Home Tour

Until such a time you truly visit me in the flesh, forthwith is the best tour I can offer of my current home:

Now you have finally arrived at the entrance to my actual abode, so let's enter.

 Looking into the apartment from the hallway.

From inside the apartment looking back toward the door leading out of the apartment.

On one side of the entry is a guest room (I've begun laying out stuff on the bed in preparation for a Thanksgiving trip to Borneo) and on the other is a bathroom.

Next comes the kitchen/dining area:

That's the laundry area out there to the left.

Then there's this "middle" area between the kitchen/dining area and the living room.  On one wall are storage closets and then I have a step tanzu on the other wall.

And my living room is definitely spacious.

 (My reading papa-san chair--comfy and good light for old eyes!)

Pretty pitiful--so I've been informed more than once.  Supposedly this wall needs a more authentic BIG screen kind of TV.  But apparently, I have a serious proclivity to spend available moneys on traveling rather than TVs.  (In addition to both cable and Internet connections, this wall has abundant outlets--both 110 and 220 volts--so lots of things hitch up easily here!)

My bedroom lies behind this wall, its doorway adjacent to that basket at the left-hand side of the above photo.  To the right--using the above photo also as a reference--is a door to an enclosed balcony (most are enclosed in Seoul) that edges my bedroom.

 The first door, just past my bed, leads to an office (of which there are no photos at this time because it continues as my "denial room" and total sacrilege) and the next one (dark) is the master bathroom.  The closed doors at the left lead to a walk-in closet.

A built-in vanity and a partial view of the interior of the walk-in closet.

Here is the master bathroom:

I have one more bedroom located behind the kitchen, but I use it more as a library/den.

All the bedrooms have awesome closets, and this photo shows the room with closet doors open.

And this concludes the pictorial tour.  Notes and disclaimers follow below:

• I shall openly confess to a sublime partiality for the color blue. 
• Quite an assembly of framed pieces do not yet adorn the walls of this dwelling because I have yet to undersand how to secure them onto most of those vertical planes; past practices have largely failed me so far.
• A cleaning lady (every two weeks) somehow is included in the rent for this establishment, and I feel immense gratitude for her labors in keeping my glass-enclosed showers so clean and shiny.
• And yes, that is a water cooler (it has a spigot to dispense very hot water, too) you may have sighted in a few photos.  Technically tap water is "safe," but it is also rife with chemicals to make it "safe."  Delivery of bottled water for drinking is included with the rent. Happily, I have mastered the techniques necessary for hoisting those huge--and, may I add, HEAVY--replacement bottles onto the dispenser.