First Things First ~ Home Stuff

I've been wicked busy, so I haven't been able to participate in this link-up (or any link-up for that matter) in a while! I like it though, so I'm taking the time to write and link-up with Halie @Penguins, Pasta, & Polka Dots! This is such a cute link-up...who doesn't love recalling old memories?

This week is all about Home, Sweet, Home....

1. First apartment or house on your own (away from you parents!)
2. First room you decorated or would like to decorate
3. First thing you bought for it, or would like to buy

1. First apartment or house on your own (away from you parents!)
   ~My first apartment away from my parents was the summer after I graduated college in 2008. Sigh...what a fun summer. I graduated college, received a teaching offer in Kindergarten, and moved out of my parent's house! I went to school in the same town that we lived in, so I got to live at home instead of the dorms all through college. I lived in Grey Eagle apartments on Old Spartanburg Road in Greenville, South Carolina. Oh the memories that were in that place! I lived there from July 2008 to August 2011. It was great...I was less than 10 minutes from work and it was a straight shot right down E.North Street. I was also less than 10 minutes to my gym, the mall, Target, and other important places in Gvegas. I found some pictures of my apartment complex...here it is! I made sure to include my favorite place...the pool!

 2. First room you decorated or would like to decorate.
   ~I decorated my whole 2 bedroom apartment when I was living there, but that's when I was single. When Brad and I started "seriously" dating, we started decorating our house. The first thing we did was paint the living room wall an accent color. :) That was such a fun day because it was our first "our home" project. The first room I decorated though was the guest bathroom. I guess we I started with that one because it was smaller, in the front of the house, and people would see it more often. We had found some wall art that we both liked and were in agreement on the colors. I had my color scheme, so it was pretty easy from there! I'm a bargain shopper, and I found some great stuff for the guest bathroom at places like TJMaxx, Ross, and Marshalls. It turned out pretty well...at least I think so!

Here's a picture of us painting from the tab "Our Story", but I don't have any pictures of the front bathroom?!? Oh well, maybe I can upload some later!

3. First thing you bought for it, or would like to buy.
   ~The first big thing that we bought as a couple was our bedroom set. I. Love. It. So. Much!! We looked around for a while at bedroom sets in February 2011. We had gotten engaged in December and it was time to get rid of Brad's old bachelor pad bedroom set and mine. We finally found the perfect bedroom set at Ashley Furniture in Greenville. I adore this set and am so glad that we got it!
(This picture came from the Ashley Furniture website :) )

Welp, that's it!