Apartment Tour: Spare Room

Last room of the apartment tour today!

This spare room is the crown jewel of this new apartment. It's big! Overall, the new apartment is smaller in every other way compared to our old place, but the spare room is actually bigger. At our old apartment, the spare room was tiny. We could fit a queen futon and a bookshelf and literally that was it. It worked fine at the time but it would have been very difficult to accommodate more than one child in that room.

Obviously, the point of us living in a two-bedroom apartment is because we anticipate making the spare room into a child's bedroom, eventually.

The spare room in the new apartment is easily two times bigger than the spare at the old apartment. Right now, we have a queen-size futon in there, the bookshelf, a desk, AND the old kitchen table currently being used as a craft table. All that, and as you can see, plenty of extra space.

This room has a long way to go as far as design. I didn't want to invest too much into it now because I'm hoping to make it child friendly soon. If we can ever get pregnant! Flinging flanging frustrating!!!!! We still need window valances, some paint, and better organization since it' a bit of a catch-all room at the moment. But the closet is huge!

I'm glad we were able to keep the table and the desk in here for now. The table used to be in our old kitchen and it seats four and expands. This table will eventually be replaced by a dresser.

The desk we bought in the spring for Dan to use at the church office. When we decided to leave we took the desk since it was new and we spent a pretty penny on it. This desk will eventually be replaced by a crib. BUT, the top comes off of the desk and you can keep the bookshelf and filing cabinet separately.

The big window above the radiator unfortunately has an ugly fire escape security gate over it (typical New York). So that curtain always remains covered but the other window gets great light. 

And that wraps-up the apartment tour. Sorry, it wasn't really worth the wait but thanks for your patience.

See the rest of the tour here:
Entryway
Kitchen
Living Room
Nooks and Crannies
Bedroom