My Apartment

Posted on 04.05.04. Tagged with , , All

My ApartmentI am lazy. I like easy, I like convenient, I like inexpensive. This is why I have lived on campus in a dorm for the first 3 years of my college life. No bills to worry about, no buses to catch. Everything is taken care of. It's great. Well except for the no A/C part (my dorm is the oldest on campus), the need to wear shower sandals, the dirty kitchen, living across from clubs that blast music at 2am, the rules about girls and alcohol (although who's listens about those?), and the 3 flights up to my room. I'm not bitter at all, I loved living on campus, but I decided for next year, my senior year of college, it was time to move off campus and get an apartment. What an apartment I got!

I'm living with 3 of my friends in one of their brand new 4 bedroom places. We all get our own bathrooms and showers too! I'm way psyched. It's $320 a month plus utilities.

Maybe because I've never had complete freedom over furniture and decorating but I'm pretty excited to design my perfect sleeping/relaxing/web-surfing haven in my bed room. I think lights like these along my wall would be so cool, and I bet I could figure out a cheap way to do it. I also intend to get some Blik for my walls. I dont konw which ones yet, but I like the doves or maybe some custom prose on my wall. I also want my bed as low to the ground as possible (initially I wanted it on the floor but my stepmom said that would be uncomfortable or something). I also want a desk thats like 6 feet long so I can spread stuff out and work. I want I want I want. I have this great vision. Blue lights, comfy bed, 2 monitors, and a beautiful girl. I have the blue lights, and I'm working on the rest of the list.

I don't move in till July 28th, yes, this is a bit premature but living in a dorm for 3 years will make you crazy like that.

11 Comments

BLADE
01:21 AM on 04.05.04

Shower sandals? You share a shower? Like, at the same time as other people?? Ew-www! Haha.

-BLADE

Zippy
02:04 AM on 04.05.04

Hey Tay,

The apartment looks awesome man! What a great way to wrap up your college life! With all that space, you guys better have some hot parties...otherwise all the rest of us are going to think you're pussies! :)

Darice
09:00 AM on 04.05.04

Same thing here! After 3 and a half years of sharing a house
with 4 people, shower slippers, dirty kitchen, etc. I'm moving
to my own appartment on July 1. I already went to Ikea to
see how I can design a work corner for my PC and iBook, plus extra space for keeping papers and stuff. I'm very excited about it.

MaThIbUs
11:02 AM on 04.05.04

:o

1,667 sq. ft.! That's f_ckin' big man! Cool lights btw

stacy
01:43 PM on 04.05.04

Yeah, I need to find a place soon. ::sigh:: I hate aparment shopping. grrr.

Holly
08:08 PM on 04.05.04

I am very happy for you and getting this apartment. Cheap way to do something? Go to Wal-Mart! :) That's my answer to everything, though; I love that place. They also have the cheapest fabric in the world. hah.

Chirag
08:37 PM on 04.05.04

"Like everyone else, you have become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct. If you see something like clever coffee table in the shape of a yin and yang, you have to have it. Like the Johanneshov armchair in the Strinne green stripe pattern. Or the Rislampa wire lamps of environmentally-friendly unbleached paper. Even the Vild hall clock of galvanized steel, resting on the Klipsk shelving unit. You flip through catalogs and wonder, "What kind of dining set defines me as a person?" You used to read pornography. Now it is the Horchow Collection. You have it all. Even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of wherever."

/Fight Club

Hope a.k.a. Lizzy
08:54 AM on 04.07.04

Great design ideas! The prose on the wall is neat..

Hope a.k.a. Lizzy
08:57 AM on 04.07.04

Plus, 320 a month is GREAT for that kind of an apartment! I thought we had good prices here in Ohio, but most [smaller] apartments cost 400+ dollars a month..that 's almost my whole month's income!

Taylor
07:20 PM on 04.07.04

Yeah I'm pretty happy about the price. And no Blade, we dont take showers together, but you wouldn't want to step barefoot into the shower that the other hoodlums in my hall use.

Don't worry I'll take lots of pics come August when everythings nice n purdy.

Croila
07:55 AM on 04.13.04

Hello! Just stumbled upon your site today. I love the design, particularly the banner across the top - very unusual.

Hate the lighting though - " I think lights like these along my wall would be so cool" - I beg to disagree!

Oh! Just spotted your live preview function for the comments. Now that IS impressive!

;-)

Regards
Croila