Home Sweet Home

We went over to the new house today so we could get some photos, put together an inventory list of furnishings, and clean the flat surfaces.

We'll have a bit of a walk from the tram to our place.  Happily, much of the walk is through this wonderful canopy of trees and plants.  There's an old stone wall along a portion of the path - I'm assuming from a farm or something that used to be on the land.

This is a photo of our front door, as well as the view from the front door.  There's construction happening in the distance so they've dumped some dirt in the field.  But most of this space is flowers and wild grasses.  Windows in the living room and dining area look out in this direction, so the cats will probably enjoy this view.

This is the view from the front door.  There's part of the staircase.  Behind the door is a powder room.

Here's the living room.  This area is HUGE.  As I told the letting agent, this room itself is nearly as big as our combined living room/dining area/kitchen in the apartment.

Here is the dining area and the kitchen.  It'll be so nice to be able to move around in the kitchen while the other person is sitting at the table.  Currently, the dining table is about two feet from the kitchen space so when you want to use the microwave or get into the fridge, you either have to work around the other person or the other person needs to move.

Here's part of the back garden.  The grass is artificial turf so there won't be too much maintenance.  To the left of this area, there's a bricked patio slab so we'll be able to put a small bistro table and a couple chairs out there.  I don't know if they allow bird feeders that might attract pests, but I hope to put out a birdbath and maybe some potted plants.

Here's the other half of the staircase and the view from the top of the steps.  I hope the cats don't get any ideas about jumping up on that half wall because it's a bad drop onto the stairs.  You can see the main bathroom at the top of the steps.  It has a tub but it's so narrow that, unless I lose a lot of weight, I won't be able to take a bath because I won't fit.

We have three bedrooms, all looking out over the field.  The middle photo is of the smallest bedroom, and we're thinking that will be the cats' room.  We'll probably put the litter box and cat tree in here.

This is the ensuite bathroom in the larger bedroom.   It has a rainfall shower head as well as a handheld so that'll be pretty cool.

This is a second path from the house.  This leads to a sidewalk that goes down to the tram platform.  There's some vagrant in that second photo.  Not sure how he got in there.  🤣