fix up my apartment

Last week, it got painted, scrubbed and the old nasty broken chrome towel racks taken off. After filling in the holes and painting again, we put up 2 new racks, a mirror and a small cabinet from IKEA and a glass shelf. It looks miles better and is actually a pleasure to be in now.

We used our gift cards (and extra money) for some burgundy velvet curtains for the inside and some blue/purplish ones for the ones visible from the window. These last are a bit on the narrow side, so we’ll need to buy another set, but they are perfect, else. And it’s a lot warmer in here now, as they go down to the floor and block a lot of drafts between the 2 layers.

We got a Linens N Things gift card from my mom this solstice. Today we went to use it and got curtain rods for the living room and kitchen. The kitchen curtain rod we have is too wimpy for the heavy curtains we have on there. That old rod will move to our bedroom. The rod(s) we bought for the living room are black and will be double rods, as we went to IKEA and saw a double rod display that we both fell for, hard. One more double rod attachment is needed that’s getting picked up tomorrow, and then we are going to get curtains for the living room.

Other things that need doing in this place:

Paint bathroom
finish replacing baseboards
redo kitchen floor
reupholster the couch

Just for a start.