New Apartment Tour

Hello! Today's the day Alicia and I finished cleaning and took some pictures. Delays were caused by a lost camera, non-working internet connection, and mostly a big mess. But! Let's start the tour! Above each picture will be a description of what you're seeing.


Here's a picture of the front door. This is one floor above our previous apartment.




As we enter the kitchen, you might notice the size difference. The new apartment isn't actually bigger than the old place down stairs, but all the main rooms have had their size expanded. We lost a second bedroom, but we gained a much bigger kitchen.



Here's the kitchen in it's full glory. The big black bookcase now functions as our kitchen storage. All our plates and random knick-knacks are stored in the black cubbies. The sink is hiding to the right of the fridge, the bathroom to the left.



Ah ha! Here's the sink. One thing that's shocked us about the kitchen is how much storage space we haven't used yet. Downstairs, we packed every square inch with our kitchen supplies. Up here, you can see that the second shelf above the sink is practically empty.



Here's one of our windows leading to the bathroom. You can see the fire escape through it. It's kinda a pain in the butt to get through the window and sit out on the fire escape, but it's extremely nice once you're out there.



Our bathroom is relatively small, but it no longer resembles a hallway. One can turn around, get dressed, and many other things people tend to do in a bathroom. The sink was added at our request. The man who put it in actually had to tear out the wall and floor to run new pipes. The black tile is brand new, as when he went to repair the tile, it wasn't possible to match the old yellow tile.

The flooring was laid down by me. It's vinyl flooring that came in a roll. I slowly trimmed it down using a utility knife, then glued it down to the cement and tile underneath. Alicia went around the edge with caulk, finishing the job. I also built that wooden structure you see next to the toilet. It covers a bunch of ugly pipes and provides a shelf. I built it out of wood left by the previous tenants. It's actually the wooden slabs that hold up an Ikea bed. Lastly, we bought the mirror/shelf at Ikea. It was on sale, and looks awesome!



We're turning around and heading towards the living room now.



But first, here's a shot of the front door. It's the new home of the whiteboard and pin board. I should mention that the Taco Bell dog on the shelf in the wall is on temporary display. We still haven't decided what should go in those shelves.



Through the doorway now, you can see the left side of the room. I'm extremely proud of this area of the apartment. In our previous unit, we never had any spread out space. To make ourselves feel better, we tried to keep this room as quiet as we could. Hopefully, we'll keep the dining table empty: it looks so good that way.



Here's a look up. The white globes on the left are from Ikea (of course). Before moving in, this room had the worst lighting in the apartment. When it got dark, the one ceiling light just couldn't handle making the room filled with light. Those globes do the trick.
The black shelves on the right aren't new, but are a good home for display items we never need to touch. The wall of art is still a work in progress. Someday, we'll have that ceiling filled. The hope is that it contrasts all the other nearly blank walls in the room.



Here's a look back at the kitchen. You can see my old coffee table is still the entertainment center. There just isn't room for a big coffee table in Brooklyn. But Jeeves and the Poang chair from Ikea make a great couple.



Through to the bedroom now. The closet on the left holds almost all our storage junk. It's really crammed full.



Here's Leela on the bed. She spends a good 22 hours out of the day on that bed. One of the biggest perks of moving to this apartment is that the bed doesn't need to be against the wall. The room is actually wide enough to allow access to the bed from both sides. The bedroom is actually the biggest room in the apartment.



Ikea has almost exclusively furnished this bedroom. The bed matches the two Hopen wardropes, which matches the Hopen Dresser. We even have the two Hopen sidetables for the bed. I don't think I've ever been so coordinated in my life. The wardropes are actually 100% great, as this bedroom has no closet. I suppose we'd have to use the closet in the hallway.



Here's the newest addition to our furniture. They are bookcases (guess from where) holding every book we own. We would have preferred the orange chair next to the book cases, but the desk needed somewhere to live. The living room felt way to comfortable to stuff a desk into, so we opted to have a bedroom/office. Having giant bookcases to hold all of Alicia's books has always been a dream for her, so she has been ecstatic about them.



Well, that's the end of the tour. But what tour of the Glaser/Copeland apartment would be complete without pictures of the kitties?

Here's Leela, our newest cat:



This is Livia being camera shy:



Thanks for coming on the tour. Y'all come back real soon, ya hear?