For those of you who have been here before, you know the routine, and for those of you who are new, hold on tight, grab some dry biscuits (always good for a bit of motion sickness) and join me on another long-winded post.
Firstly, I thought I'd start out by showing all you lovely people a little more of my teeny-tiny flat (since it's going to be the main star here), and some of it's problem areas...as I see them.
I was going to do a full expose on the frankly dingy state of my teeny-tiny flat (t-tf?). I got as far as taking a few photos (in all its messy glory) and then I made the mistake of actually looking at them...eeeeeww!!! Not a chance! There is NO-WAY I am posting those images online! They are too scary and embarrassing!
So I found some lovely 'empty' ones from the day I signed my lease and hurried over to do some excited-new-flat-cleaning, as well as the outside ones that I took the other day.
This is the outside of my block, you can see the raised ground floor where I am, as well as the windows of my upstairs neighbours. No, unfortunately the lovely bay window you can see there is not mine, but my neighbour's (who is equally as lovely as far as I can tell).
This is the approach to the main front door of my floor. The window you can see in front of you (no, to the left there) is my kitchen window, (big bugger isn't it?). I can stand on the windowsill and still not reach the top of it (yes, yes I know I'm on the short side, but there's no need to rub it in). The outside isn't terribly well cared for (that's rentals for you), but is something I hope I can start looking at once the inside is taken care of.
As this is a studio flat, there is only this main living / bedroom / office area. The small heater on the wall is no longer tagged and sealed off (thank goodness!). My first winter in the flat was freezing! A week later we had epic snowfalls in London, my first proper snow day, (hurrah!) and a chance to meet a lot of the local residents, realising what a lovely area I had moved into! I have a few glaring issues in this picture though, namely the colour of the walls, the blinds at the window and the colour of the carpet. I love the colour blue, in fact don't be too surprised if everything ends up blue, but I just don't like it for a carpet!
Standing at the lovely window above, looking into the flat, you can see the 'entrance hall' and front door (on the far left there), the kitchen in the middle (which is tiny but perfectly formed in my opinion), and my equally tiny (are we spotting a trend here?) bathroom on the far right.
This is the rest of the bathroom, with a strange 'storage' area above it. Have you noticed the ceilings? Well, more like the unbelievable height of the ceilings? 3.3m high baby!!...errm almost 9ft (I think) in old measurements.
As I've been waffling on for a while now, I'm going to leave it there for the time being. Next time I'll look at each of the areas in depth and tell you all about the issues I have with each of them (just what you need, someone explaining their 'issues' to you!). Until then, bye!
