Wednesday, August 08, 2007
The New Apartment
We haven't shown any photos of our new place since we found it. But we are moved in now. It will takes months to settle in all the way, but our possessions are nicely distributed and we're well into personalizing our living space!Jane has cupboards on her kitchen walls and nails to hang the utensils on. I've still got to hang the shelf on the wall for the microwave, but otherwise that's one room "done."
The central hallway has filled up with cabinets / buffet kinds of furniture. We picked up a couple from here and there. One came from the Sindlers; another from old Apartment B at the Phare. We had so much built in storage at the Phare. We've cleaned out lots of stuff, but still... A pack rat has to have somewhere to store things!One nice thing is that the hall way is really more like a long narrow room. We find ourselves doing a lot of living in it. In fact, because of the way the wind flows through the house, if the power is out, this is the place to be. In fact, Frankie and Anna spent part of one very hot night on mattresses on this hall floor when the electricity disappeared.
We really appreciate our inner courtyard. It's an atrium open to the sky off the main hall. It is screened over the top, so we don't have mosquito swarms descending on us. But we do get a wonderful breeze and ventilation to the kitchen and inner bedrooms. Frankie and Anna and Jane went out one day and brought back plants to put on the window awnings. It makes this space feel even more vertical. I hope to hang some plants at several other levels to draw your eye upwards. What a wonderful inside garden it makes.We've put the Moroccan table and stools out there. (Allison picked it up at a moving sale several years ago. It has a large engraved copper plate in the center of a wooden frame.) That started in the living room as an experiment, but there just wasn't enough space for it and the couch and all. So now it is decorating the atrium.
So, we're settling in and each of us is finding his favorite spot. Jonathan looked for the best place for reading his latest novel. Mom and Dad's waterbed is so much more inviting than his own somehow!
The cat, Puzzle, seems to aim at a higher goal in life: making the rest of us laugh.Yes, that is a laptop computer!
