Move

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After 7 months of searching, we finally found the perfect place to buy, and were lucky enough to be "chosen" by the owner (no housing crisis here.....). It is the top unit in a 2-unit building, a Victorian built in 1900, with really old hardwood floors throughout the flat. So we moved a few weeks ago, and we are really happy in our new flat. It is located only a few blocks away from our old apartment, on the border of the Mission and Castro district, with nice sunny weather, and lots of restaurants and coffee shops. The move went really well thanks to all our friends, and we have enough rooms to store the boxes while we were (and still are) painting. We didn't agree with the previous colors, so decided to give the apartment a little more warmth. So baby blue turned into yellow, red, and even green. This is me taping and painting the bedroom, and sone clumsy paint remains after "kneeing" the wall.....:




It took a few weeks to get the majority done, but we're getting close to the end. Our bedroom, the front (or whiskey.....) room and the first guest room are done. We bought an old radio cabinet to store our alcoholic beverages and put a CD player inside so it looks like it is still working. The fireplace works on natural gas and gets nice and cosy. The paintings over the bed are my mom's...Here are some pictures:





There is a 2nd guest room, 2 bathrooms, a living / dining room and a gigantic kitchen with great appliances, including a wine cooler (!). And a nice patio off the kitchen that leads down to the basement. The ceilings are really high, about 12-13 feet, and the flat has about 1600 square feet (140 m2), which is really nice. The local hardware store already smiles when I walk in again to get some more home improvement necessities..... Ikea has also become our good friend again. I will post some more pictures of the remaining rooms once they are done.