Far overdue, a walking tour of my flat~

[salamanderbones]

On climbing the stairs & coming through the front door we enter the hallway, here we see Sarah hard at work in the distance.


if we turn to the immediate left we can have a peek into the drawing room, where my 'workstation' (hem hem) and the drawing table are located. If we breathe in, we can both draw in here at the same time.


And on the right is the master bedroom, with peculiar wallpaper a legacy from previous tenants. The pillow is slightly pinkened by Sarah's latest 'do.


Next on the left is the bathroom, continuing the black & white damask theme.


At the end of the hallway sitting room. That steely looking ladder-like thing is a useful folding clothes dryer. Behind me & to the immediate left is Sarah's corner office/workstation area (as glimpsed above), so US crime dramas on the TV can provide a comforting static. The kitchen is censored for now because I've been a little remiss in my washing up duties.

It's about a two minute walk from our flat to Brookvale park lake, a former drinking water reservoir. Click for a (big!) panorama view of the lake. Soon I'll try to post again showing you a little about some of the birdlife around here!

I'll also re-iterate my address, now with additional phone number:
Flat 20 Oddingley Court
29 Alwynn Walk
Birmingham
B23 7FL
UK

0121 2404 153
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Comments

[feralkiss]

Do you have moquette in like, every room? Including the bathroom? (This is something that I find absolutely shocking when I discovered in a trip to English back in middle school). :D

[salamanderbones]

Hah, I didn't know the word until I looked it up! Everywhere except the bathroom (which is linoleum or similar) has a kind of unfitted, but cut to size carpet which I think is moquette...the colours are a bit depressing but hopefully it keeps us a bit warmer. I've seen a few older houses with carpeted bathrooms over here, and it always strikes me as a bit gross.

[feralkiss]

Thanks for the reply :P I don't know how you call this in English so I looked it up on Wikipedia and went to the English page from there, hoping that would be the right term...

I guess what had shocked me, and I know it was the same in the whole neighbourhood (it was a school trip, each of us were hosted in a different home in the same London suburb), was that the "moquette" was both extraordinarily thick and that it was present in absolutely every room (including the bathroom and, I think, the kitchen. We found that really strange because of the possibility of "accidents" (spilling water, dropping food, etc) which made us look at that moquette as very anti-hygienic. ^^'

wardrobes

[salamanderbones]

It's my pleasure! Most of the time journalling activities seem really exhausting, so I'm making use of this window of opportunity. And oh, sorry, I must clarify because I'm dull-witted, the kitchen is linoleum floored too...english home design seems to follow a lot of strange fashions like carpeted bathrooms that appear everywhere for a while, then disappear. Indeed, it does seem like a really terrible idea for cleanliness & hygiene.

As another instance, it's hard to see from the photos but there are a lot of huge inbuilt cupboards in this flat--apparently there was a survey or report of some kind decades ago that mentioned people did not have enough storage space, so every property built here in the early sixties was suddenly equipped with enormous wardrobes.