Serious ugly

When we first moved into this apartment I was really happy. I liked the apartment itself, but also the view form my craft room and bedroom windows was very nice. There where some tall trees and even a small nest on one of them. Many different kinds of birds would come very close to my window. In spring these trees were very busy :) It was nice, and seeing all this activity made me happy.

This is how my view used to look like.
Can you spot the little nest on the left side picture?

But unfortunately all of this changed. In October or November we learnt that a huge apartment building was going to be build. Since there was a tall brick wall and some abandoned buildings between us and the land where the building was going to be, we thought that the construction site would only reach the wall. Well, we were wrong!

A few days ago they knock down the wall, as well as the abandoned buildings. Every day I would look outside my window and say "Not the trees, just leave the trees". Yesterday they took down the trees too! It was awful. I could't stand the sound of the trees being so violently breaking.  

Here is how my view looks like since yesterday...

I really don't understand what happend! If you take a look at the maquette they hang before the constructions began, you'll see all "green" and "pretty". So why couldn't they just integrate those trees into the design? There weren't that many of them anyway! The maquette actually call the project "Green Houses" showing "green" on the terraces and balconies of this building.

For me that's just a parody and a deceit...   

Organizing my fabric stash

The Easter holiday is over and everything is back to normal. It was nice having Mr. G around for 4 whole days. Many things got done over the last few days and the new apartment is turning slowly slowly to a home. On the furniture side 2 closets, 2 bedside tables, a tv-thing and a shelf unit for the craft room were assembled. I won't lie I did not do much of the assembling. Three boxes are still unopened but I can't make myself to open them up. I just can't stand any more boxes, so for the moment I pretend not to see them.

I did cleaned the craft room. Everything is tight up. The question was where would I put my fabrics. I was considering getting a closet but I couldn't find something that I really liked and of course in the budget I had. So after searching and measuring, more searching and more measuring I decided to go with a shelf unit from IKEA.

GORM

It has just the right height and depth for my purpose. I wanted it to fit under the stairs of the build in bed. It's a kind of a blind spot which can't be easily used for something else. Fitting the unit there leaves me all the space to move. It even creates a hidden storage space behind it.

I didn't like the unit as it was though, so I transformed it a little. It's a half DIY fabric closet. A few months ago I bought a couple of curtains from a second hand store. They are IKEA and never been used. They were brand new, with the tags still attached and all. At that time I wasn't sure what would I make with them, but I'm glad I got them because they gave me the whole idea on how to solve my problem.

Open curtains

Closed curtains

Aren't they cute? They were the right length too, just ready to be hanged. I'm very happy with the result. The best part is that all of this costed less than 30 Euro! yaaaay!!

Organizing the fabric itself was an entirely different thing. I had big plans for it. Sommer fabrics, winter fabrics, I wanted to measure everything, take notes so I'd know how much of everything there is. But after an hour just folding I left the plans go... Who am I kidding. I'm neither that motivated nor organized to do something like that. In the end I'm happy that everything is nicely folded and in such a way so I can see what I have in my stash. I do work better when everything is in place and out of my way, but that's it. So here it is.

I guess I won't be buying new fabrics for a while...
   

The view from my window

I'm back!! Finally!! With everything that was going on the past few weeks I didn't even noticed that it's spring already!! The other day I went outside dressed as if I was going to the North Pole and the heat just heat me!! I love it!! We've been having a really great weather for the last 5 days! I hope it stays that way.

It's almost a month since we moved to our new apartment. At the beginning we didn't have any forniture, except for the bed and the sofa :) Things were all over the place and I needed to do something about it. So I created a cupboard out of the sofa boxes, 2 bedside tables, out of the boxes that the lamps came in and a little bin for the bathroom. It helped a little.

DIY closet :)

But only for a little while, because not later than that, our stuff arrived and it was chaos all over again. Wherever you looked there were boxes. I think I even had a dream about them once. Have I mentioned how much I don't like moving??? We have tried to do our best to get them out of the way as soon as we could. But still many boxes are unpacked and will stay that way for a little bit longer, basically  because we don't have the space to put all of these things in. We still have to get a real closet. All of our clothes are in the boxes and this can be really frustrating some times.

Same thing goes for my craft room. All of my supplies are packed, but I'm working on it. I have my computer set up, the sewing machine is out of the box. I will need to oil it though before I can start sewing again. That is if I'll ever find the oil bottle in this mess. I really love my little studio though. I never had one before and I'm really grateful I can have it. Look at the view from my window.

You see all that trees?? I can wait to see them all green. It's so quiet out there. Can you spot the bird's nest just outside my window? It's empty right now, but I hope it won't stay that way for long. I love spring.

p.s. I think we have a ghost in our building. I keep on hearing noises outside our door (we live on the last floor...). Old wooden floors can be loud. But when I look through the peep hole, no one is there. Mystery....  :)

    

The apartment!!

It maybe took us 3 long months, but we finally did it! We found an apartment! yaay!! Signed our contracts last week and we'll be moving there on March 1st.

This is how the apartment looks 

Welcome :)

Kitchen + living room

Bedroom

 

The last 2 photos are my favorite!! Yes, that's where my mini studio is going to be. It's a small room but I'll make it work. There is even a build in bed so my studio will have a double role :) It's going to be the guest bedroom too. 

I just realize that I din't take any photos of the bathroom :) I'll do it on my next visit to the house. I'm very exited about it. I can't wait to start decorating it. It will be a slow process though :)

The apartment is situated on the back side. It's a garden house, which makes it very quiet. The area is nice too. We have a big park close to us, the metro station and a really nice Italian Restaurant just across the street from us. We've already tried it and it's a keeper :)

I think Mr.G and I will be happy there.