project updates.

so the projects are going well. well two of them anyways. after my last post about them i decided to make a daily schedule to keep me on track. yes i am serious about getting them done. the bookcase is already finished, both coats. you can see brush strokes but i think it looks great. today after work i came home and painted the second coat on the dresser. i also started to paint the wire shelves but it did not take long to run out of paint (i only had one can for eigthy pieces...not enough!) so i'm going to have to buy more before i can finish. i had hoped to work on cleaning the rest of the apartment since the painting really doesn't take that long but i'm not feeling well. tomorrow before church i plan to paint the black detail on the dresser. i also need to make a walmart run to buy more spray paint. the shelves are going to take way longer than i thought. oh well. at least the other two projects are going well.

making an apartment a home.

right now i'm quite caught up in cleaning, organizing and decorating. it was driving me absolutely crazy that there was still a room that had yet to be unpacked. it was still a pile of boxes. and it was also bugging me that this apartment doesn't feel like a home. it still felt very temporary.
so far i have swapped a couple of dressers around: one moved from the bedroom to the office and the other moved from the office to the bedroom (yes i moved them by myself). i bought new bedding and finally put curtains up in the bedroom. i bought and put together a bookcase that stands almost six feet tall (hubby doesn't know about that one yet lol).
right now i'm in the process of painting an old bookcase and dresser. both are rather beat up and in need of a make over. the office has taken on a black color scheme (the desk, filing cabinet, and the new bookcase are all black) so i'm painting the smaller bookcase black and i'm painting the dresser a light gray. the dresser has a little bit of engraved detail work that i plan to paint black and i have purchased black hardware. plus i have these wire shelf things that are currently hot pink and bright orange that i plan to paint gray but i'm doing the dresser and bookcase first.
i'm quite excited but a little overwhelmed. i've never really taken on projects like this by myself. i used to help my sister with projects. she went through a lamp making phase that i helped with. i've also helped her paint a few rooms. so i'm not completely inexperience in crafty projects but i've almost always followed her creative vision and was just there to help. this is one of the first times that i'm responsible for a project from start to finish. it is my creative vision and it is for my home. its a very strange but good feeling. i now wish i had taken before pictures but rest assured that there will be after pictures.
then when all the projects are finished (the bookcase, dresser, and wire shelf system) i get to unpack all the remaining boxes. right now the pile of boxes has taken over my dining room since the room they belong in is where almost all the painting is taking place (i'm spray painting the wire shelves so that will be done on the patio). i decided to paint the furniture first so that it would look exactly the way i want it before i fill it with stuff. i didn't want everything to be set up and organized and then have to move it all to paint the furniture. i think the stuff is easier to move around still in boxes lol.
now i just have to find the time to do all of this stuff. i'm hoping that i will get everything accomplished before the end of the month. thats my goal at least. i want to give myself a month of rest (in theory lol) before school starts back. i just wish school didn't start back on my 20th birthday. oh well. hope everyone has had a wonderful week. i need to be sleeping...5am will come soon.

my dining room.

so after living in the apartment for a little over five months, i finally hung something up on the wall. honestly, i really haven't done any decorating. eventually my sissy will come over and i'm sure she'll have input (especially since her degree is in interior design). but its nice to not have completely bare walls anymore.
here are pictures of my dining room...

this centerpiece i got at hubby's mobilization
and the candle was a christmas gift from brady.

this is the beautiful rug hubby brought home from iraq.

hope you enjoyed the glimpse into my apartment and i hope every one is having a wonderful day. i'm spending my day with a precious little angel.