the apartment, part 1

Now that my mom came to town (woohoo!) I finally cleaned the whole house all at once. Quite a task. Before a whirlwind hits again, I snapped some pictures so you can finally see the place...six months after we moved in.

It's an extremely strange layout, and there are some big spaces that are kind of giant hallways, rather than actual rooms, but we've used them as rooms, and haven't figured out what to call them. So they're more like "this corner" and "that area." Well, here goes. I'll start where you walk into the house and move from there.

You walk up a steep, narrow, 18-step staircase to be greeted by...shoes. How exciting.



Then as you turn around to face the room instead of the wall, you see one of the "halls" that doesn't really have a name.



If you walk to the other side of the "hall," you find our art corner, part 1 and part 2.





Standing in between the art corners, and facing back toward the entryway, you see this:



In the middle of this hall is a great sky light, which brings in a lot of natural light and nourishes this great plant we inherited from the previous residents. If you are still standing in the spot the above picture shows, right behind you is a gigantic closet with two parts. One we use as a utility/miscellaneous closet



and one as a clothes closet.



Also in that area we've designated a "sports shelf," to keep our climbing, baseball, basketball, and biking equipment handy.



Of near the shoes, there's a room that in the past has been used as both a bedroom and an office. Currently, it's a multi-purpose room, holding my desk (this is where I labored to finish my thesis):



the "maker corner," where we keep every odd bit of junk to take apart and rebuild into new things:



and the computer our employers keep for job purposes, but that we rarely use (not that we don't work--we do, just use our computer instead):



More in another post...