after a week of cleaning and shifting things around, i now have a more spacious and comfortable living space:

smokestack did an amazing job! moving one of the couches to the bedroom and changing my home office set-up gave way to an obscene amount of open space in the living room (although you may not see it in the pics). so much so, that he was also able to make a little dining area- something i definitely didn’t have room for before. (you can see the “before” pictures here)

in the bedroom, the addition of a couch offers a nice lounging space in which i can write or hang out. it’s perfect for when i want to get away from the living room without having to go to bed.

in addition to that, he also dramatically reduced the clutter around the entire apartment by collecting all the thing i had laying around that i wasn’t really using before. after i went through all the junk-getting rid of things i no longer wanted or needed- i was astounded by how much more comfortable my apartment was. there is definitely something to be said for keeping things simple.

i liked my apartment arrangement before, but i absolutely love it now! i have room to dance again LOL. and i can also invite people over without them having to crawl over shit to get around. thanx a bunch, smokestack. you really did me a solid!