The first apartment is always special. I shared my apartment with seven other girls, and needless to say it was quite crazy, and definitely memorable! We were all on an art student's budget, so our house was decked out with lots of handmade, hand-me-down, thrift store finds, and oh yes, lots of tapestries… Even with too many roommates, too small of a space, and too low of a budget you make it work because it's finally yours. From students shacking up with friends, renters moving out on their own, to a couple moving in together, here are some of our readers' most impressive first apartments.
TOP ROW:
1. Emily and Meeko's Sunny First Apartment
2. Alex's Melting Pot of a First Apartment
3. Kyle's First Student Studio
4. Monica's Teeny-Tiny Student Studio
5. Dee's First Apartment: A Study in Details
BOTTOM ROW:
6. Sarah & Allen's First Apartment
7. Rae's First Apartment
8. Lauren's First Solo Flight
9. Rhiannon and Victor's First "Grown-Up" Home
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My first apartment took for ever to furnish as by the time I paid the mortgage there wasn't much left for furniture and I preferred to save up and buy things I really wanted than buy cheap stuff... But it never looked as good as the first apartments above...
The one in Boston, (Dee) has terrible pictures in the walk through. Almost all of them were random closeups of like, the corner of a rug or a book or something. >_<
My first apartment was a furnished studio with ugly linoleum floors, an antique hide-a-bed sofa that ate my sheets (with miserably uncomfortable but durable upholstery), pink wallpaper with swans in the bathroom, blue wallpaper with sailboats in the teensy kitchenette (which had an unusual counter height refrigerator with a sink in the top), and a closet in what originally was the front door vestibule when it was a single family home. (The upstairs apartment's bathroom was over my closet, and once the toilet flooded -- everything I owned had t be laundered.
I don't think the renters shown above can possible appreciate how lucky they are!!! Yes, they have maturity and taste, but they are also very very lucky! (Yes, I am jealous!) ;^)