...I've been waiting for it's return.
The Perfect Apartment turned out to be high-maintenance, in more ways than one. Tom and I continue to discover at least two new burning hoops to jump through every day, but we think we're almost there. Then again, we thought that last week. As a refresher, here are some pictures of the Perfect Apartment:
The square footage is apparently 850, but as you can see from Tom's mock-up of the floor plan, the living spaces amounted to about 440 sq ft:
The biggest hurdle has been figuring out a work space for Tom, he of the humongous desktop PC land. Where to fit such a workstation? The dining room is the most obvious choice, but I'm insistent on the principle of balance, and would like to create one long desk to sit under the wall in the dining room. Something like this:
Luckily, CB2 has an option in their Trig desk, and I think 2 side by side would work nicely. Plus, the glass would make them recede into the wall, and I might have room for a sewing machine.
There is one tiny closet in the bedroom, and I am a lady with a fair number of (narrow-width) shoes. So I thought I would use one of those Ikea Sandnes shoe cabinets as a "landing strip" in the bend in the hallway, kind of what was done here:
To make the chest a little less ugly, I thought I would hack it like so:
Then I would decorate it with our DIY trays, a candle, and crown it with a sunburst mirror:
But I couldn't help but notice the beautiful curved headboard in the picture from Aubrey + Lindsey next to my proposed Ikea hack. It's the Colette bed from Crate and Barrel:
It would fit perfectly in my inspiration bedroom knock-off:
The bedroom is tiny in the Perfect Apartment - just shy of a 100 sq ft - so the furniture has to pop. All that can fit is the bed and one of our vintage dressers. Tom already has a headboard, but it's a dark brown and has been discontinued, meaning that recovering it would be a DIY project.
But I like the graceful lines of the Colette headboard (makes me think "that's what living in Connecticut would be like"), so if I had to recover Tom's, I might was well start from scratch. Thanks to decor*pad's Look 4 Less feature, and Copy Cat Chic, I found two cheaper options. But Tom and I only want the headboard. Even better, I found a DIY version on Style Nest. So, I got to thinking about how the Blog Sidekick has a garden (yes, a garden in NYC and she's not even 30!), and I started scheming about how I could use said garden to hack my Ikea shoe cabinet and make a DIY nail head upholstered bed frame.
But how would I get said headboard from the Blog Sidekick's garden to the Perfect Apartment? And wait, don't I live in Upstate New York (at least for the next week and a half) where we have the Orange, the Blue, fabric stores, and jigsaws a plenty? After all, you can get a decent jigsaw for $30, and who knows when I might need a jigsaw in the future? Needless to say, supplies would be so much easier to get up here, and I'm renting a U-Haul for my move to NYC next Sunday. Transportation dilemma solved.
Tom is thinking about coming up this weekend and staying through graduation, meaning that our "permanent sleepover" (aka traditional marriage) might begin a whopping 4 days earlier. Maybe I could put him to work constructing the headboard in between thesis paragraphs? Barring that, I bet I could find a few friends willing to help, and some even have husbands that might have power tools. Hey, Heather, is Aukai busy this weekend?
Sweet dreams.
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The garden is now clean...ish. Come over!
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