My apartment

On my sister’s request, I took pictures of the inside of my apartment. However, rather than emailing them to her, I figured I’d post them here for all to see. (You’ll have to get in the habit of checking the blog, Courtney!)

Before I start describing the weird parts of it, I will say that it is actually a decent size for “two room” apartment and for what I pay. The way the space is set up is so strange, though. The first room is the living room/dining room/bedroom. The second room is a little kitchenette and dead space.

Okay, so the first room….Here’s a picture of my "bedroom" part of the room.

The bathroom is to the left of the bed and is the same width as the width of the bed (and the length of the bathroom is probably twice the width). You can see the edge of the “living room” couch on the close side of the bookshelf.

Here's the "living room" part of the room from one side. Note the plant in the window - I guarentee it'll be dead before I leave for Christmas.

And, the tv (which gets 3 Swedish channels and 1 Finnish channel) is directly across from the couch. The open doorway next to the fake tree goes to the kitchen and the closed door is the bathroom again.

Here’s the part of the apartment that makes me laugh. The shower isn’t in the bathroom. The shower is a stall shower off of the living room. Literally, you step out of the shower onto a bathmat in the living room. I took this picture sitting on my living room couch. The shower door is plastic, fake frosted glass. So, basically, if two people are in the apartment, one on the couch and one in the shower, the person on the couch gets a show.To the left of the shower is the entrance way, the front door is hidden by the wall. You can see part of the “dining room” table in the close part of the picture. The doors on the right are closets.

When I said I had a little kitchenette, I did mean little! Here’s my 2-burner stove top, mini-fridge (bottom right, the bottom left is a cabinet), sink, and all of my counter space. I could barely back up enough to get this all in!

Here’s the other side of the kitchen, when I stand behind the ½ wall with the sink and stove. I don't have an oven but I do have a little microwave.

So there you have it. It's good for now but I'm on the waiting list for an apartment in a KI-associated complex. I'm sure I'll be ready to move by the time something there opens up (probably around April).