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MY APARTMENT, LET ME SHOW YOU IT
Went by the apartment complex today and put down the deposit. They had three apartments they were willing to hold 'til June, and I picked one at the far end of the complex (less traffic), that was a corner unit (fewer neighbors). And it appears to have a door that reads EXIT right next to it, instead of another apartment, so I may actually have no neighbors on either side. And before you say "But what about traffic up and down those stairs?" - there is no parking on the side of the building the stairs go to, only entrances to garages. There shouldn't be any regular traffic there.
Being a corner unit, there are windows on two sides of my living room, and I have an uninspiring view of a bunch of leafless trees and a warehouse some distance away. In the spring and summer, however, the warehouse should be hidden from view.
I took a few photos, and a few measurements, and spent some time attempting to make the floorplan make sense according to the few measurements I took. I was not especially successful, but the general idea is there, and it's close enough to play Let's Design![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telophase's Apartment!
Kitchen. The flash makes it look lighter than it really is. XD The two cabinets on the left are the pantry.
And there's a place to put your trash can built in!
Living room. You see the French doors. The one on the left does not open.
The two windows on the left living room wall.
Taken while standing in the kitchen - this is the dining area that will become my studio area. (If I call it my office, everyone assumes I have one tiny desk. I THINK NOT.)
The window wall of the bedroom. Note the decidedly odd window placement.
Bathroom. The GINORMOUS tub is off to the right.
The closet, and the strange little niche in it. That's where the electric cat box is going to go, as there's an outlet in there. There's another couple of shelves and hanging bars to the right.
And now my redone floorplan that's somewhere in the vicinity of scale. I'm not sure on the placement of the bedroom door, but I KNOW that measurement is 60". Hrm.
As you can tell from all the furniture and the rules, it's time to play Let's Designtelophase's Apartment! You can download a zipped Photoshop file with each piece of furniture on its own layer by clicking here.
Yes there is WAY too much furniture for this apartment. I am RUTHLESSLY downsizing! And it REALLY doesn't help that the older I get, the more it becomes apparent that my personal aesthetic, despite my distressing packrat tendencies, is CLEAN ASIAN-INSPIRED MODERN. My ideal bedroom? Contains my bed, and nothing else. My ideal living room? Contains two loveseats facing each other across a hewn-stone or hewn-wood coffee table and nothing else. Obviously, I am not going to quite achieve that here.
But since I have amazing loads of storage space, feel free to toss everything into storage! Get rid of pieces of furniture and suggest new ones! (Link to them, if you suggest them.) Do whatever! Have fun with it!
ETA: Here's a small zip file with two more pieces of furniture: a scanner cart and a printer cart. I have these 2 TV carts that I've been using to hold art paper and I just realized that the printer and the scanner will fit on them. AND that one of them will fit under the desk while I'm at the desk (I've got it under there now) with either the printer or the scanner on top of it, so it can be out of the way when it's not being used. The shelf of the cart can be used to hold my endless supply of large-format printer paper.
Being a corner unit, there are windows on two sides of my living room, and I have an uninspiring view of a bunch of leafless trees and a warehouse some distance away. In the spring and summer, however, the warehouse should be hidden from view.
I took a few photos, and a few measurements, and spent some time attempting to make the floorplan make sense according to the few measurements I took. I was not especially successful, but the general idea is there, and it's close enough to play Let's Design
telophase's Apartment!Kitchen. The flash makes it look lighter than it really is. XD The two cabinets on the left are the pantry.
And there's a place to put your trash can built in!
Living room. You see the French doors. The one on the left does not open.
The two windows on the left living room wall.
Taken while standing in the kitchen - this is the dining area that will become my studio area. (If I call it my office, everyone assumes I have one tiny desk. I THINK NOT.)
The window wall of the bedroom. Note the decidedly odd window placement.
Bathroom. The GINORMOUS tub is off to the right.
The closet, and the strange little niche in it. That's where the electric cat box is going to go, as there's an outlet in there. There's another couple of shelves and hanging bars to the right.
And now my redone floorplan that's somewhere in the vicinity of scale. I'm not sure on the placement of the bedroom door, but I KNOW that measurement is 60". Hrm.
As you can tell from all the furniture and the rules, it's time to play Let's Design
telophase's Apartment! You can download a zipped Photoshop file with each piece of furniture on its own layer by clicking here.Yes there is WAY too much furniture for this apartment. I am RUTHLESSLY downsizing! And it REALLY doesn't help that the older I get, the more it becomes apparent that my personal aesthetic, despite my distressing packrat tendencies, is CLEAN ASIAN-INSPIRED MODERN. My ideal bedroom? Contains my bed, and nothing else. My ideal living room? Contains two loveseats facing each other across a hewn-stone or hewn-wood coffee table and nothing else. Obviously, I am not going to quite achieve that here.
But since I have amazing loads of storage space, feel free to toss everything into storage! Get rid of pieces of furniture and suggest new ones! (Link to them, if you suggest them.) Do whatever! Have fun with it!
ETA: Here's a small zip file with two more pieces of furniture: a scanner cart and a printer cart. I have these 2 TV carts that I've been using to hold art paper and I just realized that the printer and the scanner will fit on them. AND that one of them will fit under the desk while I'm at the desk (I've got it under there now) with either the printer or the scanner on top of it, so it can be out of the way when it's not being used. The shelf of the cart can be used to hold my endless supply of large-format printer paper.