Update: Condo after pictures!

   So after Saturday and Sunday of unpacking this is what our first home looks like! We have done a lot since then but there will be more posts to come on that!

Our living room before...

And after! The living room turned out great! Since this picture we have curtains up and hopefully soon we can start putting pictures on the walls!

Here are our computers (mine on the left, Graham's on the right). Graham spent 2 hours putting my desk together! Thank you hunny! I love it!

Another view of the living room facing our front door.

Here's my awesome kitchen. It's the smallest kitchen that I've ever had but I still make amazing food in it! The electric stove hasn't treated me too badly! I tried to set something (not the food) on fire but that's a story for another time!

And remember that boring, ugly bathroom?

 Isn't it pretty now?

Like I said we still have a lot of work to do but it's our home! Stay tuned for more tips and tricks that I am using and you can be OrganizedForReal!

Update: Unpacking

     So now, I had to figure out how to unpack all this stuff! Luckily we had all weekend to work on it. And I had the help of Graham and his mom, Mary was sooooo much help! 

She'd probably kill me for putting this picture on here but it's the only picture I took of her helping! Sorry Mary!

Mary rocked the kitchen! She said that she didn't really do anything but she helped so much! She worked and worked on the rack in the toaster oven (I don't think I had ever cleaned it because I thought it was beyond help when it was at Graham's apartment) until it shined!!! She unpacked basically all the kitchen for me. Soon I will start posting about some of the cool organizing ideas that I am using in the condo including the kitchen!

Graham worked hard on moving things around in the living room so that I could clean before we set things up since I didn't get a chance to clean before we moved. 

We didn't even lose any of the legs for the couches!!! Yeah!!!!

See? A lot more stuff went into the guest bedroom as we went!

Look! We have closets!!! I am so excited about that! From this picture it looks like Graham was going to get half of the closet but I hadn't hung any of my stuff up yet! He has about a sixth of it now. What can I say? I have a lot of clothes! I also can't wait to share what I did with my shoes with you!

Time to put clothes in the dressers! Can't wait until we have the other dressers for the guest bedroom so then we can put all our clothes away, I still have some in baskets. 

That's all the pictures I have for unpacking, tomorrow you get to see the final reveal! We still have a lot to do but it will give you an idea of how we have the condo set up!

Update: Moving pictures

     So I've put it off for long enough. Do you want to see some pictures of our move? I was planning on taking picture of the condo after I cleaned and before we moved furniture in but then there was a change of plans. I got one picture before we moved in. Here is the wall where our front door is. Isn't it awesome??? We love this wall! Sorry about the spots on the camera lens!

     So I was at work on a Friday and Graham called and said "We are moving... now." We had planned on moving the next day but there was rain in the forecast and rain it did, all weekend and into the next week! It took us about 2 and a half hours to move everything out of the house and into the condo. So here is the tour of the condo after everything was moved in with boxes everywhere. Luckily I had pretty much marked all of the boxes with what room they went in so that it would be easy to unpack. 

Here is the kitchen from the dining room with all of the boxes waiting to be put in the kitchen.

Doesn't look too chaotic right?  

Well, this is the view from the dining room of the living room. Still not too bad...

And then boom, that's where all the stuff is! 

So much stuff!

While I was working on organized boxes, Graham did the touchups in the master bedroom, with the unassembled bed in there and everything! 

He didn't know that I took this picture.

Say hi to the camera Graham!

Here is the guest bedroom, we put extra boxes that didnt have a place in here since we don't have the furniture yet. This room eventually got so full that you couldn't get into it very well. Lol!

So much stuff!

Then from the hallway, this was the view of the living room. I honestly had no idea where to start!

Come back tomorrow for the unpacking pictures!

Update: Still alive

     I know, I know! It's been almost a week since my super quick update! I'm actually sitting in the airport waiting for a friend to come home so I thought that I would check in quick. 
     So we are completely moved into the condo, none of our stuff is in our other house. It took a while to get to this point but I'm glad that we are. We have a lot unpacked and still some more to go. I have the kitchen, living room, bathroom and master bedroom all unpacked (except for clean laundry that I finished moving yesterday!) We still need to hang pictures and decorations, hang curtains (which needs done badly, someone (not me) is a little paranoid without them up) and move the guest bedroom furniture from my parents house. I got tired of unpacking but I finally did some more last night and I got a lot done. 
     I will get pictures on here soon, I promise. It's been kind weird, I haven't really had the desire to post anything lately, just been too busy with life. I want to post about the condo and I also want to post about some of the awesome freebies that I have gotten lately. Maybe this weekend things will slow down, I doubt it but maybe. Then I will try to get on here and at least post about the condo so that way you can see pictures! I am sure you are just dying to see it right? Well, I think I have rambled enough, my friend should be landing soon. Until next time, stay OrganizedForReal!

Super Quick Update: Condo!!!

     Hey everyone! This is just a super quick post to tell you that I am writing this from our new condo!!!! I've got lots of pictures to post soon but there is a lot to unpack still. Can't wait to show you! Until then stay OrganizedForReal my friends!!!

Life Update: Painting

     Hey guys! I know, I know, my last post was on Saturday. Things are definitely crazy around here with packing and getting things ready for the condo. I got most of the kitchen packed yesterday except for food. We have all the holes in the walls spackled and we put foam around the air conditioner. We also choose colors for walls and got paint as well as light switch covers and things like that. Today is no different, still crazy. Today I am going to start painting. We will see how it goes. Just wanted to give you a quick update so that you know I am still around. I have other things that I would like to post but I just can't seem to find the time. I don't think I posted this weeks meal plan, sorry about that. I got out of the grocery store for 15 dollars this week!!! I also want to write about a couple other freebies that I received in the mail recently. I'll try to share pictures of the progress at the condo when I can but now I've got to head out to paint. So until then, stay OrganizedForReal!

Life update: Condo

     So guess what we finally got to see last night? Our condo!!!! Yeah!!!! So excited! So I decided to post some pictures so that you can see what it looks like. Mind you these pictures don't look very great because of the lighting. It was dark outside. We are going to go back to the condo in a little bit to look at it in the daylight. 

I think Graham was pretty excited to be there! Graham is standing in the dining room, the kitchen is to the right and the door on the left goes to our balcony, with a view of the pool!

Then here is our tiny but pretty kitchen. We may actually keep that wall color. And look at the track lights on the ceiling! Aren't they awesome! Love them!

Then of course there is the other side of the kitchen. It is a nice frig that is pretty new. Then, cue the doomed music, dun dun dun, an electric stove. This is my new challenge! We will see how it goes, I guess! 

Here is the view of our living room from our dining room. It's nice and big with a big closet by the door. I am so excited about closet space!

Here is a closer up view of the entrance. Then on the left you see the little hallway to the bedrooms and bathroom.

Here is the guest bedroom. Apparently i forgot to take a picture of it! But it is basically the same as this one but a little bigger and flipped the other way.

Then here is our bathroom from the hallway.

And the bathroom closet and shower. The closet is really deep which is awesome!

Then standing in hallway out of the bathroom here is the living room again,

along with the seller and the Cracker!

     We are so excited to be able to get in there and really make this our first home together! We can't move in yet but the seller said we can take nails out, spackle and paint. Yeah!!!!

So what do you think? Do you like it? I can't wait to show you our progress as this journey continues, keep checking back for more updates!

Moving: Boxes

     One of the most important things to have when you are moving is boxes of course. But do you want to spend a lot of money on boxes? I just looked at a popular moving companies website and their boxes range from $1.25 to 3.25 PER BOX!!!!!! That's just crazy! So what am I doing instead, you may be thinking. 
     Well, I definitely believe that everyone should invest in some plastic totes. They are worth getting because they are durable and good to keep for storage as well. But there is no way that I am buying enough of those totes to move all of our stuff so what am I going to do with the rest of our stuff? Well, I just got back from the grocery store and I got 6 apple boxes! These are great because they are very sturdy and they also have a lid which makes for great stacking! See!

     I will keep checking back at our local grocery store to get more the next couple weeks as well. Well, I think it's time to start packing again! Well, maybe I should finish folding my laundry first then packing! Use these few tips and you can be Organized PackingForReal!