Happy Monday! As I was trailing off to sleep last night after 6.23 episodes of Scandal, it occurred to me that I haven't shown off our "new" place in the way it deserves. We moved from our sprawling 2 bedroom, carpeted, suburban apartment to a concrete-floored, street-level, zero-bedroom studio at the end of May. WE LOVE IT. I was so afraid that we would get on each other's nerves (totally happens) but not nearly as often as one would think! We have all of this incredible light in our place that neither of us fully realized when we fell in love with it to begin with. 

I used to feel guilty leaving for work, but now Daisy and Ralph can watch the world go by out the floor-to-ceiling windows along the whole west side of our apartment. The concrete floors are also really nice because nothing stains them! Red wine? Dump it. Muddy boots? Tromp on through! I'm not a neat freak by any means, so the concrete floors are sort of godsend in this household. Pretty much anything can be swept up or wiped away. 

While I love white walls for the whole minimalist aesthetic, I also got my heart set on the idea of an exposed brick wall inside the apartment. Fortunately, this bearded guy I'm marrying (eep! that still feels weird to say!) is handy and patient and has access to power tools, so he made it happen. We used faux brick paneling from Lowe's. They were, like, 8 ft x 4 ft and cost about $25 each, I think. We struggled with how to adhere them to the wall. Apparently this sort of thing, if done improperly, can lead to mold?! Research told us to let the paneling acclimate in the new place for a few days before we put them up to help get the moisture and such in balance. We ended up screwing it into the studs and leaving gaps for the air to flow behind the paneling. Did it keep the mold away? I haven't been brave enough to peek, to be honest. #WorthIt


Even if the inside of our place wasn't hella adorable, it still has a lot going for it. We step outside practically onto Mass Ave!! For any non-Indy dwellers, we're steps away from half-priced Sushi Sundays and Froyo and Pizza and Tacos and Fish & Chips and theaters and museums and -- ahh!! All the things!! I actually chronicled all of this wonderfulness for IndyHub last month. You never know what the future holds, but this little space we call home right now is pretty great. ♥