New Apartment

I am deep cleaning our new apartment! (Which you can see more pictures of by going here). My weekends have been strange (Tuesday/Wednesday), so I spent yesterday and today scouring the place. I LOVE it. It is really vintage and cute. But the person who lived there before us must have been pretty messy. Yesterday I took apart the whole stove and found tons of food underneath, so I had to scrape that all out and de-grease all of the parts to get the burners to work properly. Even now, only two of them light without being lit with a match. Today I've been scrubbing everything with ammonia to make sure it's actually clean. Still need to do the floors.

I REALLY disliked the cupboards:

I found a blog post online talking about how to use fabric as a temporary solution for ugly cupboards and ran with it. I'll be scotch guarding them as soon as I get the chance, to help keep the fabric clean. A lot of people seemed to think this was a really gross thing to do in a kitchen, but the people who have actually done it say that if you are mindful of what you are doing, it actually doesn't get all greasy and stained. We'll see :) If it doesn't work out, I'll just buckle down and ask for permission to paint them.

This is what they are looking like as of now:

Not so bad! I would like to add knobs to them. The ones that are still ugly wood will be covered with cream fabric and then will have elastic strapped across them so they can be used as sort of bulletin boards. That's the plan, anyway.

I'm not a terribly crafty person and I've never made a real effort to interior decorate before, so I am overwhelmingly proud of Andrew and I for this. I'm really excited to see it when it's all done.