Ok, so we’re not really moving, but it sure looks like we are! Our apartment is in shambles this morning! We are having our rugs cleaned this afternoon (we take spring cleaning very seriously! 
), so we needed to move as much stuff off the floor as we could for the cleaners. So, now all of our smaller furniture is on top of our bigger furniture until the rugs are finished. Although, this morning, it was actually kind of nice having a little extra room in the living room to do some strength training while catching up with my DVR episodes. 
And that was basically a tour of our entire apartment (minus the bathroom and very small dining area)! I like our cute, little apartment, but man, I am ready to move to something bigger!
Breakfast
I finally got around to making another batch of wheatberries last night, which was a nice surprise when I remembered them this morning. I honestly love wheatberries! They just add a little something-something to my morning bowl of oats! In the mix today was oats, wheatberries, pecans, banana, soy milk, and peanut butter.
With iced coffee…
Vote for Your Favorite Essay
As many of you know, I hosted a 31 Day Yoga Challenge for anyone who wanted to participate. Once the Challenge ended, I asked participants to submit an “essay” about their thoughts, insights, and reflexions into the Yoga Challenge and yoga, in general. I received 9 wonderful essays and I hope you will help me select 3 “winners” from the bunch. By “winners” I mean, three participants to receive one of three prizes: yoga DVDs or a yoga mat. So, if you would like to add your 2 cents, please read all 9 essays and select your favorite based on its thoughtfulness, sincerity, insight or whatever else personally resonates with you. The 3 essays that receive the most votes will win the prizes.
Step 1: Read essays
Step 2: Select your favorite essay by Friday, April 3.
Thanks for voting, guys! I’ll announce the winners on Saturday.
Question of the Day
What’s the smallest apartment/space you have lived in for an extended period for time (3+ months)? How did you deal with the lack of space?
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My dorm with 5 other girls, and someones boyfriend, who steels food, doesnt do dishes, and is a “no it all” It gets very cluttered and messy, I am still dealing with it…so Im handling the best I can, but usually Im the mom and clean up after everyone because I know its the only way I can be happy living here…you do what you have to =)
I agree about wheat berries – I should make another batch soon!
I was lucky enough to have large dorm rooms during college. During grad school, my fiance and I lived in Cambridge, then Somerville, and the Davis Square kitchen was teeny-tiny. We bought one of those stainless steel shelving units to store cookbooks & pots/pans. We got spoiled with our 3 bedroom house during the 1 1/2 years spent in Houston – now we’re back in a small Boston apartment, so we had to sell most of our things. It’s all worth it to be back, though!
Definitely dorm rooms…I’m still amazed how I shared such a small room with each of us in twin beds!!
But I’m house hunting now!
my first year of undergrad I lived in a dorm where the beds HAD TO be bunked. why? because there wasn’t enough room for them to fit side by side. Not as in “would be a lil tight” LITERALLY not enough room. My roommate also worked out everyday but only did laundry once a month. Let’s just say I had to use a lot of febreeze.
Ohh girl, I just love what you have done with the place! =) I live in a sorority house now with just one roommate (sharing an ACTUAL ROOM!) but last year we had three in a space about the size of your kitchen…it was not good news.
My current living situation: Dorm room with the dimensions of 6.5″ x 10″. Blah. How do I survive? I push everything as far away from the center as I can, then find ANY reason possible to leave my room ’til it’s time to sleep.
Have a great day Tina!
The apartment I am living in right now is the smallest place I have ever lived. Right when you walk in the door the kitchen table is right there, leaving you only about 2 feet to open the door. Its our only place to be social so we manage. I have 2 other roommates.
The best part! My room is a decent size, but my bathroom is a joke! I am 5’2” and I BARELY FIT in the bathroom. I can’t even spread my arms out and the shower is situated right behind the door. Its very snug, but I manage and don’t have to share, which is a plus.
There are always ways to deal with limited space.
On another note….I’ve never had wheatberries in oatmeal, but I’ve had them on their own and the taste seems like it wouldn’t go. I’m sure its good! How do you make them?
Smallest space I’ve lived in = a dorm room at Parsons School of Design in NYC.
dorm room @ college 2nd half of my freshman year
I lived in a small dorm room and then after graduation I moved to Killington, Vermont to work at a ski lodge for a season. That meant a teeny room with a roommate on a floor with 16 other people and two bathrooms. Yikes!
You’ll be moving soon…next year? It will fly by!
I lived in a 3 bedrrom trailer with 5 roomates for 8 months. The only thing that kept us sane was that we were a mile from the Gulf of Mexico.
We’ve gotta get our carpets cleaned too…thanks for the reminder!! I lived in a glorified studio for a year in downtown chicago, the worst part was that it took an hour to find parking every day!
My dorm room freshmen year, it was ridiculously small!
You’re apartment look really cute!
Our apartment in LA was 450 square feet, way too small for two adults and a 60 lb. dog. I dealt with it by forcing my husband to move across the country.
love the chair ON the bed
smallest place? Dorm rooms for sure. that was a pain!
My current apartment, at 550 square feet, has been just big enough for me for 4 1/2 years. But . . . my boyfriend will move in June 1st! I have a LOT of purging to do in order to make room for him!
Oh, me and small spaces are all i’ve ever had. I’ve always roomed with another person and my current living situation has me w/ two drawers for clothes and very very little closet space! half my clothes are still in my suitcase smashed under my bed!
Love the IKEA chair on the bed
Smallest living space… oh this sounds bad but back in the 90′s I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment at 60 sq feet.
The apartment/dorm I’m living in now is definitey the smallest. With 4 girls and 1 bathroom, I’m suprised we don’t have more time conflicts with the shower. We work it out!
I can’t wait to move into my new apartment this summer. It’s the CUTEST studio ever.
In college, I lived in the tiniest three bedroom apartment for TWO years! It was so small, we did not even have a living room. It was literally just three bedrooms and a bathroom off of a tiny kitchen. When we had friends over for a “party” we would cram a dozen people into a bedroom. Don’t know how we did it for two years!
My apartment right now is a LITTLE studio: 350 square feet. It’s not so bad because I am at work all day, and I like to go for runs, get to the gym, etc … needless to say I am so glad that is is warming up and I can have more excuses to get out!! To make the most of my space, I pretty much told myself that I can only have what I love here! It’s pretty refreshing that I like everything in my closet! Also I have some kitchen items (food processor, blender, etc) in my linen closet
My roommate and I just celebrated our 3rd anniversary living in a 320 square foot apartment. That is right — 320 sq feet for 2 people. No closets. Can you imagine my life these last 3 years?!
When I first moved in with my (now) fiance, we lived in his tiny “junior one bedroom”. We called it the hovel. It was so small – hallway, common room, tiny bathroom and tiny kitchen. We couldn’t stand in the kitchen together. We lived there for 6 months together and it was a great “test” of our relationship. We loved one another so much that we didn’t mind tripping over one another all the time.
When we moved into our (current) apartment it was so strange! We had so much space, even the cat didn’t know what to do with himself.
I would have to say that living in a dorm was the worst. A living space the size of a bedroom, shared with a person you don’t like? Yikes. Completely different type of situation, but it is hard to not have space to do the things you need to do.
My apt is teeny tiny lol…I have absolutely NO COUNTER SPACE! my kitchen is a wall in my living room lol…it is cute but SMALL =) (I am hating you right now lol..I love your kitchen)
Dorm room for sure! 12x16ft. Yes, I measured. But luckily I love my roommates so it all works out. The most irritating thing, though, is being on different sleep schedules. It also makes doing yoga alone more difficult!
My apartment is around 900 square and looks very similar to yours. I also want to move into something bigger!
Our first year out of college, Bill and I lived in a STUDIO apartment in DC. It was 500 square feet! Our living room was our dining room/office/bedroom and guest room at once.
Knowing that we survived that year, I’m pretty sure we can survive anything.
@Rose: 900 sf would be heaven!
I am spring cleaning this weekend. I can’t wait!
Ah living in a small space can be hard, because I need an ample amount of room to have all my stuff. Plus, I’m messy. LOL
I am also currently living in my smallest space ever – 400 square feet. It’s a shotgun, and poorly made, but charming. I live with my boyfriend and cat. What makes it work? Having two porches, a garden, and storage solutions. Outdoor space makes it feel bigger. It’s worth it to live where I live.
In my first year of law school I had a one roo studio. No bed. Just a futon! It was only me and my cat (litter in the tub), so it wasn’t that bad.
I lived in a 625 sq. ft. apartment in Lincoln Park, Chicago and boy was it tight! luckily, i lived there alone and got very creative with storage. i always use the shoe storage pieces that hang on back of a door to keep the shoes organized and off the floor!I also learned the mantra…”if I have not worn this ‘X’ in the past year… I never will” and then toss it!
i love the placement of furniture
i wonder how people would respond if you hosted a dinner party and had the furniture arranged like that!
I’ve lived in a shared townhouse with 3 others for 4 years…maybe 1000 sq ft? Or sharing a 200sq foot dorm with a roommate. My condo is 1 bedroom but it’s open enough and great for 2 people.
My husband, myself, our daughter and 2 dogs lived in a 600 sq. ft. house for about 5 years until the end of last year. We remodeled and added about 330 sq. ft. It feels like a palace! I would highly recommend under the bed boxes, shelving where you can and racks for storage. That’s what helped make it through for us.
The smallest place I lived was my dorm room for 8 months of school. It was a room, with a bed, desk, sink, mini fridge, and a shared bathroom. I survived, simply because I had to. Plus I didn’t have much of my stuff there with me anyways, since I was only going to be at that school for 8 months.
When my husband and I first started living together, we moved into a 670 sf loft in Downtown Portland – no walls, and the only door inside the apartment was to the bathroom. As an only child who was living alone before we moved in together, it was quite an adjustment!
Oooo lucky duck! I’m trying to convince my husband to let us get a professional spring cleaning at our house, but I don’t think he’s quite on board yet!!!!
gosh I got behind on my blogs for a few days and missed the whole opportunity to submit an essay! Oh well, the whole challenge was phenomenal for me and I plan to keep on doing yoga, now that I’ve realized how wonderful it makes me feel. So thanks for geting this challenge going!
Tiniest living space=my freshman dorm room. It was a single made into a double…you do the math. We lofted our beds to make room and put our beds underneath.