Apartment Tour

You might be wondering about our living situation.....so here's a visual!!

This is our neighborhood.

This is a house ( near our neighborhood.

This is the front of our apartment building. Then, the back!

Now, for the inside! I know you weren't expecting such a greeting in the tub :) This is our shower room (equipped with a tub, sink and tile floor...remember, we have a shower head glued above the window, when we want a cold shower...mostly for the summer months).



Next door to the shower room is our toilet room.

This is how a Japanese toilet has been converted to a Western-style toilet. First...you can see...this is a typical "hole-in-the-floor" type of toliet.

Then, you've got the Western-style toilet seat converter to put on top.

Now to the kitchen! haha, great transition! Even though the kitchen (and appliances) might be a lot smaller than most, we can still cook and bake normally!! We continue to practice lots and lots of patience.

And here's our lovely, (yet cheesy) model, Brandon, wanting to take credit for the chocolate chip cookies I made!

This is our living room, equipped with a love seat (turns into a bed) and a kotatsu table (it's a coffee table, but also used in the winter time for heating. this website has a good picture of that kind of purpose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu ). I've put some pictures (from the wedding) in frames, as well.

If you thought I left turquoise back at home, you were wrong! haha, I've got to at least try to incorporate it....in every room (if you haven't noticed!).

We've received some mail and postcards while we've been here...so we periodically add that to our room decor!

Here's the gigantic TV we watch in our bedroom! haha, actually, we don't mind it (we're either watching a movie on that, or our laptop). We've pretty much ruled-out Japanese T.V.

Last, but not least: our office. To the left of our printer....is our closet.

So, that's our place, in a nutshell. It's pretty spacious compared to most places and a family of four (who live below us) have the same layout. We're pretty happy with it!