This is a picture tour of my new apartment at The Vistana. It's located immediately adjacent to Christus Santa Rosa and El Mercado downtown, and is currently home to about 32 other tenants and 13 hobos. The objective of the tour is to catch all the Pokemon.
(click on the photos for extra super huge mode.)
So... say you were to walk through the front door of my apartment. It might look something like this.
Excited yet?
If you were to immediately turn around you'd probably then see this.
Nice.
Now supposing, just supposing, you had turned around on a slightly different axis you would have seen this.
My that chair looks pretty relaxing. And a coat rack slash hat holder? Brilliant.
Here's my kitchen. Or at least the part of it I could merge into one photo without it getting all wonky.
That white box has been there for about 2 weeks now. I have absolutely no idea why I have not moved it especially seeing as how it annoys the crap out of me every time I go into the kitchen. The box aside, though, as you can see I have some lovely black appliances to distract from the fact that I don't have a single drawer wide enough to stash my silverware.
Now if you were to keep moving by, say, oh six or eight inches you would now see this.
My kitchen table now sits three, but seeing as that is two more than it typically ever needs to sit that's just fine. Plus one chair has ready access to the dishwasher. Convenience is a must!
Turning 90 degrees to the right and...
My bathroom. With a hangboard on top of it. Does it go there? Probably not. Was there any other place for it? Certainly not.
Inching into the bathroom you see the antrum of the washroom itself.
Phenomenal. The laundry basket may or may not end up being a permanent fixture there depending on whether I can find somewhere else to squeeze a big yellow laundry basket.
A little wider angle now.
So we got some teals, we got some green, some cherry, some tan. Does it work? Maybe a little bit. This is as good as it gets people.
And at the distal end of my washatorium is the toilet.
What a lovely toilet. Unfortunately there was no room for a bidet.
And of course the shower itself.
The pressure is terrible, but I like my new shower mats. I wish more things were made of wood. This apartment would go from "pretty good" status to "pretty great" status pretty easily if there was just more wood. (that's what she said.)
Having completed the bathroom subtour we head back out.
Goodbye bathroom.
Skipping the kitchen we get to the living room/bedroom/office.
Much like the big white box and yellow laundry basket I really do not have the slightest clue as to what to do with the giant fish. As such its place of rest generally rotates between the bed or the couch depending on which I want to use at the time. In other words, its sole purpose at this point is to inconvenience me. I am taking suggestions though.
Now here's the bed/office from a slightly different angle.
You cannot appreciate it, but the bed, desk, and book shelf are pretty much all wedged together. I think it's a masterful use of space. And possibly a fire hazard.
Here's the window.
I am contemplating adding my hanging garden baskets to either end of the window and possibly even screwing in the window baskets below the window itself. Perhaps that will be plant overload, though.
Here's a Psyduck.
And the living room all altogether now.
Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking. The little picture gallery isn't completely done, and, yes, one of the pictures is upside down, but it's pretty spectacular nonetheless. Even from a distance. Note now the hand crafted coffee table constructed from American pine, refurbished couch with throw pillows imported from India, individually blown glass candle holders created in Greece, and a state of the art 19-inch television entertainment center with DVR. Truly this is lofty living indeed.
Quick look back at the kitchen!
Yeah the kitchen light is partially obstructed by the huge metal air conditioning duct -- yet another way in which this place was not designed terribly intelligently -- but too much light just makes bananas go brown anyway.
Here's the kitchen with the lights off!
The picture sucks, but I threw some Christmas lights atop the cabinets seeing as how there's enough space to support a small family of five up there and this is what it looks like. Amazing -- take my word for it.
And done. Didn't think the tour would ever end? I didn't either. There was just so much to see. Man what a blast.
So who got the Jigglypuff? and the Wigglytuff? and the Kookookachu?
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