New apartment tour!
This isn't the apartment, obviously, it's a picture of the breakfast I got at the coffee shop across the street on my first morning there. All that (including the chai) cost about $7.50. Yum!
This is the entryway. That's the front door ahead, and to the left you have a coat closet, and to the right a teeny little closet for linens. The door on the right that has a knob is the bathroom. I think I forgot to take a pic of that bathroom, but it's basically the same as the master bath, except it has a bathtub instead of a shower and it has a little door leading to the water heater and the washing machine.
I LOVE MY WASHING MACHINE. It's enormous even though it's in this tiny closet, and I just discovered that it plays a song for me when it finishes washing. Check this out:
Click to viewFUCK YES.
Here's the entry from further back, so you can see the little hall that ends up at the living room. By the way, that wood pillar is actually a load-bearing structure I believe. They left it exposed because it's part of the aesthetic- this is a converted 19th-century factory building and there's not much point if you don't leave some of the industrial features. That high ledge on the left is the den, and the boxes in the left foreground are sitting on the kitchen counter.
The kitchen has all new stainless steel appliances. Also, a SMOOTH TOP STOVE. I have been lusting for one of these things for years. There's also more cupboard space than at the last place, and a LOT more counter space. I'M SO HAPPY.
Stepping back into the entry for a second- sorry for the glare- this is just to show the entrance to the den. This place has huge lofted ceilings, and to add some visual interest rather than just closing off a den, they set it on a raised platform with half-walls. So there's 3-4 steps there going up to the den area. Further down the hall past the kitchen is the living room. There's a door into the bedroom (which IS totally separated) just before that bookcase on the left.
You can see from the positioning of the furniture that these pics were taken on different days.
kyabetsu pointed out that the desk looked stupid set against the lower wall facing the hallway, so I rotated it to sit against the higher wall that separates the den and the kitchen.
The other side of that wall consists of the upper kitchen cabinets, which should give you an idea of its height relative to the 'ground floor.' Kismet has the traditional feline love of high places, and sitting on this wall makes her pretty much the tallest thing in the apartment, with a good view of the entire main room.
Here's the rest of the den- I was standing on the stairs to take this photo. Obviously taken the first day, before the filing cabinet got moved over to by the desk. But those bookcases are staying there.
To the right of the bookcases, on the wall opposite the desk, are a series of closets. There are four of those folding doors, but really it's all one big closet space about 2.5 feet deep.
This photo is crap but it gives a bit of an idea of how deep the closets are. That top shelf goes the whole length of the space, and the second shelf stops halfway. There's a clear 6 inches between those plastic tubs and the close door when it's closed.
Gratuitous cat photo! Kismet with a stuffed owl and a tiny moose.
Unfortunately all the photos of the living room are kind of crap: partly because of the light coming from those huge-ass windows, and partly because the room is so full of random crap you can't really tell what's going on. I'll take more photos when I arrange the furniture properly. This is taken from the kitchen, looking over the half-wall on the side with the sink and dishwasher. I really love this layout- the kitchen is definitely a separate room, but you can still watch tv or interact with people in the living room.
This photo is shit, sorry. It's also a tad confusing because it was taken earlier than the other one, so it looks like the futon frame has moved several feet. Mostly I'm just using it to show you the exposed brick walls on the front and right-hand side of the living room. Another preserved feature from the building's history as a factory. There are also some neat arched recesses in that side wall, and one is pretty clear in this pic. (There's another in the back corner of the kitchen behind the fridge, but you can't really see it in the photos.) They've painted the bricks a sort of light peachy-beige color. Which I could have done without, but hey. I guess they figured it looked cleaner painted.
Finally, the bedroom. Again, this whole area is on the left of the living room as you face the windows, and unlike the den it's full enclosed. As you go in, you're facing the walk-in closet with the door to the bathroom on the left and the bedroom proper on the right.
More exposed brick! Also my bed still isn't made up, but summer is too hot for sheets anyway, lol. The great thing about this room, aside from the shape (which I love), is that the windows face west, so I get a lot of lovely light in the late afternoon and evening (which is when I'm home most days anyway) but the sun doesn't blast me awake in the morning. The only problem is that this room has a tendency to get rather warmer than the rest of the apartment. But since I mainly only use it for sleeping, and I routinely sleep with the fan pointed at me even in winter, it's not that big a deal.
Finally, here's the bathroom. There's a bit more counter space than the last place, and the shower is significantly bigger. Plus, I happen to like the sliding door. The shower at the last place was too small, and it was fronted by a curtain that was always billowing and spilling water on the floor, so this is a nice change. Like I said before, the guest bathroom that opens off the hall is very similar- the toilet/sink area is exactly the same, but the bathtub is set next to the toilet.