No More Patio Furniture!!!

Oh happy mother-lovin day people! Jordan and I got our household goods shipment on Wednesday. Which means that I have spent the last 3 days cleaning, organizing, donating and throwing away 7-8 bags of crap!

For those of you that don't know, back on Whidbey Island, Jordan and I lived in a 3 bedroom, 2 living rooms, 2 car garage house....do you have any idea how much crap you can put in a house like that? Not to mention that I used one entire closet for myself, Jordan used 2 (one for uniforms and one for regular clothes), another full closet strictly for jackets, and a big and deep linen closet.....

Now we live in a fairly standard 2 bedroom apartment with very little storage space. It was insane to pack 2 rooms full of stuff into one. The dude room/guest + office are all one room now. Haha.

While spending the week doing all this sorting, I came to realize a few things.

1. If you live in the PNW, you will NEVER realize how many jackets and sweatshirts you own until you move into a place half the size of the last place you lived. Holy mother of jakets batman! I had to fill two bins to put into storage cause they won't fit in our closets!
2. Nick knacks. You know all those super small things you collect over the years? Think junk drawers, office supplies, and random decor items. Whoa. Who needs all that?! It's like, where was all this shit when I was looking for it 6 months ago? Haha.
3. You learn who your "true" friends are. For example, our super good friends, the Blanchards. There kids clearly did not want us to leave. I found their son's sock and two water bottles, Jen's sweatshirt (which she says isn't hers so I'm convinced she has dementia), remnants of dart battle her husband and daughter had like 2 years ago, and her husbands voice on this megaphone we have. Insane!

I think those are the biggest things....

Wanna see pics?

This is a view from the front door....

...and from the doorway in the hall....

...if I turn to my right, we will enter the dining room...

In our old house, one of our living rooms was the bar/game room. So we are trying to do a pub style dining room but I'm TERRIBLE at decorating!!! Plus, we need to get special brackets for the shelves we have to hang Jordan's glasses. But this will do for now!

...straight ahead is the kitchen...

...as I head back to the leaving room, I turn left, then right and BOOM...the office/guest/dude room...

Jordan still has to decorate this how he wants it, so a lot of stuff is on the floor...

...next up...the bedroom...

For the first time in 3 years, we have a decorated bedroom!! Clearly we don't have much to work with but that's ok...

...now if I turn to my right, we get a view of the hallway...

...as you can see, on my right I have my little softball coaching tribute wall...

Now I would show you the bathroom but there is honestly NOTHING in there. The walls in the bathroom are all tile and the floor is exactly what you would see in a dorm room. The shower head is detachable too. The whole point is to literally hose down the bathroom when cleaning it. There's a drain right in front of the toilet, hahaha.

Alright, I need your help!!! If you revisit the pictures of the bedroom and the living room, you can see it is pretty bare. Not that I need more crap but I would like this place to be decorated better. If you have any ideas please share!!!!

I plan on getting curtains for the house, blackout ones for the bedroom...and I want to get a more Japanese influence here. That would be fun! My friend and I thought we would get slippers for guests because these hardwood floors can be a pain to keep clean.

Anyways, that is our place!!!

Sayonara!!!