Wait, didn't I post
an entry very similar to this one, like, four months ago? Why yes, I did. But since I so kindly welcomed you to
that apartment, I thought I had better welcome you to this one.
Our new apartment is inside what many people in town call "the bank," as (apparently) the property used to belong to Banque Populaire. It is now called the "Al Akhawayn downtown residences." Most of the building contains small apartments (they're basically studio apartments), but on the ground floor there are four duplex apartments, and we now live in one of them.
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| Our apartment is "special" in comparison to the other, similar apartments because we have an entryway with floor-to-ceiling closets and a cool little decorative shelf area. I still have no idea what I'm going to put on the shelves. Ideas, anyone? Cheap ideas, I mean… Remember that I am unemployed. |
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| This is the downstairs bathroom, mentioned in a previous blog entry because of its sewage smell. A visit from the plumber this morning seems to have taken care of that problem. I am cautiously optimistic. |
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| After walking through the entryway, you'll turn right into our ridiculously large living room with Moroccan-style couches. You can just barely see our Christmas tree in the corner. It is borrowed from the University Christian community, and it currently has only five ornaments hanging on it. It looks quite sad. |
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| We had to sacrifice the nice view that we had in our previous apartment. Our living room is on the ground floor and looks out at a wall. |
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| The living room/dining room/kitchen are all one room. T and I like this style. And we are super excited to have a grown-up sized refrigerator again. |
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| To get to the bedroom, the office, and the main bathroom, you have to go up a ridiculously long staircase – it has 21 stairs. |
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| This is the office/yoga room/guest bedroom. The sofa that you see next to my desk pulls out into a bed. |
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| This is the view from our office window. The trees are actually quite pleasant, and yesterday a small bird briefly flew into our office through this window. |
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WOW!!! This looks palatial. :) Love, love, LOVE the Moroccan style couches!!! Any day I get to design/ remodel a place of my own, I'm going to have Moroccan style couches in every single room except the kitchen and bathroom. And there are going to be lots of books and cats(surprise!!) on the Moroccan style couches.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see your "adult" 'fridge :)
JABS:
ReplyDeleteHas the new place in any way changed your perspective of your new locale?
Not yet, although it is now much easier to go to the marche, get fresh bread from the bakery (practically across the street), etc.
ReplyDeleteIt just looks like home to me!
ReplyDeleteI like! Your apartment is very charming. I also like the Moroccan-style couches. Very chic. The kitchen area also is just lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that the floors (and, if memory serves, the floors in your last apartment) are all that hard... tile? Would you call that tile? It's obviously very familiar, but I think here we see it in schools and hospitals and other public buildings. Presumably, it is easy to clean. But here, most apartments are carpeted, so it's interesting to see the different choice of flooring. Is that typical Morocco?