Adulting Our Living Room

It has been longer that I care to admit since I have lived in one location for longer than two years.  With breakups and new relationships and new jobs and marriage, everything has been up in the air for years.  I think I subconsciously don't worry about putting the effort into fully making an apartment a home since it is just a waypoint to the next place.

We just signed our lease renewal for another 15 months and my husband said he would even be interested in another year after that.  So it seemed time to start settling in to our current place.  It's only been 10 months!

This was our living room.

An absolute disaster area.  This picture doesn't even do it justice.  Cords everywhere, not enough space for anything.  Game systems just shoved into places, a rickety DVD rack that I picked up on freecycle while I was still in college.  Not an adult apartment at all!

Saturday night, we spent hours at IKEA trying to find a fix for this "problem" we had.  We ended up with "Besta" I believe it's called, since it was completely customizable.

After many many many hours and only a few disagreements, we ended up with this.

I feel so much better just looking at the picture.  Everything has a place now and it's wonderful!

Adulting for the win!