a pantry with adequate shelving and a stove w/ oven (this was a huge plus as it meant we did not have to buy one). The apartment has one and a half bathrooms, two bedrooms and a large living room with a sliding glass door that opens out to a small patio. There is also a back door that leads to a small outdoor area enclosed with high cement walls -- the perfect spot for a grill, if we ever get one. Instead, the washing machine lives out there. Yes, outside...somewhat of a problem when it rains...
Our first order of business was to establish power and water, sign the lease, and then go out and buy appliances and furniture. Shanthi, who arrived two days earlier than I (foreshadowing for future installments of The Clove Saga), had already taken care of all but appliance shopping by the time I arrived and had also managed to get us both mobile phones.
Over the course of the first week, we purchased and took delivery of:
A refrigerator/freezer, a washing machine, a double bed and mattress, a desk, a nightstand, a dining table, four chairs, plates, bowls, mugs, glasses, pots, frying pans, cooking utensils, knives, a tea kettle, a toaster, an iron, dish rack, bathroom mat, cleaning supplies, groceries, duvet and duvet cover, etc. We started with an empty house and ended up, at the end of the week, with something we could more or less call a home.
Next we had to get curtains for the windows. Because the windows and glass doors were all unconventional in size, we ended up buying fabric and having these made. The tailor did a pretty terrible job sewing the curtains and all but one of them were too short for the windows. We hung them anyway. At that point, we were too tired to go through the process again. As you can see, one set of curtains was so short that we had to hang them from a curtain rod that was itself hung from the proper curtain rod!
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