The Grand Tour

Wow, what a week! I haven't been able to post because I've been putting in fifteen hour days at the school - - - More on that later!



Back to the grand house tour I said I'd post. The house I am living in is one unit in a tri-plex which was built in the former elementary school. All of the units have very strange layouts, but are fairly spacious (mine especially). In them are a mix of normal, average furniture (a couple of dressers, couch, etc.) and then some very odd pieces that have obviously been brought over from the school.



As you walk in the main door you look right into the bathroom. But first, I tried to make the entry area right inside the door a little welcoming and purposeful. I took a multi-drawered thing and put it across from the door to hold the hats, scarves and gloves that I will soon need on a daily basis. Then I took a wood shelf unit and made it into the place to hold all my very muddy shoes and boots.   Because of the constant rain in Toksook, the streets are thick with mud.

 

Straight ahead as you walk in is the bathroom – then turning to the right is a long corridor off of which is the kitchen. 

It is nice and new with lots of counter and cabinet space. There is also a big pantry room with an extra full upright freezer and lots of shelving (one obviously being an old metal school book shelf!). 



At the end of this long corridor, I made a little eating area to grab my morning breakfast. 

Turning left from the breakfast table, straight ahead is my bedroom.

 To the right – a dining room with a very new slate-topped dining table.



To the left of the dining area is another long corridor that is my living room.  It has my “filtered view” of the ocean (as I look past one boarded up house and about a dozen others in not much better shape).  The odd door with the metal panic bar is a remnant from the old school days.  I have a brown curtain on its way to hide that lovely item.

"Filtered" Ocean View from Living Room Windows

The living room is so long that I was able to create a little work space at the end for my projects (since I always have something going on in that regards  - right now it’s crocheting, but will usually be a quilting project).  Who else can claim to have a school-grade kidney-shaped table in their home??

At the end of the living room is another door into a smaller bedroom.  That is my “office” and storage area for all the tubs I used to get everything here.


View from Office Window

And that is where I live –1200 square feet in all its glory!  Not too shabby!