Say goodbye to the old apartment...

We've been living in our new house for a few weeks now, but we hadn't really dealt with our apartment yet. We just kinda got all the essentials out and tried to forget about it. But this last weekend we had to get in there and clean the place up. My main task for the day was the kitchen, and I'm honestly not sure that it was ever that clean in the time we lived there.

Sparkling clean.

You know, our apartment really was a great place for us (for a short time). There are a lot of things I will really miss about the place. The pretty hardware and light fixtures (unlike our brass EVERYTHING), the loft space (it was nice to have Matt really close whenever he wanted to get on the computer), the pretty white kitchen cabinets (instead of our current "meh" oak), the awesome red wall in the dining room, and our cool open stairs (though I think the kitties will miss those more than me... they really loved laying on them and watching what was going on below).

But there are a few things I won't miss. Like the HORRIBLE wobbly stairs that I fell down, and the whole parking situation (carrying groceries across a parking lot and up 2 flights of stairs is not fun).

Plus, there's all the not-fun stuff that comes with apartment living... like really close neighbors. Smoking, partying neighbors with barking dogs.

But overall, this place was good to us. We had many fun times there. Holidays, anniversaries, parties, and lots of time just hanging out with the cats. This is the first place we lived as a married couple; we moved days before the wedding and came home from the honeymoon to this new apartment. It was our first "home."


I know it's silly, but I get pretty sappy about things like this. So I was very sad to close the door on this place.

Our last look at our old home...

But on to bigger and better things.