Home Sweet Home

Daytime view from our apartment.

Searching for an apartment is not very fun. It's also not very easy when you have a dog. It's especially difficult when your wonderful puppy happens to be a mixed breed, part of which is on the restricted list. Can you believe that?! We went at least three different places that wouldn't allow us to have Rally there because he is part German Shepherd. That was really annoying. Every place we went we had to ask if they allowed dogs. If they said yes, then we had to ask if there was a weight limit. If Rally fit into the weight limit we had to ask if there was a breed restriction. Sure enough, a good chunk of the places would not let our sweet pup in. Oh well, their loss, not ours. We finally found an apartment that seemed to fit all of our criteria. They were dog friendly and had some sort of pet friendly deck, within walking distance to Glenn's work, close to public transit, had a parking garage, and within walking distance to Downtown. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me welcome you to the Archstone Belltown Apartment #1413.
I really like our purple door. The colors alternate on different floors. Even number floors have purple doors and the odd numbered floors have a mustard yellow door. I'm glad we are on an even floor.
First, is our nice little kitchen. When you first walk in the door, you step right into the kitchen. I feel like aside from the smaller amount of storage, this is an improvement from Phoenix. Our old galley kitchen made it really difficult for both of us to be in there at the same time. Not that I cook or anything, I just like to be able to help every now and then :o)
Off to the side is a nice little pantry. It's really nice to have a separate place to put food and other stuff, like my baking pan that's too big to fit anywhere else!
This little doorway is to the bathroom, obviously. It's kind of a bummer not having two bathrooms, but oh well.
The bathroom is nice and updated, and the medicine cabinet has enough room for all of our stuff.
After our target trip I decorated a little bit. I decided the color scheme in here would be bright green and fuschia. It looks good, and not too girly.
Despite the place being quite small, we have an AWESOME walk-in closet. At first I thought it was wasted space and would have been better distributed in the living area, but I actually love it. It's really nice to have so much room to store stuff without it having to be in the living area. You can't see it in the picture, but there is actually room on either side in the back to put shelving or drawers.
Finally, here is our living area. It's not huge, but it is doable. I actually think it will be a lot of fun trying to maximize the space and being creative with furniture and what not. I'm still waiting for my fancy new flat screen Sony TV, but that will have to wait until a few paychecks down the road :o)
So far, we are really liking the place and are quite happy here. The location is fantastic and the view is really nice. Best of all, it's wonderful to have a place to call home that isn't a ghetto hooker hotel! (Motel 6 in Tukwila)