My apartment

Welcome to my second posting, everyone! And as the title says, this is going to be about my new apartment. The building I live in was recently given the name of "La Palace 5" and I can attest that it deserves that title :-) The floors have marble tiles on them, the furniture is quite comfortable and the owner really is trying to make the place into something worthy of living in.

To start with, here's what it looks like as you come into my apartment, #204:

This is the dining/living room. To me, it looks like something from a hotel room, but the longer I live here, the more I'll make it my own!

Here are two closer views of the living room. For those who know the TV I had in Montreal, take a good look at what I have now, which also has satellite cable:

As you come into my new home, on the left is the kitchen:

The kitchen is actually large enough to have a small table and chair set, but I prefer the more formal set in the open living area - closer to the flat screen TV ;-)

This is how small the washing machine/dryer combo is:

The drum can hold a bedsheet, a shirt and maybe a couple of pairs of underwear and that's about all! The washer takes about an hour, but the dryer can take up to two hours to get things nearly dry. The longest cycle is the cool down, which lasts forever and can't be skipped if you use the dryer function!

And on the right side when you enter my place, there's the powder room:

I haven't had the chance to make it more welcoming, but I did turn off the bidet water hose function on the side as I've been told by others who've lived here for awhile that the water tank feeding the hose can explode, gushing water all over the place!

There's a hallway leading to the main bathroom, guest bedroom and mistress bedroom. The main bathroom looks like this:

As you can see, there's an actual bidet in the main bathroom, and I've also turned off the water supply to that, just in case! I'm really paranoid about finding a foot of water everywhere in my place when I get home from work...

And this is the bathtub. Can you spot what's missing for the shower?

Maybe it's hard to tell with the door on the right, but there's no shower curtain! It's very hard to find a shower rod that fits this space, as it needs to form an L-shape. There are holes in the walls where another tenant has attached a rod, so it CAN be done. It's just a question of me finding the right shower rod on one of my many shopping trips!

And then there's the guest bedroom. Right now I use it more as a place to hang the laundry and store all the empty boxes from the small appliances I've bought, but if anyone comes to visit, I promise the room will be much nicer than this:

And here's the mistress bedroom. I've made it more personal mostly by casting my jewelry all over the top of the vanity. It actually has a stool! This bedroom is actually much smaller than the guest bedroom, but I prefer that because it's cosier.

And finally, just to prove to you that this is where I'm living, here's me this morning, doing a household chore:

And that's it from me for today. I hope you enjoyed this look at my new home. I will eventually take some photos of the outside area around my apartment building, but for the moment, it's just too hot and humid!! The forecast has been the same every day since I got here: sunny, hot and humid, with a temperature of 43 or 44 degrees celsius, with a humidex of about 50 degrees celsius. So you'll forgive me for not going out into the sunshine just to take photos ;-)