Ready for a Remodel

The seating area in our living room

Josh and I tell everyone who asks us that we love our apartment. Despite being located in a low-income (see: super cheap! yay!) housing area in a Rochester suburb, we find it to be spacious, tidy, and chic–not to mention full of recently replaced features such as new carpeting, new paint on the walls, and new kitchen cabinets.

As our lease is coming due this next month, we have no intention of relocating. We love Rochester culture, we love living on the west side of the city, we love our local family and friends, and we love our little bungalow. We don’t even mind the snow! Of course, after a year living anywhere most people would be ready for a change of scenery, and we certainly are! Watching HGTV nonstop has us itching to update our space 🙂 The victims are our bedroom and living area. We’ve decided to switch up the color schemes and accessories in each space.

Stay tuned for how we make this change without so much as opening a can of paint! For now, here are some “before” pictures of the two rooms.

Entertainment center and work space across from seating area

Because the rooms’ colors are so neutral, we’ve picked an accent color for each space and decorated with random accessories in that color

My grandma cross-stiched this for our wedding gift ❤

Moving on to the bedroom!

The fan in the background kind of ruins the ambience here . . . but get a load of my palatial bed!

This rocking chair is a gift from my grandpa for our future nursery 🙂 I suppose the teddy bears will be more appropriate in there than in our bedroom . . .

This bookcase of leather-bound classics (which I consider as the focal point of the room) was a gift to my little sister from her great-uncle. She gifted me only the ones she “didn’t enjoy reading now and then.” Lucky me!

Yes, that picture frame is empty. Don’t judge. I haven’t decided what to put in it.

Pictures of these rooms post-remodel are in the works! Mostly because the remodel itself is still in the works . . .