Shopping...

The reason I keep coming across anime stuff is that I'm cleaning up the dining/library area, which has served as a junk catchall for the past year, because over the next couple of weeks I'm moving my studio area into there. I did the IKEA thing today - there's been a store open in Frisco, about 45 minutes away, for 6 months now and I kept intending to go. Only got 2 things because I realized quickly that of the $300 I budgeted for this, I was going to ahve to have a good deal of that for the delivery, because even if they fit in my car there was no way I was going to be able to get them out on my own. :)

So I got this desk and this chest of drawers to start off the studio area. I was originally going to buy at least one more table and move the bookshelves over to the area where my work area is currently, but realized that if I didn't I could leave the bookshelves there and buy more bookshelves for the current work space and be a lot happier. And Target has some cheap 5-shelf bookshelves for sale, so I think I may be over there tomorrow.

This is a coffee table I've got my eye on - I like the storage, plus the ability to extend it if necessary. In black-brown, of course, not that birchy color.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with my current desk, which looks sort of like a Stealth bomber. IKEA wanted $60 to take it away, and ... I don't THINK so!

Let's all play...

Rearrange telophase's Apartment!


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I think that's it. Feel free to ask questions, and I wanna see what you come up with. XD



 

Possible room

I've been monkeying around with room arrangement all day off and on, and this is the best one I've come up with so far.

( Floorplan )

 

For the first time...

...since I've moved in, the kitchen is clean, neat, and utterly put away! OK, well, I haven't swept or mopped the floor yet, and I've got a bag of stuff that includes some kitchen stuff thanks to a gift card for Bed Bath & Beyond from Mom* that's sitting on the living room foor and needs to be emptied, but for now ... man, it's beautiful!

Every single other room in the apartment is utterly trashed, since I do large reorganization projects by throwing everything in the middle of the floor and cleaning from there, but it's certianly a start.


* We are both addicted to buying kitchen and other type of stuff like this. It's like office and organization supplies or the perfect hair-care product: if you just manage to get the right thing, your life will come together, you'll be more popular, taller, and will be able to speak French. It's just a quirk. :D