Yesterday
I was packing my hand me
down items to move into my
first small apartment that I
was sharing with my
girlfriend. Today I am
helping my daughter pack her
things to move to her first
apartment. That’s the way is
seems. I do not know what
happened to the twenty-four
years in between the two
events but they are gone. My
daughter is so excited about
her first job and her first
real apartment. She lived on
campus for her first three
years of college and then
shared a house with several
other girls her last year,
but the house was furnished
so this is her first chance
to decorate her own space.
The apartment she was able
to afford is a small one
bedroom with a balcony. The
bathroom was next to the
bedroom and a nice size. The
kitchen was the standard
apartment U-shaped kitchen
with appliances on one side
and counter space on the
other with cabinets lining
the wall space. Two people
could cook in it. The
counter space could be used
as a breakfast bar and had
room for two stools. This
counter was adjacent to the
small dining area that had
the patio doors that lead
out to the balcony. She was
on the second floor and her
balcony overlooked the side
of the building, which was a
grassy area with a small
flower garden. The living
room was nice size however
it was long and narrow. My
daughter wanted me to help
her with decorating ideas
for a living room that
was so narrow. One end of
the space had a gas
fireplace the other end was
a blank wall there were two
large windows on the long
wall. It was hard to think
of decorating ideas for a
living room that did not
have any furniture in it.
She had saved enough money
from her summer job to buy
some furniture. Her father
and I told her that she
could have the bedroom
furniture from her room at
our house because we were
going to convert it to a
home office space. So she
needed to find a small
dining room set and living
room furniture.
I suggested that we start at
a second hand store that I
have shopped at through the
years to see if we could
find a table and chairs as
well as lamp stands and
coffee table for the living
room. This would give her
more money to spend for
decorating ideas for a
living room space that was
going to be a challenge. We
found a great deal on the
table and chairs; we also
found two chairs upholstered
chairs that were in very
good shape. I suggested she
buy them to make a grouping
by the fireplace and then
have a television watching
area in the other part of
the living room. This turned
out to be great
decorating ideas for a
living room shaped like
hers. She loves her space
and the feeling of
independence that it gives
her.
