Oct
23
2009

The Apartment

Friday, October 23, 2009 - 07:37:12 am
(Posted Under: Operation Desert Rock)
So I didn't get to get into it much yesterday, and I'm sure there is going to be some interest about it - the apartment.

First off, I can say it's pretty glorious at 7am. All our windows face east, so there is no shortage of the bright desert sun at 7am. With all the blinds closed it's still super bright. I'm down with that!

On getting here yesterday, I was more or less immediately reminded of what sold us on the place - it's as spacious as hell for a one bedroom. That alone made me very glad that we went with this place, rather than the one further south. The layout is a living room, the full width of the apartment when you walk in, then the kitchen and dinning area adjacent to that, again running the full width of the apartment, and then the bedroom and the bathroom at the back.

We've got a huge balcony which makes Katie's old one look tiny. The only downside is that it's a little less private when it comes to our neighbors. But we're going to get some plants, which should sort that out more or less. There's also a storage area out there, but considering that we've got everything put away in the roomy storage areas inside, I'm not sure that we're going to need to us it.

Photobox ImageOne of the nice things is the really big kitchen, which we can both move around in at the same time comfortably, which wasn't true in many of the other apartments we looked at. Added to that is the relatively new and sexy appliances (oven, stove, dishwasher, fridge and microwave), which again, weren't always that nice at the other places we looked. What really blows my load is our huge ass fridge. I am totally in love with it. And I bet it won't ice up on a daily basis! [wink] I've really got to say that this whole American standard of apartments being decked out with appliances thing is pretty fantastic! I also really like the granite counter tops.

Photobox ImageThe size of the bathroom is quite nice, as is the bathroom itself, especially in comparison to some of the ones we saw. The major coop for me however is - a glass shower door / divider. It seems that America has a love affair with shower curtains, which a while ago I declared that I was not going to have once we brought a house. I'd resided to the fact that I was going to have to live with one for a while when we moved into an apartment. The fact that we don't is just glorious to me!

Our parking spot is right outside of the apartment. The one downside is that the hallway entrance doesn't face the parking lot and is segregated with a small fence, which would be a bit more convenient if you could walk right out to the car. Needless to say, yesterday's unpacking saw us handing all our stuff over the fence to take it upstairs rather than walking it around. Unlike Katie's time at Meridian Corners (which is now 'Haven Luxury Apartments' - a change that had started when I was here in 2006 - they'd already changed the sign out the front. And from what we've heard / read, doesn't actually live up to it's name), this complex has carports, which is nice that we get to shelter Pepe from the harsh desert sun. And additional the complex is gated.

The exterior of the apartments is the obvious Tempe standard - brown adobe / stucko, which again works for me a lot. The one strange thing about the apartment, which is so far from an issue during the day, is that it barely has any light fixtures. Katie noticed it when we were first here. There's a light in the kitchen, one in the ceiling fan in the dinning area, one in the bathroom and that is it. None in the living area nor bedroom, which is really weird for me. Hence our looking at lamps last night at Ikea! While we haven't brought any yet, the lamps Katie had in storage were enough to get us through last night.

And so that's our apartment in a nutshell. I'll update this with some photos later today.

Edit: Here they are...

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