Laying It Out

D. and I were at a bar over Christmas week and started trying to draw the layout of our apartment on cocktail napkins, using lottery pencils. We definitely don't agree with how the current owners have the apartment laid out, but weren't sure of how the main room should work. The foyer leads right into the main living/dining area, but we are not formal people, don't watch too much TV, and are always working on projects, so we want the space to be workable - and not just the TV/Dining table-focus that the current owners have (they have their big dining set by the bay window and the TV in the middle of the room).

When we got home that night, D. laid out a rough blueprint (above) on CAD and we labeled how we think we will lay out the general areas. We added a 'work area' to a nook in the main room, because we know the way we live, and work won't be completely relegated to the office - more likely, we will want to be social and be able to work at the same time.

We were inspired by D.'s brother and sister-in-law who have a great art table in a nook near their kitchen that they seem to use often. Hopefully we can install something similar that we'll use a ton.

I printed out a few copies of the plans and sketched out furniture and art ideas (and it was much easier than doing it on the cocktail napkins). I'm having fun playing around with the plans and looking forward to our hopefully imminent move (things are moving along, but the Christmas/New Years holidays seemed to slow down the work).