Our First Place

Every couple remembers their first place. For some, it's a fixer upper they stay in for years. For others it's a tiny flat in an exciting city. Whatever the space, it's special and sacred.

For us it's been a condo in the charming historic Demun neighborhood in Clayton, Missouri. This is where we moved in the day after Thanksgiving last year, two weeks newlywed. It's where we decorated our first Christmas tree, hosted our first Easter, played game nights with friends, tried new recipes and created traditions. It's where I nested the first few months of marriage while I got acquainted with a new city and searched for jobs. Where we learned what it meant to be roomies, husband and wife, friends through thick and thin. Where we developed the Saturday morning tradition of breakfast at the original Kaldi's. Where Jonathan dreamed up leather goods and made them a reality. Where I spent late nights hunched over our kitchen table proofreading and being thankful that I have an outlet for my passions and creativity. It was a perfect first place, better than we could have asked for, so now that we're two weeks away from moving out, I'm left nostalgic and feeling bittersweet. And since I never did a proper house tour when we first settled in, I wanted to do one now.

Back door entrance

Master bedroom

Bathroom 1 

I would call this the second bedroom, but it's been much more than just that. As you can tell, it's our bike storage, our spare closet, an occasional guest bedroom and what eventually evolved into a leather/sewing workspace. We don't like to limit our rooms, you know.

Bathroom 2, and for the sake of keeping things real, 80% of the time this is what that bathroom looks like because in the spirit of not limiting our rooms, this was usually my air-drying room too.

Living room

Bar, leather storage, etc.

Reading nook (that was rarely a reading nook but that sounds like a nice description, right?)

Dining area

Kitchen 

If you'll notice, we have a golden retriever calendar but no dog. That, dear reader, is the foremost reason we're moving out of this great first place. We have dog fever, BAD. And perfect as this place has been, its biggest flaw is perhaps the fact that we could not have a dog. Flaw #2 was that we weren't allowed to paint the two random green walls. It's a good thing we like green. 

There you have it, our special first place. We'll miss the neighborhood, the cozy open lay out and plenty of other things, but we're excited for Chapter 2. Coincidentally, we'll start our second year of marriage the day we're moved into our new place. I can't wait for all that year two will hold (read: we can't wait to get a dog!)

Thanks for stopping by!