myretroperspective

Finally, I'm inviting you into my home! I'm hoping for those reading from the Eastern Hemisphere to get as many of you physically here as possible but for those who don't make it- the wonders of the internet once again will suffice.  This is long overdue and my only excuse is that we had a few things that came in our HHE (final big shipment) that I wanted to have framed here in China. I located the fine arts institute in town and found a frame store right down the street with help from a seasoned Shenyang expat. I got three great custom frames for about $35. You see why it was worth the wait! Anyways, after the framing we also had to schedule for someone to hang our pictures for us (they're not crazy about us trying to hack away at the walls ourselves so they offer this service for free). But without further ado, here's our house tour! (for the before pictures check out this post ) Living Room: the prints of the northern and southern night sky in the background are ...

living room looking towards the dining room from the living room looking towards our bedroom from the living room I made the fatal mistake of just mentioning our apartment in the last post and have had several requests for photos. Somewhere in the back of my mind I'd planned to wait until we got all of our stuff (which means you'd be waiting until March or April?) and everything was "just so" before posting any pictures, but that's so not me.  dining room Let's face it, creating a home in any space is a process. I think it was just weeks before we left our Atlanta home that I started to feel like I had it how I wanted it. Seeing as how we will be here a full two years (longer than ANY residence I've maintained on my own, ever) I'm sure this apartment will go through several iterations. So I've decided that sharing the blank slate we have to work with would be a fun step in the process. one corner of the kitchen Another corner- the silver thing on t...