Nouveau apartement

Bienvenue to my new home!Today we moved into our new apartment. Well, it's not actually new. It was built sometime in the early 1800's.

Doug supervised the move in of all our stuff. The day before I went through the inventory list of all our stuff and planned out which boxes would go in which room. So when the guys came in with a box, Doug would check the list and have the men place it in the appropriate room. I guess the people didn't want to haul the stuff up a few flights of stairs, or take elevator trips, so there was a crane out front with a container and they lifted up our stuff to the window of the living room, and brought it all in that way. Unfortunately Doug didn't get any pictures of the process. Oh well. It's probably cooler in my imagination. I love organizing things and I look forward to making sure everything is in its place. I do realize, though, just how much kitchen stuff I have when I see it all over the counters and filling up the shelves. I didn't even bring it all here to France. Oh well. It's a good obsession to have (kitchen stuff that is).

So you're probably wondering what it looks like. The 10 foot ceilings make it seem absolutely huge although it's probably pretty close to the square footage we had in the townhouse in the States.

There is a big foyer (the size of a small bedroom) and it enters into the living room. There is a formal dining room off to the right and the kitchen to the left. I did not want to march across the entire living room to the dining table, so the room formally known as the dining room is now known as the family room with the couch, TV, and fooseball table. We put the dining table in the living room in front of the fireplace, and the other half of the room will be a sitting area (for which I will go shopping for new furniture in the near future!) There is a master suite with a master bathroom and 3 other bedrooms, 2 more toilets, and two other bathrooms. Here is the breakfast area and then the kitchen. I'm still trying to figure out where to put things.

Boy's rooms.Anyway, the detail in this place is amazing. There is crown molding everywhere and not your normal crown molding either. There are carved pillars on the walls, arched doorways, and hardwood floors. And mirrors all over the place. In fact there are mirrors opposite each other in the living rooms and you can see into the eternal mirrors. We can also see the top of the Eiffel Tower all lit up at night from our balcony. It is so beautiful. It sparkles on the hour in the evening.

Carving over doors in family room (formally known as the dining room)

Carving over fireplace in living room.Foyer. There are these little pillars all over in the foyer.
Master bedroom.

But, the "piece de resistance" is the master bathroom.
I call it the "blue room". There are a grand total of 9 mirrors in this bathroom alone. The gardienne (the woman that oversees the building) told us that this bathroom was specifically created for the coiffeur (hairstylist) of Napoleon III. I checked out Napoleon III on wikipedia and he had an impressive moustache and beard so maybe the cioffeur was pretty special. Anyway, it's mine now.

Of course the boy's bathroom is pretty nice as well. Nicer than I've ever had and now 3 little boys get to use it. It has a heated towel rack. And a very deep tub as well.


I hope you enjoyed the tour. Thank you for keeping your arms and hands inside at all times. Come again another time. Have a nice day. Bye bye now. (said with a cheesy smile and a Miss America hand wave)