MY STUDIO APARTMENT:: The Living Room
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It's time for a progress report. You've seen my bedroom, you've seen my dining room, and without further ado and procrastination, here's my living room! I use the term "room" lightly because I live in a studio, so in truth it's all really the same room. As you can see, my bed is within arm's length of my sofa, which is within reach of my dining table. I moved into this space with much apprehension, but if you can survive a dorm room, you can survive a studio. Right?
I've actually enjoyed living in a studio WAY more than I thought I would. For one thing, it's a million times easier to keep it clean, which is of the necessity because if I leave a shirt on the floor there goes 50% of my floor space. Secondly, it's only a billion times easier to decorate. Move in a bed and a sofa, hang a couple paintings, and the apartment was practically done. I have made a bit of progress since the initial move. I added a dividing bookshelf (from Ikea, natch) and arranged and rearranged all of the items on it 19 times.
I've also since hung my skateboards. This in itself is a MAJOR feat, as I've owned them for over a year and a half and had never managed to hang them. You'd think there would be an abundance of tutorials on how to hang a skateboard on a wall, surely a million teenage boys before me faced the same conundrum, but I couldn't find any. Not even one. So I MacGyvered it with some fishing line (no joke, fishing line).
I also added a coffee table, or two rather. I wish I could say that buying two small coffee tables was an act of brilliance, that I realized I would need them to be light and portable so that I could move them to the side every time I did a Gillian Michaels workout DVD (don't judge), or each time I needed to pull the sofa bed out for guests (which is often now that it's summer). But alas, none of that occurred to me. I simply bought them cause they were cute. And marble.
So that's where it stands today! I have plans to take proper photos with something better than an ipad sometime soon, but I did a post on Emily Henderson's living room on CamilleStyles today, and I wanted to show her how much I admire her and everything she touches in the off chance that she somehow ended up here today. Emily Henderson, if you're reading this, I LOVE YOU AND EVERYTHING BLUE VELVET.
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Can a couch be your spirit animal? If so, Henri's mine. xoxo Cristina
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