Sunday, October 24, 2010

The new apartment


This is the entrance to the new apartment. The complex is called Wingdom, the only reason I remembered the name is because I thought of kingdom, but with a W. Our apartment is about 10 steps down inside those glass doors.

When you open the front door, there is a cabinet on the right. This is the cabinet that you put your shoes in. Then Koreans put on their house shoes. I don't know who learned from who, but this is sounding oddly like Mr. Rogers... To the left is the doorway into the apartment.

This is standing in the mud/shoe room looking into the apartment. The master bedroom is straight back.

To the right of the front door is the first bedroom. Right now it has a bed and an ironing board. The glass door is something that most if not all Korean homes and apartments have. Usually every room will have these. It is kind of like a patio. It has windows and tile floors. I don't know exactly, but you'll be seeing them often.

To the left of the front door is the kitchen. Out on the 'patio' is the dryer and a cabinet.

The sink in the kitchen. There is a drying rack hanging just above the sink. Also the open shelves on the right of the screen, that is where the microwave and rice cooker go.

The fridge (obviously). It is a normal fridge...

The dinning room table to the right is the fridge and the left is the shoe room.

The kitchen 'patio' has an American dryer. A dryer in a Korean home is an oddity. They don't like appliances that only do one thing (except for the rice cooker). They don't use coffee pots, they use instant coffee and either a tea kettle or a hot water dispenser. Usually their washers have a drying feature or they hang dry. I think that we will hang dry to cut down on the amount of energy we consume. Behind where Im standing is a cabinet. To the left near the ceiling are small windows and the door back to the kitchen is on the right.

Just past the first bedroom is the living room. There is an A/C unit in the corner, a couch, an ottoman, and 2 tables stacked. The tables will be unstacked and one will be a coffee table and one will be the TV stand. This 'patio' houses the washer and a drying rack that hangs from the ceiling.

Here is the washer on the 'patio'. The white cord with a black handle hanging from the ceiling has the drying rack attached to it. Also if you look at the back left corner of the washer near the ground you can see the drain pipe. There is a drain on the floor for the washer.
Behind the kitchen and off of the living room is the second bedroom. Currently it has a desk and a chair. There will be a twin bed going into this room, and possible the desk getting moved out. Possibly using it as the TV stand or just having a desk in the living room. This patio has small windows like the dryer and the master bedroom patios. Because that side of the apartment is underground. This is a good thing because it will cut down on the amount of light in the morning, for that reason I'm thinking this should be Maddox's room.

This is the bathroom behind the living room and opposite the previous bedroom.

The tub has indentions for your butt. Just incase you weren't sure where to park it, I guess?

This is the master bedroom (with half of the mattress pad that we got for it, it needs to air out before the other one is placed on top of it). I forgot to get a picture of it, but to the left there are 3 wardrobes, that is where all of our clothes will go. We might have to move one into Maddox's room. The master bath is to the right.

This is the master bath. Kind of small, but at least we have one. There isn't an actual shower, just a shower head and a drain on the floor.

That is it for now. Once Mary and the kids get here we will get some more pictures posted. I hope that everyone enjoyed it!

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