new apartment!

it's about time i posted about

our new place! it's been a work

in progress since we moved, went

off to europe, and came home to a

crazy month of work, visitors, a

photo shoot, more visitors, a napa 

weekend, a stop through dallas, and 

even more visitors! whew! life hasn't

calmed down. we've slowly but surely

put our tiny studio together, so that it's

starting to feel like home. i posted a

little bit about our building here when 

we moved in, but now here are some

pictures of the inside. we may pay the

equivalent of a salt lake city home 

mortgage for a little box studio in san

francisco, but the location and experience

are what we want right now. (and, we did

get a really good deal for san francisco :)

here's to making this little city studio feel

more and more like home...it is a little

small and crazy, but we're livin' up this

 fun time in our life when we can fit 

everything we own into one room!

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before the studio tour, i have to say that this

has made me nostalgic for our first apartment.

chase and i just looked at all these pictures from

when we had just moved in and signed our 

first lease together as a little married couple!

we still feel like newlyweds, but thinking of

that time makes me see how much we've

done and experienced together already.

the places you live become part of you & i

have loved the places we've lived so far.

here's to adding this place to the ranks.

we've now lived in 4 different 

apartments in less than 2 years 

of marriage...never a dull moment! 

^^^ this guy is definitely the best part of our place.

so is that little courtyard behind him...i love the

window showing the brick with the vines! 

^^ in love with these classic glass doorknobs

^^ everything in one room! we have since

put up curtains around our bed, so our visitors

have a little bit of their own space...and the white

couch rolls out into a full bed, so friends-- don't

let this little space keep you from coming to visit! :)

^^ see the difference? the curtains transformed

the place. thanks, husband + shelley!

^^ chase's cute mom helped me hang these over

the kitchen when they were in town last week...it

was quite the project but she is a pro and i love them!

lucky to have an interior designer for a mother-in-law.

^^ getting creative with space and 

hanging pots thanks to kendall!

^^ new place = reorganizing pantry items into cute jars

^^ the white damask wallpaper in the 

hallway kills me. my favorite!

^^ for valentines day, chase surprised me and painted our

bathroom tiffany blue color. so much cuter. love him!

^^ just our street. we are living our DREAM!

i need to remember that when i miss our

old neighborhood in the south bay or feel

cramped in our little place...we have the whole

world outside our doorstep and it's right

where we want to be right now. the big house

with the yard and dog and space can come later :)

^^ we only have one little closet, so we got 

creative with space and chase built this wall

unit from ikea...brilliant! it's now covered by

the curtain we put up, so it works! city livin'.

^^ friends, hope you are knocking

on door #27 soon! more visitors please!

^^ chase made this for me when we were dating. 

so true and love that we live right here.

it is definitely an adventure!

xo