| Our First Apartment
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| Em and I will always have fond memories of
this, our first apartment. Em found it and we enjoyed over
3 happy years within its walls. We especially liked the
great sunny, southern exposure and open layout of the kitchen
and living room. During our time here Em walked to work
and I rode my bike to Bart.
Creating the plan view required the following
multi-step process:
1) draw the plan view in Excel
2) copy the drawing and 'Paste Special' into Word
as an 'Enhanced Metafile'
3) copy the drawing from Word and paste into FrontPage and save
as a gif file |
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| Our balcony is on the right side and on the 2nd
floor. One thing I really liked about our apartment was
the outstanding southern exposure. Even on the coldest
days of winter we rarely turned on the heat and if we did it was
only for a few hours. |
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| Our bedroom as viewed from the closet. Note Em's wine
rack / night stand. We both really like our IKEA bed and
the associated reading lights that clamp to the headboard. |
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| Another view of our bedroom looking towards to door and
into the closet. All the clutter on the dresser and the
lower 3 shelves of the bookcase belongs to Em. The bicycle
tires behind the door are mine. |
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| Our bathroom sink is separated from the toilet and
tub/shower by a sliding door, an arrangement which I grew to
like. The tub was not deep enough for proper soaking. |
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| The hallway leads to our living room which is open to the
kitchen and dining area. We are both huge fans of combined
kitchen / living / dining rooms. When we bought the sofa
on Craigslist the seller threw in a brand new microwave. |
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| A view of our two dining room tables from the perspective
of the television. For dinner parties we would arrange the
tables end to end instead of side to side, as shown above. |
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| Our tiny kitchen. Some say they were amazed at the
good stuff that came out of here. The speed rack, in front
of the refrigerator, was found Hopkins Street just above
Monterey Market. We modified it so that it fits half size
sheet pans rather than the odd ball medium size pans that no one
uses. |
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