Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2008

.::New House Pictures::.

FINALLY! Here are some pictures! I did find one disadvantage to my new lens that I usually love--something about the focal length makes it so I can't get very good shots of small rooms. So you'll have to bear with me and use your imagination a bit, ok?
Here's the front porch, with Kris on the way out.
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It's not the kind of porch you can hang out on like our last house, but that will discourage leering obnoxious neighbors, so that's ok.
Here's the living room, looking in from the dining room.
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you can't see too much here, but maybe this can give you the idea that the living room is kind of long and narrow--three windows looking out to the street with a radiator below. The couch is facing the windows....and the next picture will help to illustrate some of the rest of the room.
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We've got our TV and bookshelves on the wall there that you can see. Behind the chair Kris is sitting in is kind of an entry way--well by that I just mean a clear area heading in from the front door. On the back wall we have Max's little desk and his computer between a couple of windows.
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We have double front doors, and by that I mean there's one leading in from the outside, then a small entry and another front door leading straight into the living room. I like it.
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Here's the kitchen--please ignore the clutter. We were still unpacking the kitchen I guess. I like the glass cupboards. It's fun to get to show a few pretty kitchen things off.
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It's really hard for me to get a better angle and show you much, but you get the idea I hope. The counters are nice!
I was going to post a picture of the nasty gross loud fridge, but since we finally talked the landlord into getting us a NEW ONE I figured that was old news. We should have a new one there by the time we get back from our trip, yay!!
Here's one of the other corners of the kitchen. You can see the pantry in this shot. I love the pantry!
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Max's room with his new bed:
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I hope he likes the bed. It looks good in his room and takes up less space than his old one. And now we can use his old one for guests. It's a good deal.
This is a shot of his room from the doorway. You can see part of his rocking chair (technically it's MY rocking chair, but he thinks it's his. Whatever works)
you can see his new ikea rug that I think is so cute, and his dresser with the new drawer pulls we just barely put on. Oh yeah, and the lovely radiator that takes up the whole wall. So weird!
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For our room I really couldn't get a good angle at all, so you just get to see little pieces. Here's part of the bed and the awesome nightstand that goes with the bed. We could only really afford one, so we're saving up for the one that goes on the other side.
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Here's our cool new bedspread on our cool new comforter duvet thing from ikea.
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Our dresser that matches the bed.
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I couldn't get any very good shots of the guest room or the dining room. I guess you'll just have to visit us to see those.
Here are a couple extra tidbits for you though.
This is Kris and the red Grover in our lovely driveway that's supposed to be able to fit five cars. We'll see about that. I'm just glad we were in the place first. The upstairs people will be moving in at the beginning of June. Hopefully that means get some sort of claim on the driveway. We'll see.
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The problem is that in Providence proper nobody's allowed to park on the street overnight. That could be hard to get used to! Kris already left the car on the street one night until he woke up suddenly at 4 because he thought he heard a tow truck. He ran out there and luckily the car was still there, with no ticket. We probably won't be as lucky the next time!
Finally here's a shot of the street in front of our place, which tends to be rather busy, and more importantly the marvelous toy store that's just kitty corner from our front door. Max will be in heaven.
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So there you go. You got the VIP tour. We like the place and we think it's going to be really fun. Come and visit!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

.::Found::.

So we have a place to live in Providence now.
One of the wives of a current resident at Kris's hospital was sweet enough to go visit a couple of places for me and send pictures. Luckily one of the apartments she saw we really liked, and the landlord was willing to work with us and hold it until May.
Here is a quick pictorial tour, and by the time you're done with it you'll know as much about our new place as we do! It's a 3 bed 1 bath apartment.
It's in downtown Providence, in an area really near a couple of colleges (Brown and RISD). There's lots of fun activity and walking culture in this area and we really like it.
Here's the outside.
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There's an apartment on the 1st floor and one on the second floor. Both are vacant right now so we were lucky enough to score the 1st floor. Which I think is good because nobody deserves to live under both Max and Sultan. Yikes.
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Parking is right here on the side of the house. Luckily we're already used to parking in the "elements", so that won't be too much of a change. At least there's parking for two cars at all! In this area of town that's actually kind of rare.
Here's a shot of the front room looking out from the dining room area:
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It looks nice, don't you think? Clean and stuff. It's really similar to our current house as far as the way it looks, and probably in age as well.
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Here we're looking into the dining room from one of the bedrooms. I'm glad the walls are already painted colors I either like or can live with, it's nice.
Here's the bathroom:
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yea, it looks pretty much just the same as our current bathroom, and yeah, we're going to have to share with Max for another couple years which is definitely a bummer, but oh well. At least it looks clean right now!
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Here's one of the bedrooms. All three bedrooms have closets, which is great! And they look like they're ok sized.
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This is Sultan's yard. We're very pleased at the idea of the nice big privacy fence, which should cut down on midnight sessions of barking at cats. And it'll be a nice place for both Max and Sultan to have fun in, when not covered in cold snow.
And last but CERTAINLY not least, the kitchen!
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I'm excited about it. I think it looks so nice. So much nicer than our current kitchen for sure!
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It's been remodeled in the last couple of years which is great.
I'm really excited. We love the area the place is in and it looks like a we're going to love it.
What do you think?