I wanted to share a few photos of our new place! It’s not quite done yet—although come to think of it, I don’t expect it ever will be done. I quite like the idea of it being sort of an ongoing art project. I wish I’d taken a few photos of when we moved in, with boxes everywhere and paint cans littering the floor (from me, not from the previous owners. We painted the entire place when we moved in, with fabulous help from my parents and our friends Michael and Phil.). It was so much fun to choose colors for the whole apartment. It’s the first time either of us has ever bought a home and had complete freedom to do whatever we like with it. Mike bowed out, giving me free reign, and I’ve been having a blast. Here are the first few shots, with more to come as things shape up. Enjoy!

The living room, complete with obviously fake fruit and even more obviously comfortable cats. I went with a color called Soothing Green Tea. What do you think? I’m not normally one for a lot of green, but I wanted something different.

Slightly wobbly shot of the back of the living room included solely because I love my black wingback chairs with their shiny white legs.

What could possibly be playing on the (extremely dusty) television whilst I take these pictures for the blog? My daily dose of Mr. Rochester, of course!

Kitchen, with its paint color a custom mix blended by me in the kitchen after the original blue I bought turned out to look very…circus-y. And not in that good, happiest-place-on-earth kind of way.

The cutest dishtowel every created, screenprinted with Mr. Darcy’s proposal to Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. I adore this. It’s from an Etsy shop called Brookish, which has all manner of lovely  items. And I am fairly certain her P&P Christmas ornament will have to hang on my tree as the official commemorative ornament of 2009.