Having a balcony was one of the main wish-list items for my District apartment, and I was so thrilled to find an apartment with some outdoor space again (summer heat, be-damned!)
Apparently I am not the only one who enjoys balconies — a week after moving in, I wake up one morning to find pigeon crap everywhere.
We are finally settled into our apartment in Washington D.C. — the hoard of boxes is gone and all of the furniture is put together. Blessed be.
Moving is always more time consuming and painful than I expect. Between scrubbing grout and an embarrassing number of Home Depot trips, I am exhausted.
And yet I survived, somehow.
Scrubbing the grout at my old apartment while moving out.
I was highly paranoid about getting charged move-out costs since my last building nailed me with a $1,000 bill. This time everything would be scrubbed, bleached, steamed, polished, and photographed.
So I spent the entire weekend cleaning, including shampooing the bedroom carpet. (I rented a Rug Doctor from the Kroger across the street. Super cheap, and easy to do. I highly recommend it.)
On Monday, I marched downstairs to schedule my move-out walk-through with the building manager. He was in the middle of dealing with the police and had to reschedule for that afternoon. Apparently two apartments were broken into over the weekend.
Well, I am supposed to move into a new apartment in two weeks. The apartment transfer process is unexpectedly painful and we still do not have a proper lease for the new unit.
Assuming that I can eventually get a new lease for the apartment, I will have to figure out how to set up my home office. This means spending an inordinate amount of time lusting over designer home offices and coveting furniture that I will never be able to squeeze into my bedroom.
A boy can dream, right?
First, there are the insanely expensive home-office options over at Restoration Hardware et. al.
Restoration Hardware is a fantasy for me. It’s beautiful, aspirational, and utterly out of my budget.
This doesn’t mean I won’t gawk anyway…
A beautiful Restoration Hardware desk, but with way more space than I’ll have in my new apartment.
Loving the tall skinny lights on this desk. It looks kind of low though.
I love the pictures behind this Restoration Hardware desk. The chair is also similar to my current one.
For those who never get tired of looking at themselves, this Restoration Hardware desk has a massive mirror in front of it.
I love the oversized suitcase look of this desk. The collars in the case are slightly creepy.