it yet.
To the right of the photo wall is my balcony. It is still a major work in progress but I've got big ideas :)
These items are also in the living area :)
My hutch and table and chairs are also over here. I need to paint these items but I can't decide what to paint them. My instinct for the table and chairs is black. And I want to paint the hutch a sea green...but I'm not sure. Help!
Onto the bedroom...
Ok first off - I have a huge round mirror that is going to be amazing in a real house one day. For now...I have no where to put it! So I've made a headboard out of it. I know that seems scandalous so it might change.
Yep - bird print blanket and bird prints on the wall. I'm a bird lover :) My earliest memories are of watching the birds at my great grandma's house.
And there I am :) Hi! The mirror and dresser in this picture desperately need painted. I am thinking white or a really light cream.
So that's it so far! The apartment has a really big closet and, yes, a bathroom as well but I still have work to do on those. This home has been a real blessing in my life. It's a refuge when I need a refuge and a space to entertain when I want to do that :)
The best part is - it's in AUSTIN! I love this town. I don't think I've been this happy in a long time :)
Love y'all,
B
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I love your apartment and what you have done with the space. My recommendation on the furniture, all of it, is to paint it in a good black paint and then paint the details in different colors for the different areas they are in. Maybe sea green/aqua for the bedroom and orange/gold in the library and coral in the dining room. I know of a great black paint that includes the primer.
ReplyDeletethanks mom :)
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