Saturday, May 24, 2008

Misc apartment stuff

My apartment is finally starting to feel a bit more like home and less like a place to store boxes. I'll be spending most of the weekend moving some things down to basement storage, and making final decisions on furniture and timing.

The office is the closest to being "finished". The big issue in the office is that I need to order (6) 72" tall shelf units. Four of them will be put back-to-back and placed perpendicular to the long walls on each side. The office is about 10' wide, so this will leave about a 42-48" gap between the ends of the shelves. The effect will be to isolate the office from the walk-through section along the back end of the room (between the two doors). The other two shelves will go along the back wall, making the walk through section lined by shelves. Unfortunately, because I want all (6) shelf units to match, I need to buy them all at the same time.

The other thing I may do in the office is window treatments of some sort. It's not a high-priority item, however. I'd rather have the (6) shelf units; because that will let me unpack a lot of boxes. Plus it will give me a place to put a floor fan to push hot air out of the office and into the kitchen (where the A/C unit is).

The kitchen still needs a bit of work. Probably a 30x36 table and a few chairs for the middle. I haven't quite decided what I want in there. I also need curtains in there, but it's also not a high priority. I need to put up a few coat hooks behind the door and assemble my 2nd utility shelf in the corner. Both will give me a bit more organization then I have now. I'm also considering putting some sort of fabric / shower liner around the taller shelf unit (48" x 24" x 72") to hide the storage boxes that are there. And, of course, to hide Lucille's litterbox which is at the bottom of that shelf.

The bathroom needs the new towel racks mounted on the back of the door. And I have a wardrobe hook to be mounted in the one corner behind the door. Other then that, the bathroom is in pretty good shape.

My hallway still needs a 52" tall shelf unit right inside the door. I'd like to buy it at the same time as the office shelving, so that it's of a similar style. The closet door sticks, so I need to sand down that corner (too much paint).

The bedroom still needs a pair of 4/5 drawer chests. My clothes are currently just sitting in piles on the floor, which isn't a long-term solution. I also need something across the opening of the closet, or I need to get doors mounted. There's also room for another piece of small furniture or a chair. The bedroom is pretty tiny, so there's not a lot of extra room in there for extra items.

Lastly, I've started tackling the living room. When I moved up here last fall, I had the movers dump any and all extra boxes into that room as a holding area. So I've spent 6 months slowly working through the boxes out there and have unpacked about half of them. Now I think I can start tackling moving things around in there and starting to make it useable.

I ordered the window treatments for the (4) windows in there last night. I'm going very conservative, with a plain tab-top navy blue curtains with plain white sheer panels underneath. I debated taking the curtains down to the floor, but with the baseboard heaters I chose to only go down to the window skirt. Besides, I plan on putting the two DVD storage chests under two of the windows, the TV below the third window, and the fourth window has the A/C unit with baseboard heat under it.

The walls are a cream with white trim and the floor is a medium wood flooring. Sort of a light walnut or oak color. So I plan on going with dark navy for the couch cover and the curtains. That should give me a nice solid set of base colors to work with in there without making it too dark.

Ah, which reminds me, I need to get the electrician back out to replace the one outlet along the south wall. While I don't absolutely need that outlet, I want it fixed in case I want extra power in there.

Eventually, I plan on having (2) queen-sized futon couches in there, but to start I'll just order one along with a footstool. Which will give me some place to sit company besides folding chairs. I'll probably move the TV and cable box back out to the living room until I can afford to buy a 2nd TV for the living room.

I have to decide what to do for lighting in the L/R. There are no ceiling fixtures out there. I know that one light will probably be a japanese style lamp that sits on a piece of furniture, but the other piece will probably be a floor lamp of some fashion.

So I need to go shopping for the lamps and the one couch at some point this weekend. Because that's the absolute minimum needed to get the L/R in somewhat functional shape.

Labels: 2008, Apartment

posted by Wuphon's at 12:14 PM