Making a home

I moved out here with very few personal belongings, other than clothes. Slowly, and especially after bringing my car out here, I've been able to add some more Susan-like touches to my apartment. This is mostly for my family's sake, but I also thought some of you might be interested to see my fairly limited, but intricately-planned purchases in the decor department.

I purchased a new bed and an awesome new couch when I arrived, along with a TV stand that the Superintendent of my building's son put together for me! I also picked up this cute blue slip covered chair and ottoman from a person moving out of my building. They are in my living room right now, but this will change when I save up some more money and decide what kind of a chair I want in there. It works for the time being.

The coffee table was a pretty key investment as I really had no place to eat my supper or to stack my magazines and remote control!

As you can see below, the living room at least now has a collection of furniture, rather than a big couch sitting in the middle of a completely empty room!



My personal favourite is my pretty bedroom, which while a work in progress is pretty darn gorgeous. I got a dresser from one of furnished suites in my building that was being renovated. And no, that's not actually an end table, but a huge tupperware box covered with a white sheet. It takes timet o get these things in order!

The goal for my next phase of decorating is to get bookshelves and lots of them, as well as a dining room table and chairs, along with something that people can sleep on if I ever get any visitors in my spare room.

There are other areas of my apartment, but this gives you a bit of a feeling of how the key rooms look right now. And believe me when I say things look 10X better than when I moved in, so by Christmas I'm hoping for another vast improvement.