Just Another Day!!

Due to Hurricane Irene, I was kicked out of my apartment for a few days and forced to stay at my grandmothers house. Thank God, I didn't have damage but since there was no cable at my grandmothers, I couldn't watch my HGTV(Sad Face).

However, I decided that Im going to do Thanksgiving this year and I have decided that I want my apartment to be completed done by then, that leaves me two months!

Therefore, I still need to paint my closet doors black, purchase a coffee table for the living room and maybe a dining room table.(Not sure yet). O yea, and a picture to hang behind my couch. I realized that I have not spent on a dime on myself this ENTIRE SUMMER. I sooo need to go Fall Shopping. Maybe I will detour the house shopping and go clothing shopping this weekend.

Just Maybe! lmao

Dining Room-Before Picture

Living Room-After Picture

Adding the Perfect Accessories

As you can see I took my couch apart and went from open concept to close concept..meaning, when the couch was together it left the living room open leaving open space to walk directly in the e dining room but now that its separate it cuts the living room space off leaving a separate room for the dining room.  I then personalized this room by hanging pictures of myself on the wall. I also added to corner shelves to wall to add pictures of my family and  a place where I can add more decor to the room.

Choosing The Right Sofa

Before choosing the right sofa, I chose to have the living room painted white. Again, if the room is small then you want to paint the room a bright color like white, or off white to make the room look larger. I chose a red sofa which not only match the red under tone in the wood on the floor but red also pop as it is against a white wall. Red brings a WOW factor to any room.

Living Room-Before Picture

The picture above is a before picture, not yet freshly painted with drapes hanging from ceiling to floor. As you can see this room receives a lot of natural light therefore, you want to allow the light to shine in so drapes are definitely a no no...In addition, when you have drapes in a smaller room it makes the room look smaller than its actual size. Therefore, I removed the drapes to make the room look bigger and to allow the natural light in.

MY BRUISE....

Yesterday, I worked an earlier shift and had enough time to run my errands but unfortunately by the time I got home it was pouring down raining. I took a nap for about a hour, looked out the window and saw it finally stopped. I decided this will be the perfect time to build my new book shelf. I walked outside to my car, pulled the heavy box out my trunk and tried to put it in my shopping cart.

The box was soooo heavy that I couldn't lift it on the ground, I thought if I only I had a male next to me I would have him carry it my apt for me. BUT, being the independent girl that I am, I tried it again and still could not lift this heavy box.

I placed the box on the ground and then laid the shopping cart on the ground in front of it and tried to push the box in it but still to no avail. I thought maybe I should drag the box to my apt and tried that but it was making tooo much noise.

SOOO, I decided to open the box, take out the pieces and then placed it in my cart to make my box lighter. I figured two trips will be enough.

I dragged the cart up my steps, went into my apt and took out the wood one by one, being entirely too anxious to start building my shelf, I grabbed the piece and don't know how but pushed it against my leg, I felt a bruise. I didn't think it would be that bad but when I looked I witnessed a big bruise on my right leg :(

I went back outside for what was suppose to be the last run, took the box and placed the rest of the wood back in my trunk. I should of known I couldn't do this by myself,,,,but I tried....it was worth MY BRUISE!!