Our "new" bedroom

Finally, after three months of waiting, the bedroom got new wallpaper. During the inspection that was done before we started to rent the apartment, it was decided that the wallpapers in the bedroom was too bad (as you can see to the left). We had to call the landlord a few times before anything happened.
We opted for a wallpaper with some pattern, since the wallpaper in the other rooms have hardly any pattern. All of them go in mild and pale colors.

Finally, two armchairs

Before we arrived in the apartment, we didn't know how much space we would have for an extra sofa or armchair. Therefore, we didn't buy anything to bring with the load of furniture from southern Sweden. Having spent some time here now, we realized that another arm chair would be perfect for the living room. The problem was that we needed a car to bring it home (unless you would like to carry it for a really long distance, not so fun). But, since that was solved a couple of days ago, we decided to order the chair and today it was time to pick it up. We had booked a trailer, but we didn't need it, the box fit in the trunk of the car.
Then the big assembly party started. It was a lot of screws to fasten before the chair looked like the one in the store, and we guess it might have been quite difficult to do it alone. A couple of hours later we could relax in one armchair each for the first time.

Plants at home

After work today, we met outside a flower shop. High time to fill the window shelves with some plants. Maria is more into green plants, since they are usually easier to handle and, not the least, last longer (nice looking all year around). The shop wasn't big, so it was a little bit tricky finding plants being able to withstand direct sun light. Our living room has the windows towards south, so the sun can get strong there. We left the shop with four different plants, all of them new kinds for us. The coffee plant might not give beans, but is a little bit fun to have. The myrtle plant will hopefully get small white flowers later on. The one most to the far right is a funny looking one, a milk bush (Euphorbia tirucalli). The tall one is the easy-to-handle mother-in-law's tongue.
Together with the four smaller plants (Kalanchoë and ponytail palm "flasklilja") we found during the weekend, we now have plants in the kitchen and living room. We'll get plants for the other rooms later on, maybe we will bring some of our old ones from the southern during the summer vacation.
Right now the plants are not so big, but we will see how they look 5-10 years from now. According to the handling information about the species, several of the plants are actually big plants, not really suitable for the window shelf in the long run.

TV and microwave oven arrive

The TV and microwave oven that we ordered in the beginning of the week arrived tonight. The TV was delivered to the door, but we had to get the oven at a store a couple of hundred meters from our apartment. Not to bad, the bike is a good transportation device if you are two people. The microwave oven is quite deep, but we managed to fit it on the bench. The TV on the other hand is a LCD which makes it quite thin. I guess it is hard to find an ordinary CRT TV these days.

Boxes away and curtains up

Good Friday in Sweden means holiday, so Maria was home from work and together we made a huge effort to prepare our apartment for normal living. What else to do when you wake up to snowy trees, even if most of it melted away during the day.
We spent half of the day removing all the boxes from the apartment (temporary stored in our bathroom), to our small storage in the basement. It's a puzzle to get as many small boxes as possible into the bigger ones.
After lunch we cleaned the floor and placed rugs, which really helps for comfort. We also put up curtains in the last two windows.

Microwave oven - end of life

Our microwave oven, that had been stored with all the other stuff for two years, ceased to work today. Suddenly, it started to sound very noisy, and there was a smell of smoke inside of it. We chose not to use it any more since then, and it is therefore about time to order a new one. It is actually about nine years since we bought the old one, so I guess it is written of now.

A weekend full of unpacking stuff

Saturday started with unpacking boxes/bags in the bedroom. A easy place to start, since the wardrobes have plenty of shelves. Maybe we will rearrange some time later when we've found out a better order, but at least be we have somewhere to store all our clothes/towels/fabrics etc. Another reason to start with the bedroom was to make place for the beds, so we would be able to sleep our first night in our new apartment.
Next room to get some order was the kitchen, the main question was just in which cabinet to put what.
Already after this first day we had released we now have more cabinets than we had in our earlier Swedish apartment. So now we have more shelves to use for other stuff.