Ever since the first time I saw this condo, I knew it would make an amazing home for me. For a bit, I tried not to get my hopes up because I knew it wasn’t a guarantee that it would be ours. When we put in an offer, we knew there were multiple people offering similar amounts to us. I still think I’m so lucky that this became my home and I didn’t have to keep searching for a place. I really think I couldn’t have found a better place for what we were looking for (the only thing I’m not 100% happy with is having people who share walls with me, but I’m getting used to that).
And it seems like I find the silliest little things to be excited about. Before the condo was officially ours but when we were in escrow, I made a comment to my mom that I’ve never really lived somewhere that had a hallway besides the house I lived in growing up. When I lived in the dorms, those were basically single rooms with a door. The hallway that everyone shared didn’t really count. My first apartment didn’t have a hallway. My second apartment, which was a 2 bedroom that I shared with roommates, had almost all the rooms off of the entryway so there wasn’t a hallway. And my last place pretty much flowed from one room to another without a hallway. Now, I have a little hallway off of my living room that leads to the bedrooms and bathrooms. It’s a weird thing to be excited about, but I am. It makes it feel more like a home and less like an apartment, which I know some condos can really feel like.
I also still get a kick out of having a little yard in the back. It’s not private, but it’s still green space when I look out of my living room. While I would have loved to be on the top floor (and I think about that as I hear my neighbor upstairs sometimes), those units only have balconies and not yards. I get so much more space and I don’t have to look onto rooftops or powerlines. That’s something else that makes it feel like a home. And I was thinking the other day of the condo we looked at about 5 years ago that I loved. And something I loved about that unit was that it overlooked some grass and trees. It didn’t click with me until the other day that I got something that I loved so much at that other place I looked at.
And of course, having significantly better appliances is nice, but having appliances that I didn’t have before makes me smile all the time. Having water in my fridge instead of using a purifier pitcher makes my life so much easier and I never realized how much that difference would affect me. I lived without a dishwasher for 12 years and I wasn’t sure how much of a difference it would be to have one. But doing dishes after meals is so much easier since I just have to rinse them off instead of spending time doing dishes. And of course, having my own washer and dryer is one of the biggest game-changers for me. I don’t have to worry about getting quarters, I never have to wait for a machine, and I don’t have to worry about how I’m dressed while doing laundry since nobody else will see me.
I think that most of these things will keep bringing me joy since I’ve seen how I haven’t taken things for granted in other places I’ve lived. And it’s only going to continue to get better as I get myself settled in and finish creating the space I’ve been wanting to have since the first day I saw this condo. It’s getting closer and closer every day, but I’m at a bit of a standstill now because there is a chance that all my floors will need to be redone (I’ll write more about that when I know what’s happening). So I’m not getting more furniture that I’ve been planning on just yet. But I can still enjoy all these little things that make me happy and be so grateful for the joy that this home brings me.
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