Our Apartment---
Our daughter, Angie, and son-in-law, Josh, have lived in South Florida for about 3
years now. I love the sun, palm trees, sand, ocean, ... . So I have been coming
down to visit as often as possible and whining that we should move down
here. Finally, Ken agreed to rent a 1 bedroom townhouse for a year,
about 2 miles from Angie and Josh, and see how we like it.
Our humble little abode---complete with garage for our bikes, the washer and drier, and even a car.
Angie even agreed to furnish and
decorate the townhouse for us so we didn't have to move any of our old furniture here.
They hit estate sales, thrift stores, and Craigslist and turned our
apartment into our own little resort condo! Hard to believe she was
able to do it all for about $1400! And they had it all set up by the time we arrived in June. She got the beautiful solid wood entertainment center for $90. New
leather chair for $99 and white wicker chairs for dirt
cheap, which she reupholstered. Assorted decorator items also from estate sales and Home Goods
for cheap!
And they've "loaned" us one of their extra tvs.
The $50 thrift store couch, side table and lamp.
Tommy Bahama style dining room set for $100. Artwork, too
Patio set and plant.
Here's our entrance. The garage is to the left. The rest of our townhouse is up the stairs. I'm doing a lot more stairs now then ever before! But I like that our stairs are within our townhouse.
Ikea desk, 2 estate sale chairs, and their old guest king mattress. Plus a set of thrift store lamps for the matching thrift store wicker 2 drawer night stands. We did bring my desktop computer with us.
Eventually I moved some pictures around so we have something on that wall
The bathroom
From the hallway outside the bedroom
The kitchen
Ken going out the front door and steps to the dining room, bedroom and bathroom. There's even a half wall pantry dividing the dining room and kitchen
My pool!
So we left our 4 bedroom house with full basement and are now living in a 1 bedroom condo. It does have some perks---like it's easy to clean and we have our own private pool (almost)! Now we just have to keep from cluttering up our apartment like we did to our house over the last 45 years!
