Rental house BEFORE

Ok we have the keys.  I took over the first small load in my car this morning, don't tell Chaynce I'm taking a break to take pics and post them and it'll all be ok :)

Front of the House

Pic from entryway, and I will be taking down those curtains

Back half of the living/dining/main room

Right as you come in the front door and look right, the first bedroom

First bedroom, these are tiny.  hence they're hard to get a pic of much while inside the room

More first Bedroom, we will likely be using this as our bedroom as it's the room with a door

This is the second room, we'll be using it for the rolling racks and dressers and probably a broom closet but that's not at the beginning of the to-do list

Other half of the second room, it has the bathroom off of it, and that isn't our armoire, we'll be getting rid of them

As you walk into the bathroom

The bathroom is narrow and very difficult to get a picture of this side but a stall shower and stackable washer and dryer

Kitchen, the most "current" room in the house

The other half of the kitchen and the back door

The backyard right as you come out the back door, that is the owners dog posing for the pic, they're scrambling trying to build a dog run at their new home.

back side of the house, that cellar door just leads down to some storage space and the water heater

Side yard

More side yard, there's a clothes line.  Not my thing but I like the added character

the back of the shed where we have struggling grape vines and the back alley

Well there you are.  The house was built in 1920 and definitely has an aged look to it.  These are all pictures before we put anything inside so there's definitely some stuff we need to clear out.  I'll be jumping headfirst into a million projects.  I think first is rolling racks and painting the front bedroom.  However, I work weekends so I prob won't start till next week.  I'm really excited to document our progress though.

Closet Planning

So we're on the brink of moving.  We are attacking it tomorrow.  It's a few days later than planned but that's how those things often go.  I'm planning a lot of before and after pics soon and as I go along (I plan on decorating this place to my hearts content).  It's a little house, very little.  In fact it has zero closets.  I've been spending a lot of time trying to plan how to handle this.  It's a two bedroom so we've decided on one room being a regular room and using the other room for closets/clothing storage among other things.  We thought about getting those enclosed closets from Walmart as they'd fit our needs but I hate the idea of buying it and using it while we're here and then having no use for it and likely just throwing it away.  So I've come up with some better ideas.  What we'll most likely do is this:

I came up with this as I've finally "defined" a decorating style that we both like: Vintage Industrial.  Just knowing this is helpful.  I can google image search all sorts of ideas and we agree on about 90% of things.  I don't know how to express how AMAZING that really is.  Anyways I google image searched vintage industrial closet storage and found this.  We agree, we both like.  But even better we can ultimately re-use them for any future retail endeavors of mine.  And they can be used to decorate in future spare rooms.  They feel like more something we'd keep and use rather than just have a temporary use.  In our searching we also found this idea...

We really like this idea too but I doubt we'll make it.  It's just too simple to do the other one.  But I thought I'd still share the idea.  

Initially I thought I'd want just one large rolling rack but I've decided it'd be more aesthetically pleasing to do two smaller ones and go with a his and hers idea.  I love the aged wood on the bottom you can stack shoes on.  There are tons of variations you can do with switching up different pipe fittings or adding more wooden shelves, for now the plan is just a basic rolling rack like the picture but it won't be too challenging to switch it up later.  Cool right?  I'm ready to run with it, too bad we're right in this packing/moving business.