Virtual tour of our apartment

It has been three weeks since we moved into the new apartment. Here is a picture of the exterior. Will take pictures of the interior when all the boxes are unpacked!

The apartment building is a four-plex, 2 lower unit and two upper unit, we are on the lower unit on the left. There is a detached covered garage on the left, one parking lot for each unit. It's a two bedroom apartment with about 1200 square feet of space. We like the walk-in closet and the abundance of build-in storage in this apartment! We now have plenty of room to store all the stockpile and keep our mess concealed. :-)

The front of the apartment building.

Another view of the apartment building from the mail boxes.

Each apartment gets a mail box. Most houses here are not fenced, but our neighbor had "privacy" fence (see behind the mail boxes)

The front porch, entrance to the apartment building.

Our doorway, and steps leading to our upstairs neighbors. Our apartment is actually a few steps below the ground (Which is cooler in the summer)

The laundry room. It's the room behind the stairs in the picture, which is in between two apartments.

There is no washer/dryer hook up inside the apartment, so we have to store away our own washer and dryer in the garage temporarily. This coin operated washer and dryer are provided by the landlord. We share with the neighbor on the ground floor, the other two neighbors upstairs have the similar setup.

Another room next to the laundry room. Look nice and neat outside.

That's how it looks inside, quite a mess! The landlord provides and maintains the water softener.

The Kitchen. Pretty standard, kitchen cabinets with oven, stove, exhaust fan, refrigerator, dish washer, and double kitchen sinks built-in. No garbage disposal nor copper sinks. :-)

Kitchen cabinets are boons for disorganized messy people, all the "stuffs" are tucked away in the cabinets, what you don't see. :-)

The hallway. Master bedroom and bathroom on the right, second bedroom, linen closet and storage closets on the left.

The bathroom.

Laundry and cleaning supplies stash under the sinks in the bathrooms
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Paper products stash in the storage closets.

The walk-in closet inside the master bedroom.

Did I tell you I love this closets that keep the mess concealed behind the closed doors? :-)

We bought a 2002 Kia Sedona

We found the mini van on craiglist and drove down to Oak Park in Chicago to view it last week. Then we got the mechanic to inspect it this Wed. The mechanic confirmed that there is no evident mechanical problem with the car. We just need to replace some parts as schedule .and they are not expensive as Ferrari parts! After T signed the papers and paid the seller with a cashier check. I drove the Toyota Camry and T drove this baby home!

It was 50 miles one way to go down to Oak Park. Driving home on highway I-88 was rather stressful and tiring I have not driven much on highways with fast moving commuters. The commuters crowd just got off work and the highways were quite packed, though the traffics was nothing like the kind of bumper to bumper traffics in KL/PJ!