This is an entry into Apartment Therapy’s Smallest Coolest Apartments Contest.  The living room wall is very similar to our apartment layout and this is exactly the look I’m going for – shelving above and a tv and desk below. 

They made these shelves themselves!

Their apt is 371 square foot on the upper west side – they’ve really maximized the space!

  Love how they used paint to create a headboard.

This is too cute!

 This type of closet space would be a dream come true…

I almost bought one of these from Ikea.

Smokey the cat scratched our new sofa!!!!  I’m home all day so she must have done it when Mr. Bee and I went out to dinner last night.  I just took this picture right now – look at her… she thinks she owns the couch.  And let’s face it – she does.

Apartment Therapy happened to have a post on sofa scratching cats, and one of the commenters recommended this sisal scratching post. 

Here’s what one of the testimonials say:

Remember the Tanita Glass Digital Scale I purchased awhile back?  It looks nice, but I don’t really like it.   We had a nonglass Tanita scale previously that worked a lot better.

My parents had these tempurpedic pillows when Mr. Bee and I visited last week.  I had to jack them because I loved them!  So comfy and the shape just makes more sense.  My big head needs all the support it can get. 

Apartment Therapy has been hosting a diy pet decor contest this month.  I wish I could do something like this for Smokey!  She loves to be high up looking down on everyone, so she’d absolutely love this.

“So when are you going to have kids?”

Before Mr. Bee and I got married, we talked about waiting 2 years before trying to have kids.  On August 5th, it’ll be 1 year and 5 months since we got married – 2 years is already around the corner!   Both Mr. Bee and I are so busy with work though, it just doesn’t seem like a good time anytime soon… but I suppose it’ll never be a “good time.”

I like married life and I want more time to enjoy it before children come into the equation.  But I don’t want to wait too long to have kids either – 30 is just around the corner for me.  My aunt (who had her 2 kids in her 30s) told me to have kids quickly – once you have them you’ll regret not having had them sooner she said.  A married couple Mr. Bee and I had dinner with recently told us that they loved their 2 kids, but they wouldn’t trade the 5 years they had together before kids for anything.

My cat Sparky (who lives with my parents) had to spend the night at the vet’s office last night.  She’s the biggest scaredy cat on earth so I couldn’t sleep because I was so worried about her.  I’m constantly worrying about my pets (and everything else) because of my extreme anxiety/insanity.  It made me think - I’ve always wanted to be a mom – but will I go crazy worrying about our kids?  Probably. 

I think about having kids all the time.  If only I could wait another 2, 3, 4 years…

Wow I can’t believe I haven’t updated this blog in 3 weeks! 

I have ideas that I want to blog about almost daily, but I just don’t have the time.  I also started this blog to document newlywed life, but since we were moving it’s kinda turned into a design/decorating blog.  I’ll try to write more about newlywed life in coming weeks. 

Now I’m not a big fan of the stark modern aesthetic, but I love these libraries from poliform.  I hope we can have a library in our house one day because Mr. Bee is the most voracious reader I’ve ever known!
(via swissmiss)

Some of their super minimalist kitchens…

Cool things I found on Stylehive…

Enook – Gas Station for your gadgets.

Meneghini cool looking Italian refrigerators.

Tetris Shelving – My all-time favorite game!

Tetra Table – A coffee table with four pull out shelves for an apartment with limited space. 

Timestrip – Expiration Indicators

Our loft bed and sofa are finally arriving next week!  I haven’t really done anything to the apartment, and it’s still a mess with boxes everywhere.  But July will be the month of Cleanfest 2006 and hopefully I’ll be entertaining in no time!  I actually don’t like going out – I looooove entertaining, cooking, having friends over, and staying home.  Once our place is perfecto, I’m never leaving.

One thing I need to resolve is the shelving/desk situation.  While I like the look of these leaning shelf desks from Crate and Barrel, they really don’t hold that much on them and I need a ton of shelf space.  Plus where would all my wires go?  I have like a million gadgets and contraptions that I need to hide.

This is Ikea shelving but it actually looks quite nice.  I saw it over on Apartment Therapy awhile back.  We have muchisimo books which is why I think mounted shelves are our best bet, so we can take advantage of all our vertical space.

And there’s still the Container Store shelf/desk option which is very practical.

What do you think? 

According to this nymetro article, some parents on Long Island are spending up to 6 figures on professionally designed treehouses for their children.

When I was a kid, not only did I walk 10 miles to school in the snow with no shoes,
my treehouse was a cardboard box.

I recently bought this Vornado Air Circulator.  I’ve blogged about how much I love my Vornado heater.  Well this is a fine product as well.  Even though it’s small, it’s powerful and quiet!  Our air conditioner is in the bedroom so this sucks the cold air into our living room.

Of course you can also use it as a regular fan.

My parents never used to let us turn on the ac because it was a waste of electricity.  Actually our ac broke and it would cost over $10,000 to replace it, so we never did.  My brother and I used to sit in front of a fan and spray water from a spray bottle directly into the fan.  The water would then fly back at us and we had homemade air conditioning

G-H-E-T-T-O.  Or perhaps sheer brilliance.