Homebody

While friends of ours are celebrating major milestones in their lives and careers or they’re just sharing fun stories and experiences, the only thing I can seemingly talk about is the new carpet we have. It is something to talk about, mainly because I could have never imagined finding one would be so easy nor…

Custom Kitchen Delivery- Part 3

I realized I never really continued writing about the biggest home renovation project we went through. I started off by writing about how we came up with the design, taking into account some key elements, then I wrote about all the changes we had to meet to get there. But then, some bigger things got…

On The Wall

A home is a work in progress. While I heard that countless times during the engagement period, the words never really rang true until we moved in and we started interacting with the space all the time. Even though we had tried really hard to make it seem complete and decorated, there are still spaces…

IKEA is My Home Decor Inspiration

I’ve made no secret of my love for the Swedish, affordable, furniture giant IKEA. Having grown up being dragged there over the weekends and browsing the yearly catalogs for entertainment, everything I know about getting a house together has come from the warehouse in yellow and blue. So naturally, my apartment looks like it could…

Wedding Printables

When you’re planning a wedding, it’s easy to draw inspiration from all sorts of different places for your own event. You go to a wedding and you like how the tables were set up. You log into Facebook and someone’s tagged at a wedding and you end up browsing the entire album, enjoying how they…

Moving Boxes

IKEA’s cardboard boxes are a godsend. Let that be known and properly documented. I just don’t know what I would do without them. In what may seem as small boxes, I’ve stashed so many different tokens from different periods of my life. But the best part is when you’d look at these boxes it doesn’t…

The House is Done

With today’s foray into selecting the right curtains to go with our living room and dining room being a success, and with buying the last set of plates that I really wanted to have, our apartment is finally furnished and ready for us to move in to. If I’ve learned anything in the past year,…

At Home

I’ve come a long way to get here. I’m very attached to specific dates in my life, especially ones that relate to our relationship: the day Ahmad and I first met online, the day we first met face to face, when we officially started dating, the day he proposed, the first time we attended a…

Achievement Unlocked

Our living and dining rooms arrived on my birthday in January. That is after they had spent two months in the warehouse of the shop we had purchased them from. Essentially, these items have been through it all with us. When we painted three of the walls and put up wallpaper on the fourth one….

Wedding Season Has Begun

I woke up today and checked my Facebook and Instagram accounts. That’s something I do everyday. Very gradually though, my Facebook is turning into a display of people’s wedding albums. Except those people are not random strangers: they’re old classmates or friends or family members. Everyone is growing up and making big life changes. (Side…