NAFASI THE BLOG

So right away during our first week here, we took a trip to Kigali (the capitol which is about 2.5 hours away by car.) You can get a lot more variety with purchases there and we figured we needed a LOT! Mostly what we needed was convertors for the walls so we could charge our computers and phones and everything, plants to decorate with, and then just basic household items like dish ware and that. It was fun. Tiring at times too, but really fun. This is us checking out. We got wine glasses, water glasses, mugs, plates, bowls, bathroom mats, pots, a pan, hangers. Hangers were important to get us out of our suitcases and into our closets! This trip really helped us settle in.  This is T-2000. It's basically like the Walmart of Kigali which has anything you can think of all shipped in from China All those hangers! Then they box it all up for you because it is illegal to use plastic here! We loaded up the car as you can see! The back of the truck was all filled wit...

During the whole design-the-apartment, and move-in-together-with-Patrick, and maintain-the-business part of my life I lost track of blogging. Now that we're all settled in though, I'll be telling the story from the past tense. :) Better late than never they always say, amiright!?  OK, so we left off on the #TTPATSHomeMakeover story with the last article, Pats Gets a Style Analysis where I realized my boyfriend who was becoming live-in , has nothing in common with me as far as living rooms .. Yikes.. So while trying to blend his modern, neutral, clean aesthetic, and my funky, bold, eclectic style I had a couple different color palettes to work with. We both really liked the look of clean white walls. The thought being that white walls will modernize the older architecture of the apartment. Great starting point! I also really like black and white, and knew he gravitated towards that as well. Now, the trick would be bringing in the main accent colors. It was between...