Walking out of your house for the last time is a bizarre feeling. I guess I just like to think I might be back there one day. After all, we still own the little thing. I took a few pictures right before we rolled my Versa onto the trailer attached to the Budget truck and drove away to begin what turned into a 48 hour trek to Fort Lauderdale (more on that soon).
This is the the last picture I took before I locked up the house for the last time…
Oh
suspended desk, how I am going to miss you. And shelves, I need
shelves. I hope y’all are being loved by the new tenant
We bought the condo back in October of 2008, but the ol’ blog did not begin until February of 2010 (holy. cow. 2 years this month). As I looked through the pictures I realized y’all had never seen some of the little details we did early on… like putting in a glass shower door.
I don’t know if it is just me, but I am not a fan of shower curtains. I am super-missing my glass shower door in Florida. We bought the door at Home Depot for @ $250 bucks. Andy installed it in a few hours. The hardest part was drilling through the tile. In my opinion, a great investment and a not too complicated DIY project! Andy could give you details if you’re curious… but we have no detailed process pictures for this project!
I miss those
shelves over the toilet too.
Sunny (the name of our Fort Lauderdale apartment) has nothing over the toilets in both bathrooms. Our new bathrooms don’t even have towels racks.
As much as I disliked the placement of this window, I really liked the paint chip walls, and my pretty, giant crepe myrtle tree right outside the window. You can see her wintery, bare branches through the blinds.
These hooks in my closet were a life savor. I didn’t take those with me either. My sweater collection lived on those hooks. I love a good cardigan. At the moment my sweaters live in a heap on the floor in the bedroom. Geez, I’m being kind of pathetic today, huh
MP room, you made me happy. Although, your walls turned out a little too bright, you were cheery. Everything had a home in here.
This closet makeover was one of the early blog blog posts. It was a good closet.
That white shelf is going to try and hold ALL of my craft supplies in Sunny. It’s a big unorganized, disaster at the moment too The gray desk is my new blogging desk.
Laundry room. How I really, really miss you. A free washer and dryer all to myself. 2 shelves of storage above, and look at that spice rack on the back of your door! You’re pretty. Sunny has no laundry room. We have to pay 50 cents to wash and 50 cents to dry our clothes. We share the one washer and dryer with 2 floors.
Shelves and fire place and desk and even the cable and outlet above the fire place so no cords hung down… Maybe it’s the pouring rain, gray skies, and broken sink pipe that flooded our bathroom here this morning. But, I miss our little condo in Texas right now. Our TV is currently sitting on a dresser in the living room with cords everywhere.
The downstairs 1/2 bathroom had shelves too. And hand towel racks and a legit TP holder. I gave the bamboo away. On the up side, our new half bathroom is a lot bigger
Oh tree through the fence on the balcony. You are my favorite, and the reason I choose that condo in the first place You can see the Budget truck down there!
And
Earl. Y’all know I loved Earl. He was a
naughty, but super cute squirrel. We gave his
house to Annie to use at her preschool.
This is Nutsy in Earl’s house.
I told you about the kitchen dilemma in our new apartment… The whole one drawer thing. I didn’t realize what a nice refrigerator we had either, and our cabinets went all the way to the ceiling. It’s the little things you don’t appreciate until they’re gone!
Bon Voyage, Austin condo…
How do you feel about shower curtains? Locking the door to your home for the last time? Do you compare your old house to your new house even years later? I’d love to hear…
Y'all are the cutest couple EVER! You're right, it is such a weird feeling moving out of a place you've lived a while. It's excitement, happiness, and sadness all rolled up into one. As long as you are with the person you love, it doesn't matter where you live. It's not the house that makes the memories! Good luck in Florida…go start making some wonderful new memories!!!
It wasn't a big deal for me, my last move, because I got married and moved from my mom's apartment to my husband's house. The thing that still bothers me, is that my mom moved from that apartment (where we lived for 15 years) to her own house. So, it's sad that I can never go "home" when I visit her. Her new home, is her's and she loves it. But it's nothing like walking in to my old bedroom.
And, because I couldn't be there during the process, with a small baby at the time, I didn't get to take my own pictures. She took some, which I haven't seen, but I would have highlighted what was important for me. I guess with some things, we are just forced to move on. I am, afterall, in my own house with my husband and daughter and we're happy. But I do miss the place I spent half my life.
Shower curtains: When we redid our "master bath" we intended on a glass shower door, and it never happened. But, it's not like it still can't happen. I'll have to add that to the list of "things to do around the house!".
-Theresa
http://ahappyscrappylife.blogspot.com
aww thanks… we try
And together is a wonderful place to be!
If or more likely, when my parents move out of their house… I will be super sad! Even though my mom gave my bedroom a makeover days after I moved out 8 years ago it is still my room and my bathroom!
The glass shower is not a huge deal… you can certainyl still add one! Y'all should go for it! You need a tile drill bit and waterproof caulk… I remember that much!
Why didn't you take your desk with you? So sad to leave it there! We just have a shower curtain – I actually like it better then doors.
Oh, do I ever talk about our first home! We moved to Bradenton, Fl. (we worked in St. Petersburg). We loved the location but hated to be so far away from home. We are on our third house now, but we talk about each one all the time. At least, now we agree that we are in our forever home…so much so…that we put a pool in last summer!
Hi. I hope that you are able to find soem positive ways to create a space in your new place that is as wonderful as your last place. I have enjoyed reading your blog for the imporvements you made. In regards to toilet storage have you seen these. They are great!!!
http://storagefurnitureideas.blogspot.com.au/2008/11/bathroom-spacesaver-over-toilet-storage.html
Plus you can take them with you when you go. I am looking forward to hearing how you resolve the "no permanent structures" problem.
Good luck.
Thank you for the ideas!
Happy to hear I'm not the only one! Are you still in FL? Anywhere near fort Lauderdale
It is attached to the wall… Would have made huge holes in the wall and tricky to re hang in our new place.
Yeah — my mom re-arranged my bedroom while I was on my honeymoon. I still had stuff to pack, so I was a bit pissed. But the plan was for her to use my newer bedroom furniture because I wasn't taking it with me, and she wasn't going to wait on me to get the job done. So, my bedroom was never quite the same, but I did go back and stay there a few times and it was nice to sleep in my old bed. Still sad.
Yeah, we'll probably do the shower door, but we have so many things on the list, that item will stay at the bottom. We completely remodeled our kitchen over the summer, things still need to be done. We have a half-completeed laundry room. Ah…