yay! new apartment! much as we love our rue st. placide apartment, chris and i can hardly wait for a place we can walk around without bumping our heads and can actually share a bed... yeah, don't think i posted on how we can't both sleep in the bed because one side of it is slanted and will seriously mess up your back. so i sleep in the bed and chris on the futon, which he actually loves. what was that about paris being romantic????
anyway the romance of home will definitely return in this place. it's very particulière, unique, dare i say bohemian. it may be hard to put it all together so there's a key below...
photo 1: the entryway - i'm standing next to the kitchen doorway to get this shot. the door is forward on the right; on the left are closets; and in the right foreground is the "bathroom" washbasin.
photo 2: kitchen - you could see the tiles of the kitchen doorway in photo 1, there are 2 steps down into it, and it is fully equipped. there's a thick glass ceiling to the kitchen that lets natural light in, and it is big enough to seat several people while cooking.
photo 3: bathroom/multi-purpose area - come back up the kitchen steps and instead of turning right (back to the doorway) you stay straight and are in this area. left to right you have the toilet room, shower, then stale (chris's boss who came to the signing with us just to make sure we understood everything). behind stale is a bathtub formerly owned by ingrid bergman (uh-huh, that's right), and finally there's a stand with the tv on the right wall.
photo 4: the tub deserves it's own pic, right?
photo 5: loft bed - come around full circle in the multi-purpose area (i.e. further to your right from picture 4) and you have the stairs leading up to our loft bed, which is actually quite comfortable. there's just enough room to sit up in it.
photo 6-7: living room - the pics of the living room don't do it justice. it's huge and beautiful with lots of seating and a table big enough for entertaining! this was truly the only apartment we looked at that had such room. the big windows look out onto a very busy street, but miraculously when they're closed you can't hear a thing.
photo 8: guest bed / couch / cuddle area - you can also see the loft bed above.
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Amazing! Simply amazing! Congratulations... I'm guessing that the walking tour of Paris is what helped you find this incredible place. Welcome Home :)
Adorable! I love your new place! The loft bed – what a great idea – & space saver. I saw a program recently on the Ntl Geographic Ch about how the Japanese have revolutionized the use of space in their typical tiny apartments. Actually got some good ideas since one can never have enough storage space in which to organize ones crap! Looks like the French have done a great job of maximizing space also.
I’m trying to figure out how I could put a glass ceiling in my entire house like in your kitchen. If it were possible I’d live in an actual “glass house.” Windows, window & more windows is my moto for a home (oh yeah, & NO kitchen!) But I still wouldn’t be opening any of those windows in my lingerie ... unless of course I did a lot more “exercise like a french woman” & found myself with those thighs of nicole richie that you spoke of.
Enjoying your blog. I tried one ... actually I’ve tried about 5 different sites. Have never kept it up. Maybe I should give it another go. One question ... will I be needing a good French-English dictionary or web site the longer you guys are there? I sucked in HS French so came to hate it. Now everything I learned has been locked away in the brain’s “junk closet” where things I don’t want to remember go to rot. Now just seeing or hearing French is scary. Goes to show what happens when you lock things away in the junk closet. They come out looking like the boogy man! ☺
Later ... Aunt Jeanie – une femme qui ne s'adonne qu'aux loisirs, or une femme qui ne s'adonne qu'aux petits plaisirs de la vie! (I may not speak French but I'm very adept at cut-&-paste.)
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