As you "walk" in, you'll see the living room to your immediate right and the kitchen and dining room straight ahead. You'll also notice my husband who is relishing in the unnatural relationship between a man and an ugly, leather recliner. This picture doesn't do it justice, but take my word for it... it has gold rivets... it's ugly. (But also free, so who's complaining?)To your right is a sliding-glass door leading to the patio. I won't be showing a picture of that as it has vertical blinds and vertical blinds violate the very essence of my being.
Passing through the door on your right, we have the bedroom. Since we haven't added window treatments or pictures or anything remotely personal, really, it looks a little bare, but it works for the moment.The one thing I do appreciate about this room (and the whole apartment, really) is the large window, which lets in a great deal of light. After living in our first apartment (which was located approximately three feet away from another building) we appreciate all the natural light we can get!
Next up is the master bath, which is probably the smallest master bath in the history of real estate, but, again, works for us.There's not too much to say about this room, but enjoy looking at our Cities-of-the-World bathroom set, which we quite like.
(Oh, and another feature we enjoy is the curved shower curtain rod, which I'm pretty sure expands our showering space by several yards.)
Back through the living room, we make a stop at our beautiful, beautiful kitchen and dining room. There's not a ton of cabinet space (which makes for some interesting demonstrations in grocery organization), but we love the open space between the kitchen and living room, so we deal with it. We have pretty stainless steel and black appliances and nice granite (or granite-like, probably) countertops. I especially like our "bar" (which consists of a martini shaker and ice bucket next to our ultra-cool globe-shaped liquor dispenser) and our gas (yes, gas!) stove.(By the way, for those of you who are trying to decide whether or not to visit our new apartment, the globe-shaped liquor dispenser will house a whole helluva lot of Captain just as soon as we have money to spend on liquor and not, say, fuel.)
Through the door in the kitchen is the laundry room which you won't see since I'm embarrassed to own a washer and dryer that are older than I am.
Heading right from the dining room (left from the front door) is a hall which leads to the guest bathroom. There's the sink area of the guest bath (with the cool bambooish bathroom set that we got for our wedding), to the left,
then there's the actual bathroom area of the guest bath (to the right), which includes another cool curved shower curtain rod (so, another pro on the "deciding whether or not to visit Bryan and Laura's apartment" tally.)I'm not quite sure why I thought you needed to see so many pictures of our bathroom (and our guest bathroom at that), but you get them anyway.
Finally, just opposite the bathroom is the guest room/office/man-cave/Roomba's bedroom. (Roomba is our vacuum cleaner. Our relationship got off to a rocky start, so I tried giving it its own bedroom... it seems to be working, but that may be short-lived since we just bought a second cheap vacuum for quick clean-ups. I'm not sure he's noticed yet.)
We don't particularly use this room very often, but, again, I enjoy the large window and the VERY large closet which has allowed us to keep all of our belongings at our apartment and not in my sister's basement. This concludes our home-tour for the day. I hope all of you will consider visiting us at some point. (Please note that there is a queen size bed in the guest room, as long as you're willing to share with Roomba. Or vice-versa.)
Happy Columbus Day!
