Moving notes
We have moved everything that was inside our previous apartment to our new home. It's taken a few days. Because we decided to move slowly, we used only our hands and a bike. Each day, we went to the old apartment around 5 times. There are a few things left in the storage space in the old apartment. Here in the Nordic homes, it is very common to have such storage spaces. Though I've never used them myself, my partner has some sentimental items there such as his father's artworks.
We brought the bed frame to the storage space in the new apartment. We don't yet know what we will do with it, but we plan to live without it and simply have our mattress on the floor. Into our space we invited a chest (in the picture above) that my partner inherited from his grandparents. We didn't use the chest in the previous apartment, but somehow it looks beautiful and grounding in this space. In our new apartment, we have even fewer items of furniture. We brought the table, 4 chairs, the bench, and my partner's child's bed. This space feels so light. It felt wonderful (though at times also challenging) to move everything ourselves, to be present with each object we live with, to appreciate nature's embodiment in these objects. There is no lift in the building, so we carried everything to the top floor.
Like in our previous home, we will not have any decorations apart from some stones we brought home. We will not have any curtains either to be able to live with the sun's light and nature's rhythms. We decided not to have any light fixtures on the ceilings.
In our bedroom, there is only the mattress that serves as our bed. There is also some build-in storage that came with the apartment.
In the space that is the kitchen and the living room, we only have the table that serves as both our dining table and our desk, the chest, the bench, 4 chairs. There is a drying rack, a yoga mat and a meditation cushion. There is also one lamp.
In my partner's child's bedroom, there is only her bed, a lamp, and my partner's guitar.