A new place to call home

Day 341

Back in January, we bought a place in Coquitlam because we were sick of our tiny rental in downtown. While I love the location of our current place, we knew we had to move on and because places in downtown are super expensive, we decided to move to suburbia. I kind of hinted about the move back in this post, but I never actually got around to talking about it... I did talk lots about shopping for our new place though ;)

Anyway, so we bought an almost 1000 square foot, 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom apartment in Westwood Plateau. I grew up around the area and it really is a great community for families. There are lots of good schools nearby for future kids and its also close to grocery store and Coquitlam Centre, etc.

Today, we picked up the keys from our realtor. It was so awesome! We literally bought this place almost two months ago, and even though we took lots of pictures, you almost forget what the place actually looks like. It was nice to see it again ;)

We met our realtor around 2pm, and they left around 2:30. We hit up Target to buy a few things we forgot to bring to clean the house. We had planned to spend a good few hours to clean the place since it was a great time to do so - there was no furniture in this place whatsoever. We also decided to move Kiwi and Chaos in today because I didn't want to have to bring them during the what is likely going to be a stressful move on Saturday. For now, they are chilling out in the master bedroom walk in closet (it'll be nice and cozy in there for them!)

I gave the fridge and bathrooms a good scrubbing down. Bobby mopped all of the floors and cleaned the windows. We were smart and brought some dishes and glasses, so while we were cleaning, I ran the dishwasher twice to wash those... and now they are spic and span for Saturday ;)

Below are pics for the new place... a place that is going to be a work in progress until we truly make this new apartment our home :)

Bobby brought Kiwi and Chaos in to work today... He came and got me around 1pm at my work and we drove to Coquitlam. When we got to the new place, I decided to give Kiwi a "driving lesson" while we waited for our realtor ;)

Bobby in our new kitchen. YES! Finally lots of counter space and cupboards (this kitchen is huge compared to downtown, Vancouver standards ;)

Dining room and living area (sorry the pic is dark!) The neon green room is a bedroom (more below)

This is the smallest bedroom and will be Bobby's future work area. He has lots of plans for this room 

This is the second biggest room and will be a future kid's room. For now, it will be Marco's domain

This is Bobby's bathroom/the main bathroom

Master bedroom. I love that nook area!

This is the master bathroom... Finally! We will no longer have to share a bathroom ;)

Kiwi exploring Marco's room... she was super excited!!

Now, we are back in downtown, exhausted from all of the cleaning. There is still some packing left to do! But I need to relax and rest (and blog!) first!