The end of my nomadic way of life, with pictures.
Have you ever bought a house? If you haven’t, and you, like me, have led a somewhat nomadic lifestyle over the past years, let this serve as a warning. When you close on your house they ask for your last 10 years of residencies. For someone who has moved every year at least once the last 10 years of residencies is not a trivial request. If you’re lucky, you have a good memory, if you’re not, there is google street view, my new favorite website.
In honor of the end of my nomadic life and the start of my settled life in one place (and the start of what I imagine will be a lot of interior design posts in the near future) I give you the last 3 years of my home life.
I guess when you move as often as I have you get sentimental about places and decide you need to set them up and photograph them all pretty. So here they are, 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2005-2006. (2006-2007 was a weird year that never got photographed.)
So here we are, a tour of apartments past:
When I first moved back to Minneapolis, I lived in a little studio apartment that looked out onto a pretty little courtyard. It was my very first apartment without any roommates. I don’t have any pictures of them here, but it had cute built-ins and sweet arched doorways. The plaster walls made it hard to hang much of anything at all and the squirrels were constantly trying to break in, but it was a sweet little place. (more photos here)
In between my studio and this place I lived with a roommate on the bottom floor of a really cold house. Moving into this place with it’s heavenly warm radiators was the best thing ever. My new yorker parents liked to call this my “new york style apartment” because they lived in something similar when they were younger. I just liked to call it awesome. I’ve never had more light than I had in this place. It was by far my favorite place to live (even with the random problems that cropped up while I lived there.) (More photos here)
This is home for the next few weeks. A cute little bungalow in the Longfellow neighborhood. I seem to have a thing with cold houses because this one was freezing. It is a cute little house though and it has a beautiful garden out back that I somehow managed not to completely destroy while I lived here. (more pictures here)
(gratuitous puppy shot)
A house tour of our new house will be coming sometime in the next few months, once we have a chance to paint and unpack and all that.
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I’m really disappointed that you described three different homes and didn’t use the word “lair” once.
I hope the new house is fantastic!
— Todd · Apr 29, 04:02 PM · #
Can’t WAIT to see how cute you fix up the new place. Your design skills are definitely universal!
— Sarah · May 1, 08:39 AM · #