Apartments Past

Apartments Past.

There will be three installments where you can peak into my past, present & future with apartments.  I hope that from our first apartments to our future apartments I show improvements.  I'll let you make that call.

The first apartment complex we lived in was a one bedroom in a quiet suburb of where my school Sonoma State University was located.  I wanted to post floor plan layouts to show where we have come from these past four years, but apparently the place we lived in was much worse than we knew since there are no floor plans available online.  Shame. So instead of starting there, we'll graduate to Chicago, IL.

Chicago.  We traveled 2500 miles from the only home I knew to the midwest. It was my first experience seeing brick buildings - everywhere.  It was also one of my biggest challenges with apartment size.  This is the layout of our apartment's floor plan while we lived on campus at Moody Bible Institute.

Let's start from the entrance. There were two closets that got in the way of the door, but it was really the most storage we ever had.  Our apartment was flipped in that the bath and bedroom were on the left and the living/dining room with kitchen were on the right. The bedroom closet was super tiny, but the biggest plus was there was lots of cabinets and large full length floor to ceiling windows.  The picture is what is visible for the corner apartments, see the extra window for the living/dining room?  We did not have that, so we had another blank wall to work with. Here's some pictures of what we did...

When we first moved in we were still trying to figure out how to place furniture in the room. We had our dining table, futon (we walked it through the city) and the coffee table and coatrack pictured. 

This is the other side of the same room.  The tv Hutch was from my Parents.  We had our desk top and printer nearby. 

Here's the room further away.  Don't you just love the windows!! 

This was our bedroom, but you can see that we fit our dressers in here.  Again - big windows behind me. 

I just had to put a shot up of our view at night.  There are times I miss this view - the large building to the right is the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), the rows of lights are for LaSalle Street.  The trump tower was being built - in the far left where the scaffolding is visible.  

So these were our Moody Days.  I don't have many pictures of being inside because we tried to do as much outside as we could.  I mean who would want to stay inside when you have that view outside?!  I sure didn't.

Next time, I'll show you where we live now...at least until July 18th... and then I have some ideas for our future apartment.

Til then,
A.Reed.A